Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform

I've recently released a tool called vm-truck-loader to automate virtual machine creation with VMware vCenter. Using a simple CSV file, and leveraging the API exposed by vCenter, this Java based command line tool enables you to design a fully automated deployment process, and can be a key to implement a proper Standard Operating Environment around vCenter. In this regard, I thought I'd do a quick entry on this blog, to briefly describe what the tool can do. Instrumenting virtual machine...

Excerpts from Red Hat announcement: Red Hat Doubles Down on Enterprise PaaS: Reveals Plans for First Full Complement of Enterprise Middleware Services within OpenShift Red Hat recently announced JBoss xPaaS services for OpenShift which provides a rich set of enterprise application, integration and business process automation capabilities and services in an extensible open PaaS platform, and is uniquely positioned to enable accelerated development and deployment of next-generation enterprise applications and business processes in the cloud. Per the announcement, Gartner uses...

Some months ago, I developed and released a small Puppet module for tuned-adm . As this tool is a nice feature of RHEL , I think it is only fair from me to advertise about it here, on the Red Hat developer blog. Quick overview of 'tuned-adm' (Photo credit: Accretion Disc ) To make this brief, this command will take care of tuning the operating system for you, based on the usage you want to make of it. For instance...

Here's a video of my OpenShift PaaS session from Developer Exchange day in Boston. It's something I've delivered a bunch of times - I hope you enjoy it! Session Abstract: Tired of waiting weeks to get a server or spinning up and configuring your virtual servers. Come learn about how PaaS can make you into a happier and more productive coder. We will start by teaching you the meaning behind some acronyms you see thrown around - IaaS, PaaS, and...

Background The goal of this article is to use the OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) as a learning platform for Django . Most of the technical articles out there about running Django on OpenShift assume the user already understands how to administer Django environments and projects. This article is written from the perspective of someone who has done some python programming and wants to learn some Django without doing a bunch of setup work. Since each OpenShift Gear "...is...