Marco Klaassen

My name is Marco.

My passion is the development of complex software architectures, to enable companies and their developers to build scalable and high-performance software.

New technologies and open source making it possible to solve complex problems in the simplest way - they inspire me.

In my free time I like to go flying. My vacations are usually spent in the mountains to go skiing or hiking.


Advanced JBoss EAP Logging with rsyslog: Using TCP and Custom Handlers

This blog post provides a detailed look at using TCP for log forwarding, leveraging custom handlers, and managing container-specific logs. Everything is also documented in this Github repository: https://github.com/marcoklaassen/jboss-eap-rsyslog. Centralized logging is essential for monitoring and troubleshooting in distributed enterprise systems. JBoss EAP, a robust application server platform, can integrate seamlessly with rsyslog for centralized […]

Full Stack Cloud Native Application: A Feedback Form

Introduction This article is a step by step example, how to develop, build and deploy a cloud native application with its infrastructure components. This cloud native application uses OpenShift as the underlying application platform with following features:  The use case is a feedback form, where users can give their feedback. The repositories for this application […]

Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security with OpenShift Pipelines and Slack Integration

Summary This article describes the installation of Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security (RHACS) using the Operator. It also covers the integration of Tekton Pipelines for the deployment of two different containers and the configuration of a Slack notification. A special feature here is that the installation and configuration is largely automated by scripts and can […]

Container Days 2021 – Hamburg

Finally, the time has come. The first personal event after Corona. The Container Days 2021 were just around the corner. Right on time for the start of the event, the location presented itself from its best side. It was rainy. At the latest now it was clear: I’m in the north of Germany, on the […]