How to install OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF) 4.11 in a disconnected or air-gapped VMware cluster

Estimated reading time: 8 minutes Motivation Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation (ODF), previously Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage, is a software-defined persistent storage solution for OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) workloads. In this article you’ll learn how to deploy OpenShift Data Foundation using local storage devices on a disconnected VMware cluster. An air-gapped or disconnected network […]

Using Quarkus to develop a multiplayer game – Chapter #1 – Initial setup

Quarkus is a fantastic Java runtime environment and framework. Read this article to learn how easy it is to use Quarkus to create the server part of a multi player game (with a JavaScript client, running in a browser). Learn how to easily integrate Apache Kafka, WebSockets, a database, Qute templating for reporting etc. This is part ONE of a multi part article series.

Develop: The Inner Loop with OpenShift Dev Spaces (2/4)

In Part II of our 4-part blog series “You’ve written a Kubernetes-native Application? Here is how OpenShift helps you to run, develop, build and deliver it”, we will focus on the aspect of developing our application with and directly on OpenShift. In Part I, we’ve introduced our sample application “the Local News Application”, and showed […]

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 […]

You’ve written a Kubernetes-native Application? Here is how OpenShift helps you to run, develop, build and deliver it – securely! (3/4)

This is Part III of our 4-part blog series about leveraging OpenShift for your containerized application. Part 1 has already been published, and Part II will follow soon. We are flipping it around a little, so stay tuned for Part II, which will be all about development with and on Kubernetes. Run: Get your Angular, […]

Develop faster, operate smart: A Kubernetes-native guide to AI application development

tl;dr A Kubernetes-native software engineering approach for the development of AI applications helps you increase developer productivity, optimize resource consumption as well as simplify operations. A hands-on demo of this approach can be seen here. Two-step development approach The usage of an AI/ML model in an application requires basically a two-step development approach. The first […]

The datacenter of the future

When I try to look into the future, what would I see for a datacenter? What are the requirements the data centers need to comply with? What can a solution look like? In the coming text I will try to give answers to those questions. Executive summary In the coming years the usage of services […]

You’ve written a Kubernetes-native Application? Here is how OpenShift helps you to run, develop, build and deliver it – securely! (1/4)

This blog kicks off a series of 4 blog articles. They will all be available here, as soon as they get published. Run: Get your Angular, Python or Java Dockerfile ready with Red Hat’s Universal Base Image and deploy with Helm on OpenShift Develop: The Inner Loop with OpenShift Dev Spaces Build: From upstream Tekton […]

Kubernetes Native Development

Abstract of our book about how to develop, build, deploy, and run applications on Kubernetes In March 2021, we both embarked on a thrilling journey by writing a book on “Kubernetes Native Development – Develop, Build, Deploy, and Run Applications on Kubernetes”. The book covers a topic that is especially relevant for everyone that decided […]

Cardboard OpenShift cluster

Although OpenShift becomes more and more known, there still are quite some people who are not fully aware about OpenShift and how it works. In addition to the common methods of presentations (“slides on beamers”), there are always opportunities to make software or processes in software more visible and tangible. So we show a slide, […]