Jan Kleinert

Developer Advocate, OpenShift, Red Hat

Jan Kleinert

Jan Kleinert is a Developer Advocate at Red Hat, where she focuses on OpenShift and the developer experience for developers working with containers and Kubernetes. Prior to joining Red Hat, she worked in a variety of roles ranging from developer relations to web analytics and conversion optimization.

Recent Posts

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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Application deployment improvements in OpenShift 4.4

Application deployment improvements in OpenShift 4.4

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By Serena Chechile Nichols and Jan Kleinert and Veethika Mishra

The most recent release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform provides enhancements and features that make application development even easier. These enhancements include:

  • An enhanced Developer Catalog.
  • Operator-backed services in the Developer Catalog.
  • The GA release of Helm 3.
  • An add context option in the Topology view.

Keep reading to learn more about each of these enhancements in more detail.

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Tour of the Developer Perspective in the Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 web console

Tour of the Developer Perspective in the Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 web console

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By Jan Kleinert

Of all of the new features of the Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 release, what I’ve been looking forward to the most are the developer-focused updates to the web console. If you’ve used OpenShift 4.1, then you’re probably already familiar with the updated Administrator Perspective, which is where you can manage workloads, storage, networking, cluster settings, and more.

The addition of the new Developer Perspective aims to give developers an optimized experience with the features and workflows they’re most likely to need to be productive. Developers can focus on higher level abstractions like their application and components, and then drill down deeper to get to the OpenShift and Kubernetes resources that make up their application.

Let’s take a tour of the Developer Perspective and explore some of the key features.

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Creating OpenShift components with odo interactive mode

Creating OpenShift components with odo interactive mode

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By Jan Kleinert

If you’re familiar with OpenShift Do (odo), a developer-focused command-line tool for Red Hat OpenShift, then you know that one of its primary goals is to make it easier to do fast, iterative development. Even experienced odo users, however, may not be familiar with odo’s interactive mode, which simplifies the process of creating components and services even further.

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