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Red Hat Data Grid on Three Clouds (the details behind the demo)

Sebastian Łaskawiec

Here are behind-the-scenes details on how the Red Hat Summit 2018 multi-cloud demo was configured to run Red Hat Data Grid in active-active-active mode for cross-site replication across three clouds to handle a large amount of globally routed traffic.

.NET Core
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Announcing .NET Core 2.1 for Red Hat Platforms

Bob Davis +1

We are very pleased to announ ce the general availability of .NET Core 2.1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift platforms! .NET Core is the open-source, cross-platform .NET platform for building microservices . .NET Core is designed to provide the best performance at scale for applications that use microservices and containers . Libraries can be shared with other .NET platforms, such as .NET Framework (Windows) and Xamarin (mobile applications). With .NET Core you have the flexibility of building and...

JBoss User Group (JBug) Scotland
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Application Modernization and Migration Tech Talk + Scotland JBug Meetup

Eric D. Schabell

At the June 6, 2018, Scotland JBoss User Group meeting, get hands-on experience in a workshop showcasing application development in the cloud using containers, JBoss middleware, services, business logic, and APIs. Also hear a tech talk on application modernization and migration.

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Externalized HTTP Session in an OpenShift 3.9 Environment

Mauro Vocale

In this article I will explain how to externalized the HTTP session of a JEE application in an xPaaS environment, using JBoss EAP and JBoss Data Grid. I will describe the steps needed to easily build the solution and the key points related to it.

API lifecycle
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An API Journey: From Idea to Deployment the Agile Way--Part III

Laurent Broudoux

From Idea to Deployment the Agile Way--Part III: The whole API lifecycle should go agile in order to stay relevant. But, this is made difficult because new service-based architectures make dependencies skyrocket. It’s time to think of a new way to deliver APIs--mocking and testing included--to simplify and accelerate the process of shipping production-ready APIs.

API lifecycle
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An API Journey: From Idea to Deployment the Agile Way--Part II

Laurent Broudoux

From Idea to Deployment the Agile Way--Part II: The whole API lifecycle should go agile in order to stay relevant. But, this is made difficult because new service-based architectures make dependencies skyrocket. It’s time to think of a new way to deliver APIs--mocking and testing included--to simplify and accelerate the process of shipping production-ready APIs.

Running Microsoft SQL Server pod on OpenShift
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State of Functions-as-a-Service on Kubernetes (OpenShift Commons Briefing)

Rob Terzi

If you are interested in serverless computing / Functions-as-a-Service (FaaS) Red Hat’s Michael Hausenblas and Brian Gracely reviewed open source for FaaS on Kubernetes (Apache Open Whisk, kubeless, OpenFaaS) and discussed the pros/cons on an architectural level as well as from a UX)point of view.

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Bringing Coolstore Microservices to the Service Mesh: Part 2--Manual Injection

James Falkner

In this post, we will deploy the existing Coolstore microservices demo as a service mesh and start to demonstrate the tangible value you can get out of the system without any major rewrite or rearchitecture of the existing app. We'll also improve our project along the way to adhere to Istio best practices.

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An API Journey: From Idea to Deployment the Agile Way--Part I

Laurent Broudoux

The whole API lifecycle should go agile in order to stay relevant. But, this is made difficult because new Service-Based Architecture makes dependencies skyrocket! It’s time to think of a new way to deliver APIs - mocking and testing included - to simplify and accelerate the process of shipping production ready APIs.

Cloud Lab Environment in a Backpack
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A Cloud Lab Environment in a Backpack

Marcelo "Ataxexe" Guimarães

Have you ever thought about having your own cloud environment? A local cloud is one of the best things you can do to better understand all the gears that run inside a highly productive environment. How do I know that? I've done it! And I'm ready to show you how I did, and how you can do it.

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Bringing Coolstore Microservices to the Service Mesh: Part 1 - Exploring Auto-injection

James Falkner

distributed architectures introduce more complexity, services meshes can help soften the landing and shift some of that complexity out of our applications and place it where it belongs, in the application operational layer: Bringing Coolstore Microservices to the Service Mesh: Part 1 - Exploring auto-injection

Running Microsoft SQL Server pod on OpenShift
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Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform Load Testing Tips

Supannee Amnajmongkol

This article will share the lessons learned load testing Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform with a large bank in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) who plans to develop a new mobile back-end application using microservices and container technology.

Running Microsoft SQL Server pod on OpenShift
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Deploying a Spring Boot App with MySQL on OpenShift

Chandra Shekhar Pandey

This article covers how to deploy a spring boot app which interacts with mysql in an OpenShift Environment. We might have a requirement where we have to migrate our Spring Boot standalone project to OpenShift environment or we might have to create Docker images.

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Writing Your First Camel Spring Boot Project With the Rest DSL

Mary Cochran

Rest services are becoming more and more popular for communication between systems.  Now that Red Hat supports the use of Red Hat JBoss Fuse with Apache Camel Spring Boot, learn how you can get started with the Rest DSL and Spring Boot. 

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Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) With Nested KVM

Scott McCarty (fatherlinux)

running the Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) With Nested KVM. Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) relies on virtualization to create a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) virtual machine to run OpenShift (based on Kubernetes).

Red Hat Developer Program
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Avoiding Windows rsync permission problems with Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio

Jeff Maury

The Red Hat JBoss Tools OpenShift tooling uses rsync to sync files between your local workstation and running pods on an OpenShift cluster. This is used to provide hot deploy and debugging features for the developer. If you’re using Windows, there are some file permission related issues that can be painful.

Running Microsoft SQL Server pod on OpenShift
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Running Microsoft SQL Server pod on OpenShift

Takayoshi Tanaka

Red Hat now supports Microsoft SQL Server running on RHEL Server. However, Red Hat doesn't provide an official docker image for MS SQL Server on RHEL. This post explains how to create a docker image for MS SQL Server on RHEL and run it on OpenShift.

How to customize OpenShift RBAC permissions
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Structured application logs in OpenShift

Frédéric Giloux

Applications running on OpenShift get their logs automatically aggregated to provide very valuable information on their state and health during tests and in production. In this blog I am covering a few points that may help you with bringing your logs from raw material to a more valuable product.

How to customize OpenShift RBAC permissions
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Containerizing SQL DB changes with Flyway, Kubernetes, and OpenShift

Elvadas Nono

Learn how to containerize and automate SQL changes to micro databases using Flyway, Docker, Kubernetes on Openshift. Flyway is used to build on-the-fly a container that can connect to the containerized database to perform SQL updates using JDBC.

Keycloak
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Keycloak Identity Brokering with OpenShift

David Martin

This article discusses how to set up and configure a Keycloak instance to use OpenShift for authentication via Identity Brokering. This allows for Single Sign On between the OpenShift cluster and the Keycloak instance. The Keycloak instance will be running on the OpenShift cluster and leverage a ServiceAccount OAuth Client. Provisioning Keycloak to your OpenShift namespace Use the below command to create the Keycloak resources in your OpenShift project. oc process -f https://raw.githubusercontent.com/david-martin/keycloak-with-openshift-auth-provider/0.0.2/keycloak-with-openshift-auth-provider.yaml | oc create -f - IMPORTANT: This...