Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

Yesterday, at Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced OpenShift.io. OpenShift.io is the next generation OpenShift platform, based on OpenShift 3, for building and running applications in the cloud. It gives you complete control of your application's lifecycle, from build to production-- regardless of deploying from source or running a pre-built container. In the Developer tools, Overview and Roadmap Part I summit session, Todd Mancini, Peter Muir, and James Strachan take a packed house through an introduction to OpenShift.io (in addition...

Today's announcement of Red Hat OpenShift.io was followed by a full day of developer toolset Summit sessions. These were presented by the OpenShift.io product development team and covered some truly amazing OpenShift.io features. While there are too many features to cover in a single blog post, these were my top 7 items. 1. A Kanban board that is actually useful OpenShift.io is built from the ground up for development teams to rapidly release software. This is one of the primary...

Installing software is a drag Getting a team set up to work on a new software project can be quite time consuming. You have some great ideas for the code you want to write, but you can’t get down to writing it until you have a development environment for yourself and the rest of the team. First, you have to select, download, and install tools. There are usually some settings that need to be configured for each one. Then, every...

Digital transformation is about evolving into a technology business to compete in the digital economy. Businesses can’t transform without relying on the developer to implement the transformation strategy and deliver value. Unfortunately, as developers look to adopt new approaches that let them deliver business value more quickly, they find it challenging to get started in a timely fashion. First, they have to pick a software stack to use as a foundation. In the world of open source, there is an...

Introducing OpenShift.io Plan, create and deploy hybrid cloud services in less time, with better results Effortless approach to DevOps One click Linux container environments for developers Better decisions through machine-learned recommendations Our job at Red Hat is to provide tools that help make developers successful. For us, that doesn’t mean building a better IDE or a single tool in the tool chain. We have a bigger vision for improving the entire development experience . Our goal is to help development...

This article describes how to run a client-server application for JBoss Data Grid on Openshift using Red Hat Container Development Kit 3.0 Beta and Minishift. This environment for this tutorial can be set up quickly following up this previous post on the Developer Blog. First of all, you need to make sure you have available the ImageStreams and Templates, in order to run JBoss Data Grid in your Openshift Paas. You can check that your environment contains both of them...

In the first part of this series, you can see how to use and configure Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio in order to develop and deploy on the Next-Gen OpenShift platform. A step-by-step guide was given allowing us to: connect to the Next-Gen OpenShift platform from Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio deploy and tune a JBoss Enterprise Application Platform based application debug the deployed JBoss Enterprise Application Platform based application In this second part, we will follow the same pattern...

The OpenShift Next-Gen platform is available for evaluation: visit https://console.preview.openshift.com/. It is based on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.4. This preview allows you to play with OpenShift Container Platform 3.4 and deploy artifacts. The evaluation is limited to one month. The purpose of the article is to describe how to use Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio or JBoss Tools together with this online platform. Install Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio If you have not already installed Red Hat JBoss...

Hi there! It's been a while since I last wrote an article. Today, I want to show you how to easily setup some persistent storage for your projects in minishift / CDK 3 (Red Hat's Containers Development Kit 3). Prerequisites First, let's start planning what you'll need: A working minishift or CDK 3. That's all, I swear! I won't go deep into how to set up a minishift or CDK 3, there are many articles on the Internet to cover...

While validating OpenShift Container Platform on a VMware platform the usage of Atomic OS was also a requirement. In the initial reference architecture, the decision was made to use Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the platform. This platform was then customized and the same packages as in Atomic were installed via Ansible and Red Hat Network. The github repo with those playbooks is here: https://github.com/openshift/openshift-ansible-contrib/tree/master/reference-architecture/vmware-ansible . These playbooks will guide you from start to finish to deploying OCP on VMware...

Web developers and IT professionals are the foundations of any quality business’ data security. However, with technology constantly changing and evolving as well as becoming more consumer-friendly, this data’s vulnerability only increases and it can often be hard to even notice how this new technology can actually affect your company until it occurs. Despite this, ignorance to modern hacking techniques does not refute their inability to transform even the smallest of devices into a weapon with which to infect or...

The CDK 3 Beta release introduces Minishift - a CLI tool that helps you run the OpenShift Container Platform locally by launching a single-node OpenShift cluster on top of a RHEL7 virtual machine. CDK 3 addresses a lot of usability issues we had with CDK 2.x. We aim to provide an improved user experience with CDK 3. What has changed between CDK 2.x and CDK 3 : In CDK 3 we changed the following technologies to make the installation steps...

Introduction The OpenShift Java S2I image, which allows you to automatically build and deploy your Java microservices, has just been released and is now publicly available. This article describes how to get started with the Java S2I container image, but first, let’s discuss why having a Java S2I image is so important. Why Java S2I? The Java S2I image enables developers to automatically build, deploy and run java applications on demand, in OpenShift Container Platform, by simply specifying the location...

For businesses looking to build scalable Internet of Things (IoT) solutions using containers, here is a sample project built on the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform . This project implements an intelligent IoT gateway on the OpenShift Container platform. The IoT Gateway is critical for enterprise IoT as it brings intelligence, and enables key services, at the edge. In this project, the gateway application is deployed as a set of microservices inside containers on OpenShift. A software sensor sends a...

2017: Time for a new resolution and the most important resolution for this year should be to adopt microservices to spend less effort on development and improve your time to market (TTM). Nowadays, there are plenty of tools and frameworks at the disposal of the discerning developer to rapidly build microservices. A few examples include Spring Boot, Vertx, etc. Once you build your microservices, the next step is to ensure that these frequent deployments do not impact the availability of...

Welcome to part 4 of Red Hat JBoss Data Virtualization (JDV) running on OpenShift. JDV is a lean, virtual data integration solution that unlocks trapped data and delivers it as easily consumable, unified, and actionable information. JDV makes data spread across physically diverse systems such as multiple databases, XML files, and Hadoop systems appear as a set of tables in a local database. When deployed on OpenShift, JDV enables: Service enabling your data. Bringing data from outside to inside the...

Part 2 of 2 In part one of this blog post, we mentioned a pain point in Container based environments. We introduced SCAP as a means to measure compliance in computer systems and introduced ManageIQ as a means of automating Cloud & Container based workflows. Tutorial: Using the OpenSCAP integration in ManageIQ In ManageIQ we have been working on leveraging OpenSCAP to show container images that infringe known vulnerabilities based on the latest CVE content distributed by Red Hat. Integrating...

Part 1 of 2 "Docker is about running random crap from the Internet as root on your host" - Dan Walsh Do you trust your containers? In container-based development flows, a developer will create an image to be the base for an application. Images are stateless, read only, and they are built in layers. These layers represent everything in an application's runtime environment but the kernel, which will be “borrowed” from the hosting machine. Such layers include distribution, packages, environment...

This is the first part of a 2 part article, part 2 (End To End Encryption With OpenShift Part 2: Re-encryption) will be authored by Matyas Danter, Sr Consultant with Red Hat, it will be published soon. This article aims to demonstrate use cases for Openshift routes to achieve end-to-end encryption. This is a desirable and sometimes mandated configuration for many verticals, which deal with strict regulations. For example, financial sectors often are extremely careful about their application security standards...

The document covers the initial steps that describe how to play with containers and OpenShift. The article was written together with Jiri Hornicek. Prerequisites For more information about installing containers i n RHEL, see Installation Guide - Red Hat Customer Portal Download OpenShift binaries from Releases - openshift/origin - GitHub . Extract the binaries to your / home / directory and copy them to the /usr/bin / directory : $ tar -xzvf # like openshift-origin-server-v1.3.1-dad658de7465ba8a234a4fb40b5b446a45a4cee1-linux-64bit.tar.gz $ cd $...

Introduction: A feature of OpenShift is jobs and today I will be explaining how you can use jobs to run your spark machine, learning data science applications against Spark running on OpenShift. You can run jobs as a batch or scheduled, which provides cron like functionality. If jobs fail, by default OpenShift will retry the job creation again. At the end of this article, I have a video demonstration of running spark jobs from OpenShift templates against Spark running on...

To get started with FIS 2.0, for people who are just getting to know the technology, here is how I interpret it. Basically, it's divided into two aspects. 1. Integration development: FIS uses Apache Camel as the core technology that creates, orchestrates, and composes microservices into a super lightweight thin integration layer, and becomes the API provider and service orchestrator through exposing RESTful or messaging service endpoints. And you can choose to either package and run it with Spring-Boot or...

It's been a while since Red Hat released version 3.3 of OpenShift Container Platform, this version is full of features. One of my favorites is the support for Pipelines (Tech Preview for now) that lets you easily integrate Jenkins builds on your OpenShift (Origin) Platform. OpenShift Pipelines OpenShift Pipelines are based on the Jenkins Pipeline plugin. ( https://jenkins.io/solutions/pipeline/) Integrating Jenkins Pipelines into OpenShift unlocks all the features for the CI/CD world enabling its users to easily manage repeatable tasks in...