Xander Soldaat

Xander Soldaat started his Linux journey back in 1994 with a sports bag full of floppy disks, a 486DX2/66 and a spare weekend. He has a deep background in IT infrastructure architecture, as well as embedded, systems, compiler, and STEM curriculum development. He is currently an OpenShift Cloud Success Architect at Red Hat.In his spare time he likes to tinker with robots, electronics, retro-computers and table-top games.

OpenShift Local or Single Node OpenShift

Are you a developer or just a curious individual who wants to dip their toes in the Cloud, but are not sure whether to go for OpenShift Local or Single Node OpenShift? You’ve come to the right place. In this article, I will explore the differences and similarities between these two variants of OpenShift, so […]

The importance of getting resource requests and limits right.

Problem Summary At the start of spring 2022, I was asked to assist in untangling a very escalated set of related cases with one of our customers. Their cluster had been experiencing stability issues over a period of several months. Initial analyses by support seemed to suggest resource problems, in particular insufficient memory. There were […]