Containers

As we have discussed in the past, Team Inception has been working on a release engine to automate RPM code deployments within Red Hat IT. On July 8 we passed a significant milestone by successfully using Release Engine in our QA environment. This was an incredible achievement which included a number of feature requests, defect fixes, and collaboration between multiple teams to produce an open source application that will a ddress growing needs internally in Red Hat IT . We...

Flock 2014 (Editor's correction: Flock is a "new, larger and pre-scheduled conference" for North America and Europe) is just a few weeks away and will be hosted in Prague, Czech Republic. The entire list of sessions can be seen here, but below is the list of the 39 sessions delivered by Red Hatters. Have a great conference! WEDNESDAY Matthew Miller: Opening: Fedora Project Leader, Wednesday, August 6 • 08:45 - 09:00 Opening remarks from Fedora Project Leader. Amita Sharma: Fedora...

Excerpts from the original announcement: "Red Hat and Google are both committed to open source and we were both early proponents of Docker as well as key contributors to the Docker project. We are now joining forces to drive a new open standard around orchestrating Docker containers at scale for the management of cloud application deployments. "Today, Red Hat is announcing that as part of Project Atomic, we are collaborating with Google to tackle the challenge of how to manage...

Excerpts from the original article: "Red Hat announced the general availability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5, the third enterprise release of Red Hat's OpenStack offering, designed to serve as the foundation for building OpenStack-powered clouds for advanced cloud users, telecommunications companies, Internet service providers (ISPs), and public cloud hosting providers. "Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 is based on the OpenStack Icehouse release and includes several new features aimed at easing enterprise adoption of OpenStack technology...

You’ve probably already heard of OpenStack, the cloud operating system, where Red Hat is the top company contributor to the project. What you may not know is that Red Hat engineers develop an open source translation management platform called Zanata. When Carlos Munoz from the Red Hat Zanata team heard that OpenStack localization (l10n) team were looking for a new alternative to their current translation platform, he went to the OpenStack Summit in Atlanta to introduce Zanata. Read on for...

As many of you have probably heard, Red Hat announced a new " Docker server" at Summit. The new server is called "Atomic" and details can be found at the project home page. As you all know, I tend to be interested in using Software Collections to ensure the portability of applications. So, putting my foot^W money where my mouth is, I decided to download Atomic, run it as a VM, create a Docker image with a Software Collection, and...

UPDATE: Read the new article " How to run systemd in a container" for the latest information. I have been working on Docker for the last few months, mainly getting SELinux added to help CONTAIN Containers. libvirt-sandbox – virt-sandbox-service For the last couple of years I was working on a different container technology using libvirt-lxc, in addition to my regular SELinux job. I built the virt-sandbox-service tool which would carve up your host system into a bunch of service containers...

Matt Hicks, Red Hat director of OpenShift engineering, ties together these important nascent pieces together for cloud development and deployment. GearD: The Intersection of PaaS, Docker and Project Atomic | Openshift Blog.

Come say hi to the RHEL Developer Program and OpenShift teams at Fluent next week. I think the schedule looks super interesting, but to curate a few that I hope to get to: So many js libraries, so little time, which makes the JavaScript Smackdown! Choosing Your MVC between Angular, Ember, and Backbone look really interesting. Getting a deeper understanding of Angular with: Leveling Up in Angular Red Hat's own Steve Citron-Pousty will be talking about GIS in his talk...

Red Hat has just announced general availability of these long awaited products! It takes a large effort to turn the community code into enterprise quality software that customers and end-users can rely on in production with Red Hat support. It is now a great time for current and potential customers to learn about the product, for partners to start engaging with it and learning the nuts and bolts, and for the open source community and Red Hat to receive all...

Announcement: "Hortonworks and Red Hat Deepen Strategic Alliance" Here are some highlights from Monday's announcement: "Immediate initiatives that are included in the expanded Hortonworks and Red Hat strategic alliance include "Data architects will be able to combine data in a single, scalable open source repository. Available in beta software version, the Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP) combined with Red Hat Storage provides a secure and resilient general-purpose storage pool with multiple interfaces, including Hadoop, POSIX and OpenStack Object Storage (Swift). This...

Red Hat brought a LOT of new and excellent application development products and capabilities during 2013, so I thought I would assemble this list for you here in case you missed any. Note that this is not a complete list (and comment if I missed something that you feel should be mentioned), and by the way, it is listed in random order. Red Hat Software Collections general availability. Yes, I will list this first as it's my personal favorite as...

So, yeah, it was in beta testing, but now it's generally available! See the recent Red Hat press release. If you use virtualization in your development (e.g. spinning up VMs for projects), you might find the ability to change proc counts while the guest is running useful. RHEL 6.5 virtualization also adds direct integration with GlusterFS / Red Hat Storage in case you want to play with that in a virtualized test environment. Dynamic storage is definitely getting interesting and...

Let's face it, sometimes slides are painful There are some common issues when I gave presentations: Will my slides file be recognized by the shared computer at the venue? How to share slides with all audiences using different OS? Most important one, how to make my slides smooth and attractive? For the first two questions, PDF might be an acceptable answer. I can upload it to slideshare.net and give out a link to audiences. But everyone knows that's not good...