Open Sourcerers
An interview with my colleagues Marcel Hild and Robert Bohne on new ways to apply Open Source principles to operating software. Ingo: Hello Robert, hello Marcel! Nice to have you here! And today we have an interesting topic “operate first” and I’m very curious what that really means. So, Marcel and Robert, please introduce […]
As Kubernetes gets more and more adopted, the need for tools to manage diverse and widespread installations grows. Red Hat’s answer to that challenge is Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM). Its range of features is divided into four main areas, which can also easily be seen in its UI (Note: The Screenshots […]
We explore Open Source as a Strategic Framework and how it is genuinely addressing Digital Sovereignty at various levels
Part I of II – Exploring the Digital Sovereignty narrative Motivation and authority on the matter For 3 decades I have been into Enterprise IT, designing, implementing and maintaining solutions at various layers of the “Digital Stack”. I did so always with a full life cycle perspective in mind and have lived and learned through […]
Being a life-long techie, I’ve been working with the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) model for over 30 years in various organisations and it is a tried and tested model on which all modern networks are based. I’ve also worked to secure each layer to ensure that communication and data transfer mechanisms conform to the well […]
Part 3 of the article series on automated application packaging and distribution. This time about integrating into Kubernetes Native Pipelines with OpenShift Pipelines (Tekton)
Photo by NASA on Unsplash In the first part of the article “Many roads lead to RHEL” we were discussing the possibility of doing an in-place Upgrade instead of redeploying a new RHEL machine when switching to a new major version of RHEL. We also touched on the reasons why it does make sense to […]
If the COVID-19 epidemic taught us one lesson, then it is how dependent we are on data exchange over the internet. Just think back to yourself, how did you pass by 2020/2021? How did you exchange data with service providers or your employer? How did you entertain yourself while being under lock down or how […]
The idea behind this article comes from a discussion I had regarding the question, what approach shall I take if I want to go to the newest Version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) but am not able to redeploy everything from scratch. Well, one thing to consider is doing an in-place upgrade to a […]
Introduction In this article series we are going to build together a sample cloud-native IoT architecture, called Bobbycar, based on the Red Hat OpenShift Container platform and a lot of other relevant technologies. The first part of the series should provide you with the necessary background on IoT-, Edge- and Cloud Computing and also briefly […]