Alessandro Arrichiello

It's been a while since Red Hat released version 3.3 of OpenShift Container Platform, this version is full of features. One of my favorites is the support for Pipelines (Tech Preview for now) that lets you easily integrate Jenkins builds on your OpenShift (Origin) Platform. OpenShift Pipelines OpenShift Pipelines are based on the Jenkins Pipeline plugin. ( https://jenkins.io/solutions/pipeline/) Integrating Jenkins Pipelines into OpenShift unlocks all the features for the CI/CD world enabling its users to easily manage repeatable tasks in...

Containers are one of the top trend today. Starting working or playing with them could be really hard also if you've well understood the theory at their base. With this article I'll try to show you some useful tips and tricks to start into containers world, thanks also to the great web interface provided by the Cockpit project. Cockpit overview Cockpit is an interactive server admin interface. You'll find below some a of its great features: Cockpit comes “out of...

OpenShift gives its administrators the ability to manage a set of security context constraints (SCCs) for limiting and securing their cluster. Security context constraints allow administrators to control permissions for pods using the CLI. SCCs allow an administrator to control the following: Running of privileged containers. Capabilities a container can request to be added. Use of host directories as volumes. The SELinux context of the container. The user ID. The use of host namespaces and networking. Allocating an 'FSGroup' that...