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Persistent storage in action: Understanding Red Hat OpenShift’s persistent volume framework

Persistent storage in action: Understanding Red Hat OpenShift’s persistent volume framework

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By Bryant Son

Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform that provides a number of different models you can use to deploy an application. OpenShift 4.x uses Operators to deploy Kubernetes-native applications. It also supports Helm and traditional template-based deployments. Whatever deployment method you choose, it will be deployed as a wrapper to one or more existing OpenShift resources. Examples include BuildConfig, DeploymentConfig, and ImageStream.

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Let’s collaborate! Take the 2020 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Survey now

Let’s collaborate! Take the 2020 Red Hat OpenShift Developer Survey now

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By Serena Chechile Nichols

We are always looking for ways to understand better how developers create, build, manage, test, and deploy applications on and for Red Hat OpenShift. An important part of that effort is the annual OpenShift Developer Survey, which we’ve just released for 2020.

Keep reading to learn more about the survey, including highlights of the 2019 survey results and what to expect from the survey this year. We also invite you to participate in our OpenShift developer experience office hours and one-to-one feedback sessions for our developer community and customers.

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Securely connect Quarkus and Red Hat Data Grid on Red Hat OpenShift

Securely connect Quarkus and Red Hat Data Grid on Red Hat OpenShift

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By James Falkner

The release of Red Hat Data Grid 8.1 offers new features for securing applications deployed on Red Hat OpenShift. Naturally, I wanted to check them out for Quarkus. Using the Quarkus Data Grid extension made that easy to do.

Data Grid is an in-memory, distributed, NoSQL datastore solution based on Infinispan. Since it manages your data, Data Grid should be as secure as possible. For this reason, it uses a default property realm that requires HTTPS and automatically enforces user authentication on remote endpoints. As an additional layer of security on OpenShift, Data Grid presents certificates signed by the OpenShift Service Signer. In practice, this means that Data Grid is as secure as possible out of the box, requiring encrypted connections and authentication from the first request. Data Grid generates a default set of credentials (which, of course, you can override), but unauthenticated access is denied.

In this article, I show you how to configure a Quarkus application with Data Grid and deploy it on OpenShift.

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Building modern CI/CD workflows for serverless applications with Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines and Argo CD, Part 2

Building modern CI/CD workflows for serverless applications with Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines and Argo CD, Part 2

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By David Sancho

In the first half of this article, I introduced Tekton as a framework for cloud-native CI/CD pipelines, and Argo CD as its perfect partner for GitOps on Red Hat OpenShift. Our example for the demonstration is a Knative service that deploys and serves a Quarkus application. Our goal is to develop a complete continuous integration and delivery process, which begins when a commit is initiated in the application’s GitHub repository and ends with the new application version deployed in the development, staging, and production environments.

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Static analysis with KubeAudit for Red Hat OpenShift

Static analysis with KubeAudit for Red Hat OpenShift

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By Sean Pryor

In this article, we introduce a new utility for developers who want to ensure that their code transitions cleanly from upstream Kubernetes to Red Hat OpenShift. OpenShiftKubeAudit (KubeAudit) is a static analyzer that semantically checks a user’s code for known incompatibilities so you can fix them before bringing the code into OpenShift. KubeAudit is also simple to use and easy to extend.

Running an audit

This being the first release, KubeAudit currently offers only a handful of audits, but they’re easy to write. We’re looking for feedback and additional use cases from the community to help make the tool more comprehensive.

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Kubernetes integration and more in odo 2.0

Kubernetes integration and more in odo 2.0

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By Serena Chechile Nichols and Steve Speicher

Odo is a developer-focused command-line interface (CLI) for OpenShift and Kubernetes. This article introduces highlights of the odo 2.0 release, which now integrates with Kubernetes. Additional highlights include the new default deployment method in odo 2.0, which uses devfiles for rapid, iterative development. We’ve also moved Operator deployment out of experimental mode, so you can easily deploy Operator-backed services from the odo command line.

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Customizing and tuning the Kuryr SDN for Red Hat OpenShift 3.11 on Red Hat OpenStack 13

Customizing and tuning the Kuryr SDN for Red Hat OpenShift 3.11 on Red Hat OpenStack 13

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By Mohammad Ahmad and Luis Tomas Bolivar

In a previous article, I showed you how to customize Red Hat OpenShift software-defined networking (SDN) for your organization’s requirements and restrictions. In this article, we’ll look at using the Kuryr SDN instead. Using Kuryr with OpenShift 3.11 on Red Hat OpenStack 13 changes the customization requirements because Kuryr works directly with OpenStack Neutron and Octavia.

Note: This article builds on the discussion and examples from my previous one. I recommend reading the previous one first.

Background

Traditional OpenShift installations leverage openshift-sdn, which is specific to OpenShift. Using openshift-sdn means that your containers run on a network within a network. This setup, known as double encapsulation, introduces an additional layer of complexity, which becomes apparent when troubleshooting network issues. Double encapsulation also affects network performance due to the overhead of running a network within a network.

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Command-line cluster management with Red Hat OpenShift’s new web terminal (tech preview)

Command-line cluster management with Red Hat OpenShift’s new web terminal (tech preview)

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By Joshua Wood

Red Hat OpenShift‘s web console simplifies many development and deployment chores to just a few clicks, but sometimes you need a command-line interface (CLI) to get things done on a cluster. Whether you’re learning by cut-and-paste in a tutorial or troubleshooting a deep bug in production (also often done by cut-and-paste), you’ll likely need to enter at least a line or two at a command prompt.

Starting with version 4.5.3, OpenShift users can try out a tech preview of the new Web Terminal Operator. The new OpenShift web terminal brings indispensable command-line tools right to the web console, and its Linux environment runs in a pod deployed on your OpenShift cluster. The web terminal eliminates the need to install software and configure connections and authentication for your local terminal. It also makes it easier to use OpenShift on devices like tablets and mobile phones, which might lack a native terminal.

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