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If you ask three people what they think DevOps is, you’ll get three answers: “a way of running an IT department”, “a culture”, “something to do with Phoenix”. Ask a fourth person and you might hear “You can use OpenShift for that”. To see what DevOps has to do with the world’s favourite PaaS, I went along to the “OpenShift By Red Hat: The PaaS for DevOps” technical deep dive in Brisbane that was given as part of a road...

About a year ago, Red Hat Product Security decided to move its blog, the Red Hat Security Blog , off of WordPress.com's infrastructure and onto Red Hat's OpenShift. There were some initial growing pains since this was a relatively new thing to do, but it wasn't long before the blog was in a stable environment. There were plans to put the application on a larger gear (it was hosted on a small gear) and to make it scalable (it wasn't)...

OpenShift Online has been used by developers around the world to create over 2 million applications. Today, we’re taking another step to support our growing global customer base by adding a new hosting offering in Ireland for OpenShift Online. Developers can now run their applications with the same functionality from either of our US or European hosting locations. Read the entire article Announcing European Hosting for OpenShift Online | Openshift Blog .

Building Community: One Puppet Module at a Time - Diane Mueller, Red Hat & Diego Castro, Getup Cloud Presenter: Diane Mueller Co-Presenter: Diego Castro OpenShift Origin is a complex application to deploy, manage and scale. As a Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is a living (almost breathing) application, we leverage Puppet to give system administrators the power to easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly and proactively deploy the critical resources on a wide variety of infrastructures, on-premises, on bare metal or in the cloud...

abstract: The world is moving fast. Is your IT team keeping up? Are you able to deliver the new applications and services that the business and your customers are demanding? The old ways of doing application development and deliver are falling behind as the world zooms by. Waterfall development and departmental silos are rapidly becoming boat anchors for IT. In this webinar, you will learn about three exciting new game-changers for IT that can help meet these new challenges: Agile...

The JBoss team, with backing from the OpenShift team, are presenting a series of webinars focused on bringing DevOps practices to Java EE focused organizations. The first webinar is next Thursday, July 31. Sign up to discover how DevOps and Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform can accelerate your ability to bring features to the market. DevOps for your Java EE organization webinar series The DevOps approach is compelling. It promises organizations the agility to seize opportunities and rapidly deliver...

Continued from part 1. The test web service The test web service implements a simple file cache storing up to 10 copies of any given named file. Uploading copies beyond the 10th one causes the oldest version to be discarded. The server supports a variety of requests allowing a new version of a file to be uploaded an existing file version to be downloaded listing of the name and version counts of all files in the cache deletion of all...

I found this interesting Node.js article from The New Stack . A handy piece for those of you considering Node and especially now that we now have it in both Software Collections and OpenShift. "Why Node.js is an excellent and underutilized enterprise tool "Node.js, after cutting its teeth for a few years in the open source space, then being used by large-scale startups like LinkedIn and Joyent, it is now heading for the enterprise. From scaling virtualized hyper visors to...

Is Java really greedy for memory? Java is often blamed for being an over-hungry consumer of physical memory. Indeed, until recently our OpenShift team were tempted to draw this same conclusion. OpenShift is Red Hat's open source Platform as a Service (PaaS) product. You can access it via public Cloud infrastructure managed by Red Hat (OpenShift Online) or even deploy it to your own data centre/private cloud (OpenShift Enterprise). OpenShift Online provides simple and manageable scalability to anyone developing and...

For all of the tech people heading to Portland the week of July 21, there may be a weight shift in the cybersphere. :) Red Hat is a sponsor of OSCON again this year, plus for the new Open Cloud Day. If you plan to attend, be sure to attend these Red Hat sessions. Open Cloud Day - sponsored by Red Hat, Chef, Citrix & OpenStack Monday, July 21, 2014 from 9:00am - 5:00pm "The Open Cloud Day at OSCON...

If you're "dipping a toe" into DevOps, a very helpful article by Red Hat's Diane Mueller , OpenShift Community Manager. How to Bring DevOps to your Enterprise with PaaS | Openshift Blog .

MongoDB World is next week in New York City. Are you attending? If so, learn what Red Hat will be talking about: RED HAT OPENSHIFT - Red Hat OpenShift Platform-as-a-Service enables you to easily deploy and run MongoDB-backed applications in the cloud. Start with a free-use subscription. RED HAT SOFTWARE COLLECTIONS - Included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscriptions, Red Hat Software Collections includes the latest stable versions of dynamic languages, open source databases and web servers including MongoDB and...

Three Things Developers Need to Know | Openshift Blog .

Another excellent OpenShift Enterprise update with more examples of Red Hat Software Collections being converted into OpenShift cartridges: MySQL 5.5 and PHP 5.4, and soon the additions of Python 3.3 and MongoDB 2.4. Also, I love the "simple, no touch virtual machine (VM) image of OpenShift Enterprise so [customers] can place the image on their laptop and work on cartridges, code, and DevOps models while they are disconnected from their datacenter. As part of your OpenShift Enterprise subscription, we have...

Background Why Docker has quite an amount of buzz around it today because it makes so many things easy that were difficult with virtual machines. Docker containers makes it easy for Developers, Systems Administrators, Architects, Consultants and others to quickly test a piece of software in a container ; much quicker than a virtual machine, and using less resources. The average command in Docker takes under a second to complete. [root@keith]# time docker run fedora cat /etc/redhat-release Fedora release 20...

Matt Hicks , Red Hat director of OpenShift engineering, ties together these important nascent pieces together for cloud development and deployment. GearD: The Intersection of PaaS, Docker and Project Atomic | Openshift Blog .

Such a hot topic! Matt Hicks , Director, Red Hat OpenShift Engineering, explains how these work together. GearD: The Intersection of PaaS, Docker and Project Atomic via GearD: The Intersection of PaaS, Docker and Project Atomic | Openshift Blog .

Reposting Nick Scavelli's helpful article for Getting Started with Vert.x on OpenShift . Posted by Nick Scavelli

Learn what Red Hatters, Langdon White and Ryan Jarvinen, had to say during this (6 minute) interview at the O'Reilly Fluent conference regarding what we're doing with Javascript, DevOps, and more. {"preview_thumbnail":"/sites/default/files/styles/video_embed_wysiwyg_preview/public/video_thumbnails/NWzEv9SXsLs.jpg?itok=zqxmeqLD","video_url":"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWzEv9SXsLs?feature=player_embedded&w=640&h=360","settings":{"responsive":true,"width":"854","height":"480","autoplay":false},"settings_summary":["Embedded Video (Responsive)."]}

"Since we launched our award winning OpenShift Online public Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) service three years ago and OpenShift Enterprise private PaaS in 2012, customers have often asked us, “What about Microsoft .NET apps on OpenShift?” We listened, and are excited to announce that we are collaborating with Uhuru Software to bring Microsoft .NET and SQL Server capabilities to OpenShift, as an open source community-driven effort in OpenShift Origin. OpenShift Origin is the upstream community project that drives innovation for both our...

The OpenShift Online release for January 2014 has some great additions! Read the whole article here , but read about these cartridge updates: "We've updated some of our most popular cartridges to newer versions. Plus, we'll have more coming very soon. PHP 5.4 MySQL 5.5 Python 3.3 Zend Server 6.1 with PHP 5.4 " Each of these technology cartridge updates are provided by Red Hat Software Collections--fully maintained and supported by Red Hat. "

DeveloperWeek 2014 Innovator awards have been announced and Red Hat has garnished two of them: 1. Platform-as-a-Service: Red Hat OpenShift 2. Coding Environments: Red Hat Software Collections Thank you to all of you who voted! And thank you to all of the Red Hatters that contributed to delivering these two offerings. Note that coincidentally, Red Hat Software Collections eventually become OpenShift cartridges. Also, Red Hat will be a sponsor at DeveloperWeek Conference + Expo , February 18-19, in San Francisco...

Here's a list that highlights top OpenShift blogs of the year! via OpenShift's Top 10 Posts of 2013 | OpenShift by Red Hat .

Came across this post on the Red Hat Services blog about some solid practices for "doing" DevOps. I liked Mr. Hoffman's simple explanation of what DevOps is. I also liked that he points out how just using a tool (or a set of tools) does not equal "doing DevOps." Check it out and make sure you leave some comments here or there about what you think.