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Apache Kafka on OpenShift
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Announcing AMQ Streams: Apache Kafka on OpenShift

David Ingham

We are excited to announce a Developer Preview of AMQ Streams, a new addition to Red Hat AMQ, focused on running Apache Kafka on OpenShift. AMQ Streams simplifies the deployment, configuration, management and use of Apache Kafka on OpenShift using automation based on Kubernetes Operators.

Introduction to Istio blog series
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Istio Service Mesh Blog Series Recap

Don Schenck

The past nine weeks of blog posts have introduced, explained, and demonstrated some of the many features of the Istio service mesh when combined it is with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes. This, the final post in this series, is a recap.

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Eclipse Che’s Plans for 2018

Stevan Le Meur

It’s been an incredibly exciting journey for Eclipse Che since the acquisition of Codenvy by Red Hat. Che 6 is the most important release in Eclipse Che history—it is a big release with more than 1,550 commits. So there’s a ton of new goodness for everyone!

Introduction to Istio Service Mesh series
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Istio Egress: Exit Through the Gift Shop

Don Schenck

Using Istio with Red Hat OpenShift and Kubernetes makes life with microservices easier. But what if you want your microservice to talk to another service that is outside of your OpenShift/Kubernetes/pods environment? Enter Istio Egress.

Red Hat Summit
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Red Hat Summit Spotlight: Getting Started with Cloud-Native Apps Lab

Siamak Sadeghianfar

Cloud-native application development is the new paradigm for building applications and although is it often mistaken for microservices, it is much more than that and encompasses not only the application architecture but also the process through which applications are built, deployed, and managed. New apps are often seen as the focus of cloud-native applications; however, we believe existing and new applications are alike and can incorporate cloud-native practices if they have the four defining characteristics of cloud-native applications: Service-based: Build...

Introduction to Istio Service Mesh series
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Istio Smart Canary Launch: Easing Into Production

Don Schenck

This is part eight of a ten-week series and covers using the Canary Deployment pattern to ease code into production. Istio makes this easy while giving you several good options for intelligent routing. And you can do it all without changing your source code.

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Red Hat Summit 2018: Learn how other developers are producing cloud-native applications

Mike Guerette +1

Want insights into how other organizations are building cloud-native applications and microservices? At Red Hat Summit 2018 , developers from a number of different companies will be sharing their stories in break-out sessions, lightning talks, and birds-of-a-feather discussions. Learn how they solved real business problems using containers, microservices, API management, integration services, and other middleware. OpenShift service mesh with Istio and Jager, from the perspective of Sabre and USAA Containerizing the BMW Connected Car Backend How to build a European...

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.

Running Microsoft SQL Server pod on OpenShift
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Zero to Express on OpenShift in Three Commands

Lucas Holmquist

With the recent announcement that Node.js is available as part of Red Hat OpenShift Application Runtimes, I wanted to see how easy it was to deploy an Express.js app on Red Hat OpenShift. It was quite easy to go from zero to having an Express app deployed and running. I show how using npx and nodeshift.

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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.

Istio Chaos Engineering
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Istio Chaos Engineering: I Meant to Do That

Don Schenck

Testing software is challenging and very important. Testing for correctness is one thing, but testing for failures in network reliability is quite another task. This article will demonstrate how Istio makes this oh so easy.

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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.

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
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Integrating Intercede RapID with Red Hat Mobile and OpenShift

Evan Shortiss

In this article, we’ll demonstrate how Red Hat Mobile v4 and OpenShift v3 enable customers to rapidly deploy and secure their mobile applications by integrating with a third party product provided by Intercede. We’ll be using Intercede’s RapID product to enable two-way TLS.

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Istio Circuit Breaker: When Failure Is an Option

Don Schenck

The phrase "Failure is not an option" is tossed about with much bravado, with Istio Circuit Breaker. But the fact remains, things eventually fail. Everything. How, then, do you handle the inevitable failure of your microservices? This article will show you how.

Istio Circuit Breaker: How to Handle (Pool) Ejection
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Istio Circuit Breaker: How to Handle (Pool) Ejection

Don Schenck

This is week three of a ten-week series about Istio, kubernetes and OpenShift. The series started with an introduction to Istio, and this week covers Istio Circuit Breaker: How To Handle (Pool) Ejection.

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Next DevNation Live: Camel Riders in the Cloud, March 15th, 12pm EDT

Burr Sutter

The next online DevNation Live Tech Talk will be Thursday, March 15th at 12pm EDT. The topic is Camel Riders in the Cloud presented by Claus Ibsen Apache Camel has fundamentally changed the way enterprise Java™ developers think about system-to-system integration. It makes it easy to apply enterprise integration patterns (EIP) using simple declarations. The result is a lightweight application that is wrapped and delivered as a single JAR. In this session, we’ll show you how to apply the best...

Intro to Istio blog series
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Istio Route Rules: Telling Service Requests Where to Go

Don Schenck

This article covers Istio Route Rules and telling Service Requests Where To Go. OpenShift and Kubernetes do a great job of working to make sure calls to your microservice are routed to the correct pods. What if, however, you want to customize the routing?

Intro to Istio blog series
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Istio: It makes a mesh of things

Don Schenck

this is an introduction to Istio. Istio helps automate the developer time to implement a feature. The combination of code complexity and code heft (i.e. number of lines of code) can put a drag on an implementation. Istio is a better way.