Red Hat OpenShift

On our road to Delivery Efficiency, we’ve covered knowing and understanding your thing and we’ve also talked about making our thing better over time and where that fits in the delivery continuum. As we continue our journey, the next key element is in relationships. What relationships? Sometimes our thing relies on other things and other things sometimes rely on our thing. Some people call these inter-dependencies. Simply put, they are relationships. Relationships come in many shapes and sizes: the relationship...

If you are a Linux System Administrator, then passing the Red Hat Certified Engineer exam is probably on your to-do list for career development or better yet, it has been checked off your to-do list with great pride when you passed the exam. If the latter applies to your situation, let me congratulate you! You've earned it! But what if you are a Developer? Should you even care about this certification? Well, here at Red Hat IT, we began piloting...

I had a chance to catch-up with Mark Little, VP of Engineering at Red Hat, to discuss his DevNation involvement and I could feel his enthusiasm through the phone line. Here's what Mark shared about DevNation (and even a bit about Red Hat Summit). What sessions are you giving at DevNation? The first session is the Developer Keynote on Monday (4:00-5:00 in Hall A) with Craig Muzilla, SVP of Red Hat. Previously called the Middleware Keynote, this typically kicks off...

Today, we’ll share a small victory in our DevOps journey at Red Hat IT. This cross-team collaboration has saved our IT organization some headaches and wasted time. We open-sourced the code, hoping it can help you, too. The Dev problem, from Sam Van Oort: Old, pruned git branches are sometimes re-created by accident, making a mess for our developers. Code repositories are the final resting place for code, acting as equal parts bank vault, museum, and graveyard. Unlike a vault...

Come say hi to the RHEL Developer Program and OpenShift teams at Fluent next week. I think the schedule looks super interesting, but to curate a few that I hope to get to: So many js libraries, so little time, which makes the JavaScript Smackdown! Choosing Your MVC between Angular, Ember, and Backbone look really interesting. Getting a deeper understanding of Angular with: Leveling Up in Angular Red Hat's own Steve Citron-Pousty will be talking about GIS in his talk...

Back in December, I shared with you how Red Hat IT was beginning its DevOps transformation. That early post discussed our strategy, team composition, the importance of Open Source, and incremental change. It's been about three months and I'd like to share an update with some early lessons learned. Overall impression so far? This is harder than we thought. To recap, our approach to jump-starting a DevOps transformation in Red Hat IT was to form a small, temporary team inside...

Red Hat has just announced general availability of these long awaited products! It takes a large effort to turn the community code into enterprise quality software that customers and end-users can rely on in production with Red Hat support. It is now a great time for current and potential customers to learn about the product, for partners to start engaging with it and learning the nuts and bolts, and for the open source community and Red Hat to receive all...

In Part 1, we talked a bit about this DevOps thing and why people won't stop talking about it. In Part 2, we'll talk about the areas where you can change your IT focus today to help benefit from DevOps. A classic mistake is to focus primarily on the tools associated with successful DevOps shops. It's not as if you can bring up your own Deployinator and suddenly become as high-functioning an IT shop as Etsy. The tooling is important...

Red Hat brought a LOT of new and excellent application development products and capabilities during 2013, so I thought I would assemble this list for you here in case you missed any. Note that this is not a complete list (and comment if I missed something that you feel should be mentioned), and by the way, it is listed in random order. Red Hat Software Collections general availability. Yes, I will list this first as it's my personal favorite as...

For the really impatient reader: OpenJDK for AArch64 on Fedora is now available. Skip to the end of this blog for information about how you can get it. For everyone else: This is the first of my AArch64 OpenJDK blogs. I’m the project lead of the AArch64 OpenJDK port, and I’ll be blogging here from time to time. There may not be many people reading this blog who don’t know what AArch64 is, but it’s the new 64-bit version of...

Over the past few years, I have been asked on and off as to what the process is for the RPMs that get into Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Fedora repositories. Over those years, the answer has evolved as we attempt to better the process. As it stands right now, there is a difference between how OpenJDK6, OpenJDK7 and OpenJDK8 (preview in Fedora 19) end up into RPMs. This post will shed some light into what those processes are. OpenJDK6...

June 9-11, 2013 - Hynes Convention Center, Boston in conjunction with Red Hat Summit 2013 Three events for the price of one! That's what we have starting on June 9 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Red Hat is pleased to announce the return of JUDCon2013:United States, the new addition of CamelOne, and Red Hat Developer Exchange (formerly Developer Day) - all taking place June 9-11 before our annual Red Hat Summit. These will be co-located at the Hynes Convention Center in...

Let's face it, sometimes slides are painful There are some common issues when I gave presentations: Will my slides file be recognized by the shared computer at the venue? How to share slides with all audiences using different OS? Most important one, how to make my slides smooth and attractive? For the first two questions, PDF might be an acceptable answer. I can upload it to slideshare.net and give out a link to audiences. But everyone knows that's not good...