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Microsoft announced the first "alpha" release of the new MSBuild-based .NET Core tools. .NET Core SDK which can be downloaded from the Red Hat Developer Program site consists of .NET Core Runtime and .NET Core command line tools (.NET Core CLI). (Reminder - you must have a Red Hat Enterprise Linux subscription first. If you don't, you can go here for a no-cost subscription.) The MSBuild tool is included in .NET Core 1.0 preview 3 (not in the latest release...

With the release of Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio 10.2, it is now possible to install Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio as an RPM. It is available as a tech preview. The purpose of this article is to describe the steps you should follow in order to install Red Hat JBoss Developer Studio. Red Hat Software Collections JBoss Developer Studio RPM relies on Red Hat Software Collections. You don’t need to install Red Hat Software Collections but you need to...

Get started building Ruby applications in docker formatted containers using the Red Hat Container Development CDK (CDK) 2. Introduction and Prerequisites In this tutorial, you will learn how to start building Ruby applications in docker formatted containers using the Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You need to have CDK 2 installed and should have downloaded the Red Hat Enterprise Linux vagrant box for your system. See the CDK 2 Installation Guide for more...

Get started building Python applications in docker formatted containers using the Red Hat Container Development CDK (CDK) 2 Introduction and Prerequisites In this tutorial, you will learn how to start building Python 3 applications in docker formatted containers using the Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You need to have CDK 2 installed and should have downloaded the Red Hat Enterprise Linux vagrant box for your system. See the CDK 2 Installation Guide for...

Get started building PHP applications in docker formatted containers using the Red Hat Container Development CDK (CDK) 2. Introduction and Prerequisites In this tutorial, you will learn how to start building PHP applications in docker formatted containers using the Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You need to have CDK 2 installed and should have downloaded the Red Hat Enterprise Linux vagrant box for your system. See the CDK 2 Installation Guide for more...

Get started building Node.js applications in docker formatted containers using the Red Hat Container Development CDK (CDK) 2. Just 3 easy steps. Introduction and Prerequisites In this tutorial, you will learn how to start building Node.js applications in docker formatted containers using the Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) 2 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. You need to have CDK 2 installed and should have downloaded the Red Hat Enterprise Linux vagrant box for your system. See the CDK 2...

Microsoft announced SQL Server on Linux public preview, so now you can try SQL Server on your Red Hat Enterprise Linux server. I'll describe how to start SQL Server on RHEL. Install and connect with CLI on RHEL Microsoft publishes a step-by-step document how to Install SQL Server on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. It's only 7 steps to install and run. # systemctl status mssql-server ● mssql-server.service - Microsoft(R) SQL Server(R) Database Engine Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/mssql-server.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)...

Containers are one of the top trend today. Starting working or playing with them could be really hard also if you've well understood the theory at their base. With this article I'll try to show you some useful tips and tricks to start into containers world, thanks also to the great web interface provided by the Cockpit project. Cockpit overview Cockpit is an interactive server admin interface. You'll find below some a of its great features: Cockpit comes “out of...

It's been a while since our last deep-dive into the Docker project graph driver performance. Over two years, in fact! In that time, Red Hat engineers have made major strides in improving container storage: Introduced the docker-storage-setup package to help make configuring devicemapper-based storage a snap. Introduced full support for overlay FS in RHEL7.2+ when used with containers Introduced overlay2 as Tech Preview mode Gotten SELinux support to both overlay and overlay2 merged into upstream kernel 4.9 Added a warning...

MACsec is an IEEE standard for security in wired ethernet LANs. This blog , will give an overview of what MACsec is, how it differs from other security standards, and present some ideas about how it can be used. MACsec is a Layer 2 protocol that relies on GCM-AES-128 to offer integrity and confidentiality, and operates over ethernet. It can secure all traffic within a LAN, including DHCP and ARP, as well as traffic from higher layer protocols. It is...

Open vSwitch is a software switch responsible for providing network connectivity to virtual machines or containers. Since it is programmable, it brings a challenge to understand what is going on in the network. Open vSwitch (OVS) is an OpenFlow virtual switch, so before talking about OVS itself, it is necessary to introduce OpenFlow a bit. OpenFlow is an open standard protocol that allows separation of the packet forwarding (data plane) from the high level routing decisions (control plane). The control...

Microservices are becoming a new trend, thanks to the modularity and granularity they provide on top of advantages like releasing applications in a continuous manner. There are various platforms and projects that are rising which aims to make writing and managing microservices easy. Keeping that in mind, I thought, why not make a demo application that can give an example of how microservices are built and how they interact. In this article, I will be building a small application using...

P/Invoke(Platform Invocation Service) is one of the features of CLI (Common Language Interface) on .NET Framework. P/Invoke enables managed code to call a native function in DLL (Dynamic Link Library). It's a powerful tool for .NET Framework to execute existing C-style functions easily. .NET Core also has a P/Invoke feature and it means we can call a native function in .so file (Linux) and . file (Max OSX). I will show you the short example P/Invoke in .NET Core on...

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) is not Ubuntu. Out of the box, it seems the default packages installed for developers are somewhat limited. To provide exceptional long-term stability, Red Hat takes a different approach to default packages and software repositories (repos). Development tools aren't installed unless specifically selected. The repos that are initially enabled only contain packages that Red Hat supports over the long term lifecycle of RHEL. Because RHEL’s default repos don’t have as large a selection of development...

Over the last couple of weeks, I've been working on some Red Hat JBoss BPM Suite workshop material. One part of the workshop is a four-hour lab that guides the attendees through the development of JBoss BPM Suite 6.x processes, rules and applications (note that this workshop is available to our customers, please contact your Red Hat account manager or local Red Hat sales representative for more information), but I'm going to be sharing part of the story with you...

Being able to edit your C# (or F# for that matter) code on your Linux VM from Visual Studio in Windows is pretty great. As a Windows developer, you're able to work in an environment you know and trust while still being able to experiment -- and hopefully produce production code -- in Linux, where you may not be quite up to speed. Yet. Visual Studio, that familiar, productive and helpful IDE, is at your fingertips even though your code...

In the process of writing my posts ( #1 and #2) on . NET Core and RHEL, it was made clear to me by several friends that I had neglected to use the de facto standard for continuous integration on Linux, Jenkins. Always happy to try out new (to me) tools, I settled in for what I was assured would be a simple configuration to test out my previous work in this bastion of automation. What is Jenkins? The first...

From a developer’s perspective, “incident management” can be a pretty ambiguous term. While the first thing that comes to mind is receiving and responding to alerts, most IT professionals know it is so much more than that. Effective incident management starts with data collection and continues through alerting, escalation, collaboration, and resolution. At the server level, the most important pieces of incident management are infrastructure monitoring and log management, the vast majority of which are easily configurable on a Red...

Around this time last year, Fedora 22 brought a major update for anyone working under the Fedora hood -- Yum was deprecated and replaced by DNF. It brings some significant changes: Faster, more mathematically correct method for solving dependency resolution A “clean”, well documented Python API with C bindings & Python 3 support Isn’t this a Release by Another Name? No, DNF marks a shift, and not just a fork to Python 3, C support and cleaner docs. The move...

The sheer number of tasks involved in building out automation infrastructure for a new organization never ceases to amaze me. One of the most often overlooked groups of tasks, however, is security. Though I am in no way a security expert, I know there are some basic steps we should take to protect ourselves and our precious systems. I also know that not everyone who administers RHEL systems has an extensive background working with Linux. If, like me, you’re normally...

You obviously know what a LAMP stack is if you’ve managed to find your way here, but for those who may be unsure, the key is in the name (L)inux (A)pache (M)ariaDB (P)HP—a term that has become synonymous around the globe for building a basic web server with database and PHP functionality. There are a myriad of web applications, ranging from Wordpress to Joomla to Magento that all use this setup, and if you know how to get it up...

Wait... what? I was involved in diagnosing a production system performance problem: a web application serving thousands of interactive users was acting up. Symptoms included significant time running kernel code on behalf of the application (unexpectedly), and at those times substantial delays were observed by end users. As someone with a systems programming background, I figured I had a decent shot at figuring this one out. Naively I reached for strace(1), the system call and signal tracer, to provide insights...

The charter of Open Innovation Labs is to help our customers accelerate application development and realize the latest advancements in software delivery, by providing skills, mentoring, and tools. Some of the challenges I frequently hear from customers are those around Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment provisioning and configuration. This article is first in the series of articles that guide you through installation configuration and usage of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) on Amazon Web Services (AWS). This...

Red Hat Software Collections can make your life as a programmer or admin immensely easier. Like death, taxes and zombies, dealing with different versions of software is something you just can't avoid. It's a nasty but necessary fact of life. Traditionally, when developers and system admins grapple with this issue, they have to sacrifice something. If you want to run the latest and greatest version of a web app, it might not support users with outdated browsers. If you install...