DevOps

 While you’ve seen the many developer tooling articles where I’ve helped you to get started on the OpenShift Container Platform, there is still a basic need to run our tooling locally on our own machine. With that in mind, here’s an update that installs the latest process automation tooling for your development projects in just minutes on your very own ...

For some time now we’ve been working on updating your experience using Code Ready Containers, a container platform installation for your local machine, by providing interesting developer tooling and project examples. There is no better way to learn about container technologies, container platforms, and container-based application development than getting hands-on with great open technologies. This example is the latest version ...

For some time now we’ve been working on updating your experience using Code Ready Containers, a container platform installation for your local machine, by providing interesting developer tooling and project examples. There is no better way to learn about container technologies, container platforms, and container-based application development than getting hands-on with great open technologies. The first example here is the ...

It’s been awhile since I’ve talked about running OpenShift Container Platform on your local machine. This mean a container platform at your finger tips, one you can experience the joys of cloud native development and automated rolling deployments. Since I started pulling together ways to easily experience this with OpenShift Container Platform, back with version 3.3 believe it or not, ...

Docker compose is making for me wonders when it comes to run some simple components on my workstation. Spawning and simulating an infrastructure locally is fast and takes no time. Also it is lightweight. However most teams nowadays use Kubernetes.If you want to simulate a Kubernetes environment locally the tool to use is Minikube. With Minikube you need to have ...

Number 4 in my Che series… a quick guide for using Minishift, in order to test drive Che 7 or Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces. If you’re not running Windows as your host OS, your mileage may vary in terms of memory requirements and preferred virtual machine driver, but the suggestions below should work on most OSes… even the one with ...

Number 5: deploying Che 7 behind a firewall (air gap environment) using chectl –che-operator-cr-yaml=… Deploying Che 7 with custom images Unlike  Deploying Che 7 to Minishift 1.34+, this doc will explain how to do an Eclipse Che 7 deployment with a custom resource yaml file to override the images used in the deployment. This process can be used for many things, ...

I really like Kubernetes; I’ve been following almost since its inception 5 years ago and used it successfully in the past 3+ years in several projects. It isn’t without challenges (esp. around managing state) but it definitely getting better with each release. Moving to a new company, it is no wonder I introduced Kubernetes into our architecture from the get-go. ...

This is going to be a small post since it has to deal with kubernetes and secrets. Yet it is a very useful once since adding secrets is so common yet so easy to forget (guilty as charged). So we will cover username and password, key/values, file uploading, secrets. Upload username and password using command line. kubectl create secret generic ...