Introducing the Red Hat Flatpak runtime for desktop containers

Introducing the Red Hat Flatpak runtime for desktop containers

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By otaylor

For many years, application developers who wanted to create desktop applications for Linux had to build their applications not just for a particular Linux operating system, but for a particular version of that operating system. Whether it was on the server-side or the desktop, developers wanted to create applications that reliably worked the same in development and production environments. They wanted to upgrade the production environment without having to rebuild and revalidate every running application.

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Secure authentication with Red Hat AMQ 7.7 and ApacheDS LDAP server

Secure authentication with Red Hat AMQ 7.7 and ApacheDS LDAP server

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By Chandra Shekhar Pandey

In this article, we will integrate Red Hat AMQ 7.7 with the ApacheDS LDAP server. However, any version of the AMQ 7.x series can be integrated with the steps mentioned in this article.

For this example integration, we’ll use Apache Directory Studio, which is an LDAP browser and directory client for ApacheDS. You will learn how to set up the ApacheDS LDAP server from scratch, and how to integrate the new LDAP configuration changes that are required in AMQ 7.7. Finally, we’ll test the integration with an AMQ 7.7 shell-based client, using Hawtio as a graphical user interface (GUI). This will be helpful to system administrators and developers as they can quickly create a proof of concept for LDAP and AMQ integration. This will help in enabling role-based access control(RBAC) for accessing AMQ 7.7.

Note: Our example is based on security-ldap, which shows how to configure and use a secure Java Message Service (JMS) application layer with ActiveMQ Artemis and the ApacheDS LDAP server. This example ships with all AMQ 7.x distributions. I have tested the integration in Fedora 32 and the OpenJDK version of Java 8 (1.8.0_252).

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HTTP-based Kafka messaging with Red Hat AMQ Streams

HTTP-based Kafka messaging with Red Hat AMQ Streams

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By Antonio Gagliardi

Apache Kafka is a rock-solid, super-fast, event streaming backbone that is not only for microservices. It’s an enabler for many use cases, including activity tracking, log aggregation, stream processing, change-data capture, Internet of Things (IoT) telemetry, and more.

Red Hat AMQ Streams makes it easy to run and manage Kafka natively on Red Hat OpenShift. AMQ Streams’ upstream project, Strimzi, does the same thing for Kubernetes.

Setting up a Kafka cluster on a developer’s laptop is fast and easy, but in some environments, the client setup is harder. Kafka uses a TCP/IP-based proprietary protocol and has clients available for many different programming languages. Only the JVM client is on Kafka’s main codebase, however.

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Authorizing multi-language microservices with Louketo Proxy

Authorizing multi-language microservices with Louketo Proxy

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By Rarm Nagalingam

What if you needed to provide authentication to several microservices that were written in different languages? You could use Red Hat Single Sign-On (SSO) to handle the authentication, but then you would still need to integrate each microservice with Keycloak. Wouldn’t it be great if a service could just handle the authentication flow and pass the user’s details directly to your microservices? In this article, I introduce a service that does just that!

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Choosing the right asynchronous-messaging infrastructure for the job

Choosing the right asynchronous-messaging infrastructure for the job

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By Bilgin Ibryam

The term asynchronous means “not occurring at the same time.” In the context of distributed systems and messaging, this term implies that request processing will occur at an arbitrary point in time. Asynchronous interactions hold many advantages over synchronous ones, but they also introduce new challenges. In this article, we will focus on specific considerations for choosing the asynchronous-messaging infrastructure for your event-driven systems.

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How to fix .NET Core’s ‘Unable to obtain lock file access’ error on Red Hat OpenShift

How to fix .NET Core’s ‘Unable to obtain lock file access’ error on Red Hat OpenShift

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By Don Schenck

Well, it finally happened. Despite the added assurances of working with containers and Kubernetes, the old “It works on my machine” scenario reared its ugly head in my .NET Core (C#) code. The image that I created worked fine on my local PC—a Fedora 32 machine—but it crashed when I tried running it in my Red Hat OpenShift cluster.

The error was “Unable to obtain lock file access on /tmp/NuGetScratch.” Let’s take a quick look at what happened, and then I’ll explain how I fixed it.

Identity issues

After a lot of web searching and a discussion with a Red Hat .NET Core engineer, I discovered the underlying problem. It turns out that within a container, the identity used to initially run the program (using the dotnet run command) must be the same for subsequent users.

The problem might be easy to understand, but what’s the solution?

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