Click-through learning with VS Code and Didact

Click-through learning with VS Code and Didact

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By Brian Fitzpatrick

The Didact project is designed to fill a void in Visual Studio Code, but what exactly is it? And more importantly, why should you care?

Didact started as a “What if?” VS Code doesn’t provide a great way to walk users through a step-wise tutorial. “What if” we could meet that need by combining the following:

  • A simple markup language (such as Markdown or AsciiDoc).
  • The ability to render the markup as HTML using the VS Code webview.
  • A way to invoke the commands we create for each VS Code extension.

And over the course of a day or so of coding, I had a working prototype.

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Vault IDs in Red Hat Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Tower

Vault IDs in Red Hat Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Tower

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By Sreejith Anujan

This article demonstrates the use of multiple vault passwords through vault IDs. You will learn how to use vault IDs to encrypt a file and a string. Once they’re encrypted, the vault ID can be referenced inside a playbook and used within Red Hat Ansible and Red Hat Ansible Tower.

Starting with Ansible 2.4 and above, vault IDs are supported

Vault IDs help you encrypt different files with different passwords to be referenced inside a playbook. Before Ansible 2.4, only one vault password could be used in each Ansible playbook. In effect, every file needed to be encrypted using the same vault password.

To begin with, vault IDs need to be pre-created and referenced inside your ansible.cfg file. The following excerpt is from ansible-config list for the configuration DEFAULT_VAULT_IDENTITY_LIST:

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API login and JWT token generation using Keycloak

API login and JWT token generation using Keycloak

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By Muhammad Edwin

Red Hat single sign-on (SSO)—or its open source version, Keycloak—is one of the leading products for web SSO capabilities, and is based on popular standards such as Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0, OpenID Connect, and OAuth 2.0. One of Red Hat SSO’s strongest features is that we can access Keycloak directly in many ways, whether through a simple HTML login form, or an API call. In the following scenario, we will generate a JWT token and then validate it. Everything will be done using API calls, so Keycloak’s UI is not exposed to the public directly.

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Use Red Hat OpenShift’s built-in OAuth server as an authentication provider in Open Liberty

Use Red Hat OpenShift’s built-in OAuth server as an authentication provider in Open Liberty

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By Tom Jennings

In Open Liberty 20.0.0.1, you can configure the Social Login feature to use Red Hat OpenShift’s OAuth server for authentication. In addition, there is a new MicroProfile Metric to measure CPU time, memory heap and response time. This release also offers faster application startups with Liberty annotation caching, and an updated JavaServer Face.

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Introduction to Eclipse JKube: Java tooling for Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift

Introduction to Eclipse JKube: Java tooling for Kubernetes and Red Hat OpenShift

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By Rohan Kumar

We as Java developers are often busy working on our applications by optimizing application memory, speed, etc. In recent years, encapsulating our applications into lightweight, independent units called containers has become quite a trend, and almost every enterprise is trying to shift its infrastructure onto container technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.

Kubernetes is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications, but it has a steep learning curve, and an application developer with no background in DevOps can find this system a bit overwhelming. In this article, I will talk about tools that can help when deploying your Maven applications to Kubernetes/Red Hat OpenShift.

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Open Virtual Network unidling

Open Virtual Network unidling

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By Lorenzo Bianconi

Open Virtual Network (OVN) is a project born as a sub-component of Open vSwitch (OVS), which is a performant, programmable, multi-platform virtual switch. OVN allows OVS users to natively create overlay networks by introducing virtual network abstractions such as virtual switches and routers. Moreover, OVN provides methods for setting up Access Control Lists (ACLs) and network services such as DHCP. Many Red Hat products, like Red Hat OpenStack Platform, Red Hat Virtualization, and Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, rely on OVN to configure network functionalities.

In this article, I will cover the OVN unidling issue and how the proposed solution can be used to forward events to a CMS (e.g., OpenStack or OpenShift).

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Apache Camel K development inside Eclipse Che: Iteration 1

Apache Camel K development inside Eclipse Che: Iteration 1

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By Aurélien Pupier

The Eclipse Che 7.6.0 release provides a new stack for Apache Camel K integration development. This release is the first iteration to give a preview of what is possible. If you like what you see, shout it out, and more will surely come.

This article details how to test this release on a local instance deployed on minikube. The difference with a hosted instance is that we avoid the prerequisites involving Camel K installation in the cluster and specific rights for the user.

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Editing, debugging, and GitHub in Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces 2

Editing, debugging, and GitHub in Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces 2

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By Don Schenck

In a previous article, I showed how to get Red Hat CodeReady Workspaces 2.0 (CRW) up and running with a workspace available for use. This time, we will go through the edit-debug-push (to GitHub) cycle. This walk-through will simulate a real-life development effort.

To start, you’ll need to fork a GitHub repository. The Quote Of The Day repo contains a microservice written in Go that we’ll use for this article. Don’t worry if you’ve never worked with Go. This is a simple program and we’ll only change one line of code.

After you fork the repo, make note of (or copy) your fork’s URL. We’ll be using that information in a moment.

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How to maintain stable build and deployment performance on Red Hat OpenShift

How to maintain stable build and deployment performance on Red Hat OpenShift

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By Daein Park

In this article, I will introduce helpful, common tips for managing reliable builds and deployments on Red Hat OpenShift. If you have experienced a sudden performance degradation for builds and deployments on OpenShift, it might be helpful to troubleshoot your cluster. We will start by reviewing the whole process, from build to deployment, and then cover each aspect in more detail. We will use Red Hat OpenShift 4.2 (Kubernetes 1.14) for this purpose.

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Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps to define your Quarkus application’s properties

Using Kubernetes ConfigMaps to define your Quarkus application’s properties

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By Sébastien Blanc

So, you wrote your Quarkus application, and now you want to deploy it to a Kubernetes cluster. Good news: Deploying a Quarkus application to a Kubernetes cluster is easy. Before you do this, though, you need to straighten out your application’s properties. After all, your app probably has to connect with a database, call other services, and so on. These settings are already defined in your application.properties file, but the values match the ones for your local environment and won’t work once deployed onto your cluster.

So, how do you easily solve this problem? Let’s walk through an example.

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