Eclipse Che / OpenShift Dev Spaces – Podman With Fuse Overlay

In this post, I am going to show you how to enable faster Podman builds in Eclipse Che / OpenShift Dev Spaces by enabling support for /dev/fuse in your workspace. This will eliminate the need for using vfs with podman. It also gets us closer to being able to do podman run in a rootless […]

Automatically update containers with podman-auto-update

Photo by Timelab on Unsplash In this tutorial I will show you how to configure automatic updates for containers in rootless Podman environments and how systemd manages these containers as services. The tutorial is divided into the following sections: If you are not interested in the possible use cases and would rather start right away, […]

Transforming a blogging platform into a real community initiative

Our blogging platform “Open Sourcerers” has grown to over 40 authors, all of whom share the same passion for open source technology. We believe that a community-based approach is essential, and everyone should have the opportunity to contribute to our platform. Until now, our focus has been solely on the content itself, but we have […]

Using OSTree Native Containers as Node Base Images

Node Base Images are OCI container images that are used to deliver software updates and customizations to rpm-ostree based Linux systems running on bare metal and virtual machines, such as Fedora CoreOS, Fedora IoT, Fedora Silverblue, CentOS Stream CoreOS, RHEL CoreOS, and RHEL for Edge. Node Base Images are built with OSTree Native Containers. While application […]

Java to Pod

From Java code in your repo to a running Pod on Kubernetes. This article explains all the steps needed, including basic shortcuts.

Approaching the Kubernetes Bridge – Multi-container Apps with Rootless Podman

In the year 2023 we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Docker and the 9th anniversary of Kubernetes. Container technology has now become mainstream. But recent advances in the Podman ecosystem prove that innovation in the container world is still happening at a strong pace. Podman 4 was released in February 2022 and brought considerable improvements […]

Quantum Computing – How to start and how to say “Hello World!”

Introduction In my previous post on Open Source and Quantum Computing Quantum Computing: Open Source from the Start we learned about Quantum Computing in general and how Open Source is used to provide access to this new computing paradigm. This post will now focus on how to get started and provide a very easy guide […]

Automated Application Packaging And Distribution with OpenShift – Helm Charts and Operators – Part 2/4

Part two of the article series. This time about Helm Charts, Operators and various CLI tools to work with container images.

How to go from Docker to Kubernetes the right way

Docker came a long way. It established itself very fast as the de-facto standard to get going with your container journey. It did not matter if you wanted to just play around with containers or if you wanted to build up new microservices, Docker was and still is a great choice to get yourself started. […]

Container images, multi-architecture, manifests, ids, digests – what’s behind?

Many of us use container images from day to day, maybe also in many various architectures. For example on your Raspberry PI (aarch64), do you really know how it works in detail? I have worked with container images more or less since 2015 but during an OpenShift 4 air-gapped installation and mirroring of images into […]