Introduction to cloud-native CI/CD with Tekton (KubeCon Europe 2020)

Introduction to cloud-native CI/CD with Tekton (KubeCon Europe 2020)

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By Jan Kleinert

If you’re interested in cloud-native CI/CD and Tekton but haven’t had a chance to get hands-on with the technology yet, the KubeCon Europe Virtual event provides an opportunity to do that. Tekton is a powerful and flexible open source framework for creating cloud-native CI/CD pipelines. It integrates with Kubernetes and allows developers to build, test, and deploy across multiple cloud providers and on-premises clusters as shown in Figure 1.

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Introduction to Strimzi: Apache Kafka on Kubernetes (KubeCon Europe 2020)

Introduction to Strimzi: Apache Kafka on Kubernetes (KubeCon Europe 2020)

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By Paolo Patierno and Jakub Scholz

Apache Kafka has emerged as the leading platform for building real-time data pipelines. Born as a messaging system, mainly for the publish/subscribe pattern, Kafka has established itself as a data-streaming platform for processing data in real-time. Today, Kafka is also heavily used for developing event-driven applications, enabling the services in your infrastructure to communicate with each other through events using Apache Kafka as the backbone. Meanwhile, cloud-native application development is gathering more traction thanks to Kubernetes.

Thanks to the abstraction layer provided by this platform, it’s easy to move your applications from running on bare metal to any cloud provider (AWS, Azure, GCP, IBM, and so on) enabling hybrid-cloud scenarios as well. But how do you move your Apache Kafka workloads to the cloud? It’s possible, but it’s not simple. You could learn all of the Apache Kafka tools for handling a cluster well enough to move your Kafka workloads to Kubernetes, or you could leverage the Kubernetes knowledge you already have using Strimzi.

Note: Strimzi will be represented at the virtual KubeCon Europe 2020 conference from 17-20 August 2020. See the end of the article for details.

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OpenShift for Kubernetes developers: Getting started

OpenShift for Kubernetes developers: Getting started

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By Aditi Kulkarni

If you are familiar with containers and Kubernetes, you have likely heard of the enterprise features that Red Hat OpenShift brings to this platform. In this article, I introduce developers familiar with Kubernetes to OpenShift’s command-line features and native extension API resources, including build configurations, deployment configurations, and image streams.

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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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