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Observe what your Istio microservices mesh is doing with Kiali

Heiko Rupp

The Kiali project provides observability of a service mesh and the services in the mesh. This post describes how to use Kiali to observe what the microservices in your Istio service mesh are doing, validate the Istio configuration, and see any issues.

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OKD: Renaming of OpenShift Origin with 3.10 release

Diane Mueller-Klingspor

OpenShift Origin, the open source upstream project for Red Hat OpenShift, has been renamed OKD. Find out what this means and see the new logo and new website. Also get details about OpenShift Commons--the place where the community goes to collaborate on OpenShift--and the upcoming OpenShift Commons Gathering.

Container-native
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Container-native integration testing

Raffaele Spazzoli

It can be complex to set up an end-to-end integration test infrastructure, but the process can be simplified by using an infrastructure-as-code approach. In addition, running integration tests for multiple OS/browser combinations can waste resources and time, but a container orchestrator and ephemeral workloads can help mitigate that. This article shows how to build behavior-driven development (BDD) container-native integration tests and run them in OpenShift to overcome these obstacles.

Devconf
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Announcing the DevConf.US 2018 developer conference

Langdon White

Registration for DevConf.US, a great open source Red Hat–sponsored community technology conference for contributors to Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) and those who want to learn more about it, is now open and the schedule is live.

.NET Core
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Announcing .NET Core 2.1 for Red Hat Platforms

Bob Davis +1

We are very pleased to announ ce the general availability of .NET Core 2.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift platforms! .NET Core is the open-source, cross-platform .NET platform for building microservices. .NET Core is designed to provide the best performance at scale for applications that use microservices and containers. Libraries can be shared with other .NET platforms, such as .NET Framework (Windows) and Xamarin (mobile applications). With .NET Core you have the flexibility of building and deploying applications...

JBoss User Group (JBug) Scotland
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Application Modernization and Migration Tech Talk + Scotland JBug Meetup

Eric D. Schabell

At the June 6, 2018, Scotland JBoss User Group meeting, get hands-on experience in a workshop showcasing application development in the cloud using containers, JBoss middleware, services, business logic, and APIs. Also hear a tech talk on application modernization and migration.

Using API keys securely in your OpenShift microservices and applications
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Customizing an OpenShift Ansible Playbook Bundle

Alessandro Arrichiello

Learn how to create an Ansible Playbook Bundle (APB) and customize it to configure an external remote host (through SSH), explore what goes on "under the hood," and get tips for troubleshooting APBs.

Using API keys securely in your OpenShift microservices and applications
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Using Ansible Galaxy Roles in Ansible Playbook Bundles

Siamak Sadeghianfar

[In case you aren't following the OpenShift blog, I'm cross posting my article here because I think it will be of interest to the Red Hat Developer commnity.] The Open Service Broker API standard aims to standardize how services (cloud, third-party, on-premise, legacy, etc) are delivered to applications running on cloud platforms like OpenShift. This allows applications to consume services the exact same way no matter on which cloud platform they are deployed. The service broker pluggable architecture enables admins...

Red Hat Summit signage: Keep Exploring
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Red Hat Summit: Lowering the risk of monolith to microservices

Doug Tidwell

Modernizing a monolithic application by introducing microservices has some significant risks. Red Hat's Christian Posta shares his experiences helping customers move to microservices, providing lots of practical advice and insight along the way.

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Red Hat Summit: Functions as a Service with OpenWhisk and OpenShift

Doug Tidwell

Serverless computing (often called Functions as a Service, or FaaS) is one of the hottest emerging technologies today. The OpenWhisk project, currently in incubation at Apache, is an open-source implementation of serverless that lets you create functions that are invoked in response to events.

Red Hat Summit 2018 demo
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Red Hat Summit 2018 Burr Sutter Demo - Multi-cloud

Rob Terzi

One of the highlights of Red Hat Summit 2018 was another live, on-stage demo given by Burr Sutter ( @burrsutter) and a team of developers. The demo was particularly engaging because the audience participated using a mobile game on their phones that communicated with a multi-cloud backend developed by Burr's team. The objective of the demo was to show off the technologies, and also show how complex development and deployment challenges can be solved with a modern approach. Audience members...

Moscone West graced with the Shadowman logo
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Red Hat Summit: Containers, Microservices, and Serverless Computing

Doug Tidwell

You're in an IT department. How does the rest of the organization see you? As a valuable asset whose code and APIs make a difference in the marketplace, or as a necessary evil that should be trimmed wherever possible? Containers, microservices, and serverless computing can get you where you need to go.

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Eclipse Che’s Plans for 2018

Stevan Le Meur

It’s been an incredibly exciting journey for Eclipse Che since the acquisition of Codenvy by Red Hat. Che 6 is the most important release in Eclipse Che history—it is a big release with more than 1,550 commits. So there’s a ton of new goodness for everyone!

Red Hat Summit
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Meeting Red Hat authors at Red Hat Summit 2018

Eric D. Schabell

Early this year, the book Effective Business Process Management with JBoss BPM launched a free ebook on Red Hat Developers that you can download. Next week I'll be at the Red Hat Summit 2018 conference in San Francisco, CA, at the Moscone Center speaking and presenting a hands-on lab. The surprise event is that Red Hat authors will be spending time at the booth where we'll be signing copies of our respective books. Look for me at the following times...

Announcing Red Hat Developer Studio 12.0.0.GA and JBoss Tools 4.6.0.Final for Eclipse Photon
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Announcing Developer Studio 11.3.0.GA, JBoss Tools 4.5.3 for Eclipse Oxygen.3a

Jeff Maury

The community editions of JBoss Tools 4.5.3 and JBoss Developer Studio 11.3 for Eclipse Oxygen.3a are here waiting for you. Check it out! Installation JBoss Developer Studio comes with everything pre-bundled in its installer. Simply download it from our JBoss Products page and run it like this: java -jar jboss-devstudio-.jar JBoss Tools or Bring-Your-Own-Eclipse (BYOE) JBoss Developer Studio require a bit more: This release requires at least Eclipse 4.7 (Oxygen) but we recommend using the latest Eclipse 4.7.3a Oxygen JEE...

Jakarta EE
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Jakarta EE is officially out

Mark Little

Jakarta EE is officially out! The number of Java developers globally is estimated at over 14 million. The Java EE market is estimated at a high multi-billion Dollar value to the industry.