Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Open vSwitch
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Speeding up Open vSwitch with partial hardware offloading

Flavio Bruno Leitner

This article focuses on the Open vSwitch (OVS) userspace datapath accelerated with the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) and its new feature, partial flow hardware offloading, which can potentially save resources while improving the packet processing rate.

.NET Core
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Using a local NuGet server with Red Hat OpenShift

Tom Deseyn

How to deploy a NuGet server as a caching server on Red Hat OpenShift to speed up builds and host private packages. It also explains some general NuGet concepts and why it makes sense to use a local NuGet server.

omnichannel customer experience
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Integration of container platform essentials (Part 5)

Eric D. Schabell

This article, which is Part 5 of the series, covers core elements of a generic architectural blueprint (container platform and microservices) for the omnichannel customer experience use case.

Open vSwitch
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Performance improvements in OVN: Past and future

Mark Michelson

This article discusses two game-changing performance improvements that have been added to Open Virtual Network (OVN), a component of Open vSwitch project, in the past year: ovn-nbctl daemonization and port groups. The article also discusses possible future improvements.

omnichannel customer experience
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Integration of API management details (Part 4)

Eric D. Schabell

This article, which is Part 4 of the series, covers details pertaining to API management and reverse proxies of a generic architectural blueprint for the omnichannel customer experience use case.

container-security
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Security Considerations for Container Runtimes

Daniel Walsh

Video: Security Considerations for Container Runtimes. Explains/demonstrates using Kubernetes with different security features for your container environment.

kubernetes-database
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Will Kubernetes slow down my database?

editorial-team

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-jAzGzhMXk Lightning Talk from KubeCon 2018: How Fast Was My Database? - Josh Berkus, Red Hat I know my database will be slower on Kubernetes and cloud native storage, but HOW MUCH slower? This is a question everyone thinking of moving traditionally hosted stateful services like database to Kubernetes ask all the time. And until now, we haven't had good answers. This presentation will detail a series of microbenchmarks on PostgreSQL running on and off Kubernetes in a variety of...

operator-framework-kubecon
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Kubernetes Operators in Depth

David Millsaps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu7ecA2rXmc Red Hat's Diane Mueller and Sebastien Pahl dive deep on the Kubernetes Operators at KubeCon 2018. Operators will be featured in OpenShift 4 currently in beta, which you can preview here: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/try-it An Operator is a method of packaging, deploying and managing a Kubernetes application. A Kubernetes application is an application that is both deployed on Kubernetes and managed using the Kubernetes APIs and kubectl tooling. To be able to make the most of Kubernetes, you need a set...

kubernetes-operators
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Introduction to the Kubernetes Operator Framework

David Millsaps

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8k_ayO1VRXE Red Hat's Sebastien Pahl Explains Kubernetes Operators at KubeCon 2018. Operators will be featured in OpenShift 4 currently in beta, which you can preview here: https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/cloud-computing/openshift/try-it An Operator is a method of packaging, deploying and managing a Kubernetes application. A Kubernetes application is an application that is both deployed on Kubernetes and managed using the Kubernetes APIs and kubectl tooling. To be able to make the most of Kubernetes, you need a set of cohesive APIs to extend in...

Red Hat OpenShift
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Building Java 11 and Gradle containers for OpenShift

Michael Vorburger

This article discusses a fast and easy way to get Java apps running in a cloud by using OpenShift’s Source-to-Image (S2I) builder with Maven, Gradle,or Java 11.

.NET Core
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Building .NET Core container images using S2I

Tom Deseyn

This article describes how to build .NET Core container images using source-to-image (S2I). The container images can be built directly from a git repository, from local sources, or from a pre-built application on, which can be useful on your development machine or as part of a CI/CD pipeline.

Writing better Spring applications using SpringFu
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Writing better Spring applications using SpringFu

Faisal Masood

Spring has a new way to code to and it's called Spring Functional or SpringFu. This article uses Kotlin to showcase some of the benefits--such as the ability to write cleaner, more-readable code and gain more flow control--you get from SpringFu.

red hat process automation manager
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Quickly try Red Hat Process Automation Manager in your cloud

Eric D. Schabell

This article describes an easy installation demo that shows how to quickly install Red Hat Process Automation Manager so you have a standard configuration to start your first business rules project.

Logos of many projects on openshift kubernetes
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Leveraging Kubernetes and OpenShift for automated performance tests (part 1)

Frédéric Giloux

Part 1 of a series about leveraging OpenShift or Kubernetes for automated performance tests. It provides an overview of the setup for automated performance testing using a container platform. Points to consider when executing and analyzing performance tests are covered.

red hat decision manager
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Quickly try Red Hat Decision Manager in your Cloud

Eric D. Schabell

Similar to my previous quick install/demo for JBoss BRMS, this article shows how to quickly run Red Hat Decision Manager in your own OpenShift cloud environment.

How to install Ansible Tower on Red Hat OpenShift
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How to install Ansible Tower on Red Hat OpenShift

Michele Naldini

How to set up Red Hat Ansible Tower on OpenShift and have it running as a container in minutes. Ansible Tower helps you scale IT automation, manage complex deployments, and improve productivity.

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Announcing: Thorntail 2.2 General Availability

James Falkner

Thorntail is the new name for WildFly Swarm, and bundles everything you need to develop and run Thorntail and MicroProfile applications by packaging server runtime libraries with your application code and running it with java -jar.

MicroProfile
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Deploying MicroProfile apps on Microsoft Azure using the Azure Open Service Broker

James Falkner

This post shows how easy it is to link Java MicroProfile apps to Microsoft Azure services through the Open Service Broker for Azure. To do that, it describes the steps for reproducing a demo application, based on the popular game Minesweeper, that was presented at the recently concluded Microsoft Ignite 2018 conference in Orlando.