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Leveraging Kubernetes and OpenShift for automated performance tests (part 1)

Frédéric Giloux

Part 1 of a series about leveraging OpenShift or Kubernetes for automated performance tests. It provides an overview of the setup for automated performance testing using a container platform. Points to consider when executing and analyzing performance tests are covered.

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Microcontainers for Unit Testing

DJ Delorie

Containers offer new testing opportunities, especially for foundational system software like GLIBC or tests that depend on system changes for exercising code paths

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Upcoming Book: Vert.x in Action (MEAP)

Julien Ponge

Julien Ponge's upcoming book, Vert.x in Action: Asynchronous and Reactive Applications in Java, is now available from the Manning early-access program (MEAP). Read the article for the exclusive Red Hat Developer discount code.

How to install Ansible Tower on Red Hat OpenShift
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How to install Ansible Tower on Red Hat OpenShift

Michele Naldini

How to set up Red Hat Ansible Tower on OpenShift and have it running as a container in minutes. Ansible Tower helps you scale IT automation, manage complex deployments, and improve productivity.

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Welcome Apache Kafka to the Kubernetes Era!

Hugo Guerrero

With the new Apache Kafka Kubernetes operator. Red Hat AMQ Streams delivers the mechanisms for managing Apache Kafka on top of OpenShift, our enterprise distribution for Kubernetes.

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Deploying MicroProfile apps on Microsoft Azure using the Azure Open Service Broker

James Falkner

This post shows how easy it is to link Java MicroProfile apps to Microsoft Azure services through the Open Service Broker for Azure. To do that, it describes the steps for reproducing a demo application, based on the popular game Minesweeper, that was presented at the recently concluded Microsoft Ignite 2018 conference in Orlando.

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EventFlow: Event-driven microservices on OpenShift (Part 1)

Hugo Hiden +2

This post is the first in a series that describes a lightweight cloud-native distributed microservices framework called EventFlow that targets the Kubernetes/OpenShift platforms and models event-processing applications as a connected flow or stream of components. EventFlow can be used to develop event-processing applications that can process CloudEvents, which are an effort to standardise upon a data format for exchanging information regarding events generated by cloud platforms.

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Red Hat Container Development Kit 3.6 now available

Mike Guerette

Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) 3.6 is now available to run an OpenShift/Kubernetes cluster on your laptop for developing cloud- and container-based applications.

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Are App Servers Dead in the Age of Kubernetes? (Part 2)

Ken Finnigan

Given Kubernetes, docker containers and service mesh, are we seeing the start of an imminent decline in the use of application servers? This article explores the use case for application servers and examines why they will continue to evolve.

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Running Microsoft SQL Server on Red Hat OpenShift

Tom Deseyn

This article shows how set up Microsoft SQL Server on Red Hat OpenShift and then use SQL Server to store data for a simple ASP.NET Core application running in a container deployed on OpenShift that manages a list of contacts. It also shows how to manage SQL Server within OpenShift using SQL Operation Studio.

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

Alessandro Arrichiello +1

Podman is an alternative to the Docker command-line interface that lets you run standalone, daemonless containers. See examples of how easy it is to use Podman.

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Setting up RBAC on Red Hat AMQ Broker

Yohanes Widi Sono

This post provides an example of how to configure role-based access control on top of Red Hat AMQ--a flexible, high-performance messaging platform that provides a role-based security model with built-in support for separation of duties.

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Container-native integration testing

Raffaele Spazzoli

It can be complex to set up an end-to-end integration test infrastructure, but the process can be simplified by using an infrastructure-as-code approach. In addition, running integration tests for multiple OS/browser combinations can waste resources and time, but a container orchestrator and ephemeral workloads can help mitigate that. This article shows how to build behavior-driven development (BDD) container-native integration tests and run them in OpenShift to overcome these obstacles.

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Natively compile Java code for better startup time

Faisal Masood

Serverless architectures can benefit from faster startup times. The configuration demonstrated in this article shows how GraalVM can reduce startup time and Docker image size for Java-based programs hosted on container platforms such as Red Hat OpenShift Containter Platform.