AI and its hype, some recommendations for reading

Lately we have been seeing many things around AI and most prominently was the advent of ChatGPT, which brought AI within the average person’s viewpoint. Also here on OpenSourcerers we have had some articles around AI and ML lately, just scroll down through the list (one entry point is also linked also below).. What I’m […]

How to secure microservice applications with role-based access control? (7/7)

Foto Source: Darrel Und (www.pexels.com) Option: Service Mesh We have already introduced many different options how to secure micro-service applications based on roles (RBAC). In the last part of this series, we will explore how to use a Service Mesh for RBAC. For the implementation of the Service Mesh we are using the Open Source […]

How to secure microservice applications with role-based access control? (6/7)

Option: API Gateway Foto Source: Jeswin Thomas (www.pexels.com) In the last blog “OpenID Connect & Keycloak (part 5), we have described how a 3rd party component (Keycloak) can provide intermediary services for trust and security. Amongst others, keycloak takes care of the generation and configuration of the JWT token. The good thing: As all involved […]

How to set up and demonstrate Quarkus GrumpyCat GitOps demo

Read this manual if you want to setup and demonstrate (or otherwise use) all the mechanisms of Quarkus GrumpyCat. First of all GrumpyCat is a micro services based multi player game, which you can use to demonstrate and play a nice PacMan / FatCat like game. But with this demo you can also easily demonstrate the benefits of using the GitOps principles for developing and deploying a bigger application.

KubeCon Trip Report

As a computer scientist, I think the best thing about our job is clearly the need to keep up with the latest technological achievements. Depending on the specific area you work in, you can actually always be sure that the solutions to challenges are constantly changing. Kubernetes is no different in that regard. Let’s find […]