Now let’s face it, what the heck is OpenStack and where might it be useful?

My name is Wolfgang, I’ve been with Red Hat since 2019 and I started with IT in 2001 only to experience, just 2 years later, that we can use ONE physical server to deploy MANY Operating Systems! At that time we deployed our very first VMware vSphere cluster at a timber merchant in Trier, a […]

Automated Application Packaging and Distribution With OpenShift – Basic Development Principles – Part 1/4

Part 1/4 discusses basic development principles with Kubernetes and gets deeper into Kustomize and OpenShift Templates.

From Enterprise Architecture as a Strategy to Business Infrastructure as a Platform – Part II of II

It is still about you: 
We want to expand our view from the discussed question in Part I on:
How you can ensure that you establish a good, long term strategy for your business
to:
how to build a solid foundation that matches your individual business model, providing just the right level of standardisation & Freedom in implementing business processes and IT.

Now, In part II We’ll Extend and finalise the framework, that intends to help you how a Business-IT Platform could look like with focus to to adjust your individual investments in that area to the optimal level.

Six months being an Open Sourcerer

How we came here Everyday we get in touch with the hottest trends in IT, try out thrilling (new) Open Source projects, and hear from our customers about the business perspective on technology. This has been happening for years now. We realized that all this knowledge and experience was more or less distributed across our […]

Happy Easter from the Open Sourcerers Team!

Picture by Annie Spratt on Unsplash Today is Easter Monday and the Open Sourcerers Team wants to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy Easter. We do hope that even in our current situation you can find the opportunity to enjoy this holiday and recharge your batteries in the midst of family and […]

Sneak peek into Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA)

Introduction Back in May of 2020, Red Hat and Amazon Web Services announced a jointly supported, fully managed Red Hat OpenShift offering that is natively integrated into AWS. Since the announcement in November of 2020, customers had the opportunity to get their hands on the preview version of Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA). […]

Accessing a remote CodeReady Containers installation with macOS

This blog entry explains how to access a remotely installed CodeReady Containers (CRC) on your macOS client box. What is CRC CodeReady Containers (CRC) is a tool to install an OpenShift 4.x single node cluster easily on your local machine to quickly test things out without having to get access to any externally hosted OpenShift […]

10 years of Cloud Computing in a nutshell

In two weeks time I will be with Red Hat for already 8 years. Even before joining Red Hat, I have been deeply involved in all things cloud at Sun Microsystems for many years. So I thought, now might be a good time to reflect on what has been happening in Cloud Computing in the […]

Cloud Native AppDev without Tears – Using odo to Boost your Workflow

Traditionally application development and deployment across environments has been very tedious and error prone. For example in the Java world you would work with different packaging formats such as ears, wars and jars each with environment specific configuration usually dispersed all over the place. Then your app might behave differently on each operating system due […]

Building a simple contextual chatbot with Rasa and OpenShift Pipelines

Introduction Conversational AI, which is a set of technologies that enable intelligent virtual assistants (IVA) like chatbots to interact with users, gained a lot of popularity in recent years. The potential use cases are vast – from smart speakers, like Google Home or Amazon Alexa, to customer service related tasks like answering questions, scheduling appointments […]