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Autoscaling the Red Hat Cache Service on OpenShift

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By Sebastian Łaskawiec

Earlier this year, Red Hat announced the Red Hat Cache Service which is a distributed in-memory caching service that runs on Red Hat OpenShift.  Red Hat Data Grid is used as the core of the cache service. The cache service is one of the things you can easily install on OpenShift through the OpenShift Service Catalog. You can find the cache service in the Red Hat OpenShift Online Pro tier.  (Alternatively, you can install the Cache Service on your own Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform installation by following the installation manual.)

The Cache Service automatically calculates the amount of user storage based on the container size it’s scheduled on. Typically, it’s 512MB. What’s more interesting is that the Cache Service can operate near the full memory capacity (~97–98 %).

The automatic memory adjustment gives you a nice opportunity to try out the new Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (which now supports memory and custom metrics-based autoscaling). The autoscaler monitors the amount of memory used by the container and adds or removes Cache Service pods based on this measurement.

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The wait is over: JBoss Web Server 5 with Tomcat 9 is here!

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By Ezequiel Aguilar

We are excited to announce the General Availability release of Red Hat JBoss Web Server 5.0 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). Other platforms are will be released shortly. This release includes a technology preview of transactions processing through Narayana. JBoss Web Server 5 is available in the ZIP or RPM format from the JBoss Web Server 5.0 Maven repository and Container Catalog.

JBoss Web Server combines market-leading open source technologies with enterprise capabilities to provide a single solution for large-scale websites and lightweight web applications. It combines the world’s most deployed web server (Apache) with the top servlet engine (Tomcat) and the best support in middleware (from Red Hat).

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Using Red Hat Data Grid to power a multi-cloud real-time game

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By Galder Zamarreno

The scavenger hunt game developed for the audience to play during the Red Hat Summit 2018 demo used Red Hat Data Grid as storage for everything except the pictures taken by the participants. Data was stored across three different cloud environments using cross-site replication. In this blog post, we will look at how data was flowing through Data Grid and explain the Data Grid features powering different aspects of the game’s functionality.

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Red Hat Data Grid on Three Clouds (the details behind the demo)

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By Sebastian Łaskawiec

If you saw or heard about the multi-cloud demo at Red Hat Summit 2018, this article details how we ran Red Hat Data Grid in active-active-active mode across three cloud providers. This set up enabled us to show a fail over between cloud providers in real time with no loss of data. In addition to Red Hat Data Grid, we used Vert.x (reactive programming), OpenWhisk (serverless), and Red Hat Gluster Storage (software-defined storage.)

This year’s Red Hat Summit was quite an adventure for all of us. A trip to San Francisco is probably on the bucket list of IT geeks from all over the world. Also, we were able to meet many other Red Hatters, who work remotely for Red Hat as we do.  However, the best part was that we had something important to say: “we believe in the hybrid/multi cloud” and we got to prove that live on stage.

Photo credit: Bolesław Dawidowicz

 

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Adding API Gateway Policies Now Easier With Red Hat 3scale API Management

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By Hugo Guerrero

With the June 2018 release of Red Hat 3scale API Management 2.2, adding API Gateway policies to your API management layer is easier than ever.

What is a Policy?

Red Hat 3scale API Management provides units of functionality that modify the behavior of the API Gateway without the need to implement code. These management components are know in 3scale as policies. The configuration for the bundled policies is available from the API Manager Portal, where you can define the behavior of your API integration.

The order in which the policies are executed, known as the “policy chain”, can be configured to introduce differing behavior based on the position of the policy in the chain. Adding custom headers, perform URL rewriting, enable CORS, and configurable caching are some of the most common API gateway capabilities implemented as policies.

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What Does the New JBoss EAP CD Release Stream Mean for Developers?

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By Lucas Costi

A new release stream of Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform is now available: JBoss EAP continuous delivery (JBoss EAP CD).

JBoss EAP CD provides rapid incremental releases of new JBoss EAP capabilities approximately every quarter and is delivered only in Red Hat OpenShift image format.

What does this new JBoss EAP CD release stream mean for developers?

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Elytron: A New Security Framework in WildFly/JBoss EAP

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By Siddhartha De

Elytron is a new security framework that ships with WildFly version 10 and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP) 7.1. This project is a complete replacement of PicketBox and JAAS. Elytron is a single security framework that will be usable for securing management access to the server and for securing applications deployed in WildFly. You can still use the legacy security framework, which is PicketBox, but it is a deprecated module; hence, there is no guarantee that PicketBox will be included in future releases of WildFly. In this article, we will explore the components of Elytron and how to configure them in Wildfly.

The Elytron project covers the following: 

  • SSL/TLS
  • Secure credential storage
  • Authentication
  • Authorization

In this article, we are going to explore using SSL/TLS in WildFly with Elytron.

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3Scale by Red Hat Integration with ForgeRock using OpenID Connect

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By Vinay Bhalerao

In my last article, I wrote about how API Management and Identity Management can work together in a complementary fashion to secure and manage the services/endpoints which applications expose as APIs. In that article I covered how Red Hat 3scale API Management can be used to integrate an identity manager, in addition to providing API management functions such as rate limiting and throttling.

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3scale ActiveDocs and OAuth 2.0

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By kevin price

This guide is designed to help you integrate your Red Hat Single Sign-On server with the OpenAPI (OAI)-based ActiveDocs in your 3scale developer portal. Although it has only been implemented with this particular Identity & Access Management solution (IAM), you could in theory make some customizations where necessary to integrate with another OpenID Connect-based solution.

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3scale by Red Hat API and Identity Management Series

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By Vinay Bhalerao

Today’s modern infrastructure faces the complex challenge of managing user’s access to the resources. To protect system and data integrity, companies have implemented identity and access management (IAM) solutions for their in-house systems. IAM solutions address three major concepts: identity, authentication, and authorization.  Their job is to ensure that only authenticated and authorized users have access to resources or information. Every IAM solution on the market provides a great set of features such as:

  • Single Sign-On (SSO)
  • Centralized policy-based authentication and authorization
  • Identity federation

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