Lower your container image size and improve compliance

The size of container images plays an essential role in various aspects, not just the amount of storage space used in the Container Registry. In this article, we will explore why optimizing container image size matters and how to achieve it effectively. Oftentimes we have applications whose binaries are quite small but whose container images […]

The on-premise data center is back. Or better: It was never gone

More and more companies reevaluate their presence in the cloud and the on-premise data center. And some who pledged to move most of it or even all of it into the cloud have seen that it is not one or the other it is a mixture of both. To read up on why I think […]

OpenShift Virtualization – Surprisingly mature, even for my high standards!

I’ve been with Red Hat since 2019 as a Solution Architect. I started in the area of 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 in a medium-sized company in Trier, […]

Dynatrace & Red Hat – Unveiling the Automated Remediation Revolution

This blog elaborates on how to discover issues before they occur and have a quicker root cause detection.
React on exception right away in an automated fashion. And with that reduce operational costs and enable faster delivery and MTRS time.

Forensic container checkpointing in OpenShift

Photo by Daniel van den Berg on Unsplash On a warm summer day, I visited the Kubernetes Community Days Munich and enjoyed Adrian Reber’s talk about “Forensic container checkpointing and analysis”. Now I want to try that with OpenShift 4.13! This blog post will mainly cover how to enable and use checkpointing on OpenShift 4.13. […]

Deep dive into a scalable enterprise integration platform with MuleSoft and OpenShift

This article shows how MuleSoft’s Runtime Fabric (RTF) deployed to Red Hat OpenShift delivers a modern containerized API solution.

Quick start guide to the smallest OpenShift cluster for Windows workload

Introduction As a Solution Architect for Red Hat’s ecosystem, I talk to many independent software vendors (ISVs) about modernizing their applications to enable hybrid cloud and edge strategies. Linux, containers, Kubernetes and micro-services architecture are a default choice nowadays in many new application development projects. But sometimes you can not get rid of some dependencies […]

Software Supply Chain Security

What is Software Supply Chain Security ? In this day and age most of us are looking for trust and security. This is also true for our IT infrastructure as challenges from the outside grow more and more dangerous to the continuation of undisturbed business. Attacks on the IT infrastructure of companies not only rise […]

Service Performance Monitoring (SPM) with Jaeger of your Own Service/Application

By Robert Baumgartner, Red Hat Austria, February 2023 (OpenShift 4.12) In this blog I will guide you on how to use service performance monitoring (SPM) with Jaeger. It should work with any application that is working with OpenTelemetry. This document is based on OpenShift 4.12. See Distributed tracing release notes. OpenShift distributed tracing platform Operator […]

The Operator Update Information Checker

By Robert Baumgartner, Red Hat Austria, March 2023 Summary Recently Red Hat has released a tool at the Customer Portal Labs that can give very detailed information about Operators and available updates, supported versions, and much more. The name of this tool is Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Operator Update Information Checker Where to find […]