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Kubeflow 1.0 monitoring and enhanced JupyterHub builds in Open Data Hub 0.8

Kubeflow 1.0 monitoring and enhanced JupyterHub builds in Open Data Hub 0.8

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By Juana Nakfour

The new Open Data Hub version 0.8 (ODH) release includes many new features, continuous integration (CI) additions, and documentation updates. For this release, we focused on enhancing JupyterHub image builds, enabling more mixing of Open Data Hub and Kubeflow components, and designing our comprehensive end-to-end continuous integration and continuous deployment and delivery (CI/CD) process. In this article, we introduce the highlights of this newest release.

Note: Open Data Hub is an open source project and a community Operator for building an AI-as-a-Service (AIaaS) platform on Red Hat OpenShift.

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How to switch Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization from hardware virtualization to software emulation

How to switch Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization from hardware virtualization to software emulation

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By Bryant Son

OpenShift Virtualization is a feature of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) and OpenShift Kubernetes Engine that allows you to run and manage virtual machine workloads alongside container workloads. Based on the open source project KubeVirt, the goal of OpenShift Virtualization is to help enterprises move from a VM-based infrastructure to a Kubernetes-and-container-based stack, one application at a time.

In my previous article, I showed you how to set up and enable OpenShift Virtualization running on Amazon Web Services Elastic Compute Cloud (AWS EC2). In that article, I noted that OpenShift Virtualization looks for hardware virtualization by default, which requires a bare-metal server instance. If you are running OpenShift on AWS EC2, as I do, then you have to enable software emulation over the default hardware virtualization. Otherwise, you need a bare-metal instance from the public cloud provider or a pure bare-metal solution.

In this article, I show you how to switch OpenShift Virtualization from its default of hardware virtualization to QEMU-based software emulation. You will then be able to start and operate a virtual machine through OpenShift Virtualization, even in a non-bare metal instance such as AWS EC2.

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5 tips for developing Kubernetes Operators with the new Operator SDK

5 tips for developing Kubernetes Operators with the new Operator SDK

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By Laurent Broudoux

Kubernetes Operators are all the rage this season, and the fame is well deserved. Operators are evolving from being used primarily by technical-infrastructure gurus to becoming more mainstream, Kubernetes-native tools for managing complex applications. Kubernetes Operators today are important for cluster administrators and ISV providers, and also for custom applications developed in house. They provide the base for a standardized operational model that is similar to what cloud providers offer. Operators also open the door to fully portable workloads and services on Kubernetes.

The new Kubernetes Operator Framework is an open source toolkit that lets you manage Kubernetes Operators in an effective, automated, and scalable way. The Operator Framework consists of three components: the Operator SDK, the Operator Lifecycle Manager, and OperatorHub. In this article, I introduce tips and tricks for working with the Operator SDK. The Operator SDK 1.0.0 release shipped in mid-August, so it’s a great time to have a look at it.

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How to install the CouchbaseDB Operator for Red Hat OpenShift on your laptop using Red Hat CodeReady Containers and Red Hat Marketplace

How to install the CouchbaseDB Operator for Red Hat OpenShift on your laptop using Red Hat CodeReady Containers and Red Hat Marketplace

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By Don Schenck

Red Hat Marketplace is an online store of sorts, where you can choose the software that you want to install and run on your Red Hat OpenShift cluster. The analogy is a phone app store, where you select an app, and it’s automagically installed on your phone. With Marketplace, you simply register your cluster(s), select the software that you want, and it is installed for you. It could not be easier.

In this article, I show you how to install Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition on an OpenShift cluster. In my case, the cluster is running on Fedora 32 using Red Hat CodeReady Containers (CRC). Couchbase Server Enterprise Edition is currently available as a free trial, and CRC is also available at zero cost. This setup offers a no-risk way to try containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and, in this case, Couchbase. This is definitely “developers playing around with the software”-level stuff.

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Install Red Hat OpenShift Operators on your laptop using Red Hat CodeReady Containers and Red Hat Marketplace

Install Red Hat OpenShift Operators on your laptop using Red Hat CodeReady Containers and Red Hat Marketplace

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By Rojan Jose

Red Hat CodeReady Containers (CRC) is the quickest way for developers to get started with clusters on Red Hat OpenShift 4.1 or newer. CodeReady Containers is designed to run on a local computer. It simplifies setup and testing by emulating the cloud development environment locally with all of the tools that you need to develop container-based applications.

Red Hat Marketplace is an open cloud marketplace that makes it easy to discover and purchase the certified, containerized tools you need to build enterprise-first applications. It was created to help developers using OpenShift build applications and deploy them across a hybrid cloud. Red Hat Marketplace works on any developer workstation that is running CodeReady Containers.

This article guides you through the steps of setting up Red Hat Marketplace and installing containerized products in your local CodeReady Containers-based OpenShift clusters.

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The present and future of CI/CD with GitOps on Red Hat OpenShift

The present and future of CI/CD with GitOps on Red Hat OpenShift

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By Siamak Sadeghianfar

The need to deliver applications faster is near-universal, even in organizations that traditionally are perceived as risk-averse. As the foundations of DevOps, continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery (CD) are essential to application delivery in most organizations. Together, CI/CD tools and processes automate building and testing applications on every code or configuration change, then trigger a sequence of workflows that deliver the application to production.

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Introduction to Tekton and Argo CD for multicluster development

Introduction to Tekton and Argo CD for multicluster development

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By Ryan Cook

Over the last two years, my coworkers and I have worked on developing a multicluster project for Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift. We needed a way to efficiently deploy applications, oversee access and authorization, and manage application placement across clusters. This need led us to develop with Argo CD and GitOps.

Recently, I switched to another team that also focuses on multicluster development. During my interviews, I promised to help create a catalog of our projects and develop a process to deploy them rapidly. Together, the catalog and process would allow the team to just work on things, rather than trying to figure out how to get them operational. However, I quickly hit a wall. With Argo CD, I couldn’t control when and in what order cluster objects were deployed onto new or existing clusters. Eventually, I discovered Tekton, a powerful addition to my development toolset.

In this article, I briefly describe my process for developing the catalog and process tool. I’ll introduce the components involved, explain a little about how Tekton Pipelines works, and leave you with a tool that you can share with your organization and teams.

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Enable OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift

Enable OpenShift Virtualization on Red Hat OpenShift

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By Bryant Son

Imagine an information technology (IT) world where everything is ideal: Every company has switched over to cloud-native applications, every application is containerized, everything is automated, and the IT people see that the world is good. Things are not so ideal in the real world, though, as we know. Applications remain tightly coupled with traditional virtual machine (VM) resources such as software libraries and hardware resources. The effort to migrate them from VMs to containers seems insurmountable, requiring years of dedicated spending and hours from developers and software architects.

The dilemma is that companies want all of their applications to eventually run on containers, but they also need to support applications running on VMs until that glorious shift happens. Given that application migration from VMs to containers will happen over the long haul, some companies are exploring a lift-and-shift approach. In theory, lift-and-shift would let us migrate tightly-coupled legacy applications to a container platform like Red Hat OpenShift. Rather than rewriting application code, developers would simply write interfaces (essentially, code with patterns) that are compatible with the existing structure.

Unfortunately, this scenario is unrealistic for legacy projects involving hundreds of application modules and packages. Therefore, it is logical to ask: What if there was a way to support existing applications running on virtual machines and new applications running on containers in one unified container-based platform?

Luckily, there is a way: Use a Kubernetes-based platform like OpenShift.

In this article, I introduce OpenShift Virtualization, a feature for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP). OpenShift Virtualization allows you to run and manage virtual-machine workloads alongside container workloads.

Note: As of version 2.4 when CNV went GA, Container-Native Virtualization was renamed OpenShift Virtualization.

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Kubernetes-native Apache Kafka with Strimzi, Debezium, and Apache Camel (Kafka Summit 2020)

Kubernetes-native Apache Kafka with Strimzi, Debezium, and Apache Camel (Kafka Summit 2020)

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By Hugo Guerrero

Apache Kafka has become the leading platform for building real-time data pipelines. Today, Kafka is heavily used for developing event-driven applications, where it lets services communicate with each other through events. Using Kubernetes for this type of workload requires adding specialized components such as Kubernetes Operators and connectors to bridge the rest of your systems and applications to the Kafka ecosystem.

In this article, we’ll look at how the open source projects Strimzi, Debezium, and Apache Camel integrate with Kafka to speed up critical areas of Kubernetes-native development.

Note: Red Hat is sponsoring the Kafka Summit 2020 virtual conference from August 24-25, 2020. See the end of this article for details.

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