DevOps

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 ...

Context I have been working in a team where we use kubernetes in production (not the nginx example- the real shit) for 2 years now. I have configured and used Kubernetes clusters from version 1.4.x with tools like kube-aws to 1.6-1.7 configured with kops. Amazon’s EKS is the third breed of kubernetes provisioning solutions that I have the chance to try and this post ...

It’s been some time since we talked about putting JBoss BPM Suite into your cloud and with the new product release it’s time to talk AppDev in the Cloud again. It’s time to update the story and show you how to put Red Hat Process Automation Manager in your cloud. With this easy installation demo project you’re able to leverage process automation ...

It’s been some time since I last talked with you about business logic engines and using them in your application development cloud architecture. At that time, I showcased running JBoss BRMS in a container on OpenShift Container Platform (OCP). This gives you the cloud experience, one that’s portable across private and public clouds, but on your own local laptop.     ...