I woke up Tuesday morning to an email from AWS reporting a malicious activity on one of our instances. The report found an activity resembling “scanning remote hosts on the Internet…”. This confirmed our suspicion that something might be wrong with the CI instance. The instance contained our Jenkins (V2.32) server and some of our internal tools.
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Hi folks,
Today I want to talk about the demo we presented @ OpenShift Container Platform Roadshow in Milan & Rome last week.
The demo was based on JBoss team’s great work available on this repo:
https://github.com/jbossdemocentral/coolstore-microservice
Continue reading “OpenShift and DevOps: The CoolStore Microservices Example”
It’s been a while since Red Hat released version 3.3 of OpenShift Container Platform, this version is full of features.
Continue reading Using Pipelines in OpenShift 3.3+ for CI/CD
Editor’s note: Raffaele Spazzoli is an Architect with Red Hat Consulting’s PaaS and DevOps Practice. This blog post reflects his experience working for Key Bank prior to joining Red Hat.
This is the journey of KeyBank, a super-regional bank, from quarterly deployments to production to weekly deployments to production. In the process we adopted all open source software migrating from WebSphere to Tomcat and adopting OpenShift as our private Linux container cloud platform. We did this in the context of the digital channel modernization project, arguably the most important project for the bank during that period of time.
The scope of the digital channel modernization project was to migrate a 15-year old Java web app that was servlet-based, developed on a homegrown MVC framework and running on Java 1.6 and WebSphere 7.x to a more modern web experience and to create a new mobile web app.
This web app had grown more expensive to maintain and to meet our SLAs. It was the quintessential monolith app. Our architectural objective was to create an API layer to separate the presentation logic (web or mobile) from the business logic — what lay ahead was an effort to completely modernize the continuous integration and deployment process.
Continue reading “The fast-moving monolith: how we sped-up delivery from every three months, to every week”
In order for businesses to stay agile, developers must be able to deploy apps — quickly, efficiently, and in a streamlined manner. Red Hat Open Innovation Labs uses a container-driven application development framework to perform continuous delivery and accelerate innovation.
Continue reading Red Hat Open Innovation Labs: Automating CI/CD Deployment Pipelines
One of the greatest advantages of using docker containers is the fact that you can move them between environments. A promotion from Development to a Production environment, shouldn’t take more than some few seconds. This is one aspect of “Continuous Delivery”
Because Microservices Architectures are “independently replaceable and upgradeable”, they are the best scenario to show a “Deployment Pipeline”.
Red Hat Developers has produced a sample and free application called “Red Hat Helloworlds MSA” that demonstrates different aspects of microservices (You can read more about this application in the following post: Have your own Microservices playground). This application shows how you can independently deploy the microservices using different technologies (JAX-RS and WildFly Swarm, Spring-boot, Vert.X, NodeJS, etc) and how you can use different invocation patterns to integrate them. It also uses Netflix OSS, integrated via Kubeflix, and ZipKin for tracing.
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The last 4-5 years have seen the debut of many new software products specifically targeting both infrastructure services and IT automation. The consumerization of IT has caused its architects to take a fresh look at their existing, often times monolithic apps and IT infrastructure and asking: Can we do better? How do I keep IT relevant? How do I keep track of all these VMs and data? How do I scale out my IT environment without a huge budget increase or physical buildout? How do I develop and get bits to production faster and with higher quality?
These organizations are looking to evolve their development and deployment processes to be more agile and accelerate time-to-market. They are trying to embrace things like DevOps and Continuous Deployment to do that. They are breaking monolithic apps out into microservices that can be independently updated, with a focus on speed and agility, so their apps can be more reactive to changes in their business. They are evolving from traditional virtualization to public and private cloud deployments.
There are strong parallels between the way open source communities produce great software and how IT orgs build and deliver great software and services. Red Hat, a recognized pioneer in open source, is using its deep experience in open source to build products that support microservice-oriented, DevOps-embracing, container and cloud-centric IT shops.
Continue reading “Using Jenkins in the Red Hat CI/CD Ecosystem”
