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Cheat Sheet

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Beta cheat sheet

Mike Guerette

This cheat sheet supplies developers with a quick reference to new Red Hat Enterprise Linux commands introduced in RHEL 8 Beta.

Podman and Buildah
Article

Podman and Buildah for Docker users

William Henry

What docker users need to know to move from Docker to Podman and Buildah and the advantages of doing so. Developers/operators can easily move to Podman, do all the fun tasks that they are familiar with from using Docker, and do much more.

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How To

Hello World - installing GCC on RHEL 7

In this tutorial, you will install the GNU Compiler Collection 8.2 from the Red Hat Developer Toolset (DTS) and build a simple C++ Hello World application.

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How To

Hello World - installing Rust on RHEL 7

In this tutorial, you will install the Rust 1.31 Compiler and build a simple Rust Hello World application. This tutorial should take less than 30 minutes to complete.

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Containers cheat sheet

Bachir Chihani +1

Get started with an introduction to container architecture including engine, image, registry, volume, related commands.

OpenShift Operator
Article

IoT edge development and deployment with containers through OpenShift: Part 1

Alessandro Arrichiello

Part 1 of a two-part series, explores techniques that enable the portability of containers across different environments.Through these techniques, you may be able to use the same language, framework, or tool used in your datacenter straight to the IoT edge, even with different CPU architectures.

Podman can now ease the transition to Kubernetes and CRI-O
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Podman can now ease the transition to Kubernetes and CRI-O

Brent Baude

The ability to generate Kubernetes YAML from Podman is under development. Podman can now capture the description of local pods and containers and then help users transition to a more sophisticated orchestration environment like Kubernetes. This article provides a demo to illustrate the process.

Open vSwitch
Article

Speeding up Open vSwitch with partial hardware offloading

Flavio Bruno Leitner

This article focuses on the Open vSwitch (OVS) userspace datapath accelerated with the Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) and its new feature, partial flow hardware offloading, which can potentially save resources while improving the packet processing rate.

Open vSwitch
Article

Performance improvements in OVN: Past and future

Mark Michelson

This article discusses two game-changing performance improvements that have been added to Open Virtual Network (OVN), a component of Open vSwitch project, in the past year: ovn-nbctl daemonization and port groups. The article also discusses possible future improvements.

Perl in RHEL 8
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Using eXpress Data Path (XDP) maps in RHEL 8: Part 2

Paolo Abeni

This article, the second is a series about eXpress Data Path (XDP), explores maps--a more-advanced eBPF feature--and some common pitfalls and basic debugging techniques.

Red Hat CDK
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Red Hat Container Development Kit 3.7 now available

Doug Tidwell

Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) 3.7 is now available to run an OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster on your laptop for developing cloud- and container-based applications.

Open vSwitch
Article

IP packet buffering in OVN

Lorenzo Bianconi

This article explores how Open Virtual Network (OVN), a subproject of Open vSwitch (OVS), ARP/ND_NS actions work, the main drawbacks to the current implementation, and how to overcome these limitations by adding IP packet buffering.

Perl in RHEL 8
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Achieving high-performance, low-latency networking with XDP: Part I

Paolo Abeni

This article guides you through your first XDP program, building a working example from zero and allowing you to build a light-speed network application from there. With an XDP program, you can achieve unprecedented speed in packet filtering, because a modern driver with XDP support can easily handle more than 14 Mpps.