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A Guide to Seamless Connectivity in OpenShift and OKD In today’s rapidly evolving technological landscape, the integration of complex architectures into our systems is becoming more prevalent than ever. One of these challenges is to consolidate a multi-cloud architecture into a true hybrid cloud one. In this blog post we will delve into the motivations, solutions, and considerations […]
Introduction As a Solution Architect for Red Hat’s ecosystem, I talk to many independent software vendors (ISVs) about modernizing their applications to enable hybrid cloud and edge strategies. Linux, containers, Kubernetes and micro-services architecture are a default choice nowadays in many new application development projects. But sometimes you can not get rid of some dependencies […]
What is Software Supply Chain Security ? In this day and age most of us are looking for trust and security. This is also true for our IT infrastructure as challenges from the outside grow more and more dangerous to the continuation of undisturbed business. Attacks on the IT infrastructure of companies not only rise […]
tl;dr To ensure application consistency for distributed (multi hybrid) cloud environments, streamline your target platform from the bottom up. This helps you dealing with the Moving Target Platform Dilemma (MTPD). As mentioned in the previous article, using the SaaS Kubernetes (K8s) offerings from cloud providers (such as EKS, AKS, GKS) causes your application services to […]
tl;dr You want to gain flexibility by leveraging the K8s offerings from multiple hyperscalers (“cloud providers”) for your application. You gain a bunch of inflexibility by assuring your application behaves equally on all these K8s target platforms. I remember the days as a Java developer when we had to ensure our applications (quite often pre-Spring […]