This post is part of the Red Hat Platform series. If you want the full picture of what we’re building toward, start there. What if we had a situation where our application didn’t run as a container for some reason. What if the Brix Pizzaria ran virtual machines instead? Will our OpenShift platform be capable of managing these as well as our containerized workloads? The short answer is yes. In this post we’ll focus on OpenShift Virtualization and how we can leverage this solution to run our VMs on our existing OpenShift cluster. ...

This post is part of the Red Hat Platform series. If you want the full picture of what we’re building toward, start there. In this post we’ll focus on OpenShift Dev Spaces. Dev Spaces I’d love to tell you that Dev Spaces is a fun new store where you try out the latest ergonomic gadgets. Standing desks with built-in treadmills, kneeling chairs, and expensive vertical mice that look like a clay sculpture would be just some of the things in these pop-up stores. Those of us tied to a desk for way too many hours a day could check out the latest in geek comfort. I hope a place like this exists somewhere, but that’s not what we’re talking about today. ...

This post is part of the Red Hat Platform series. If you want the full picture of what we’re building toward, start there. Here we’re focused on continuous deployment using OpenShift GitOps, which is Red Hat’s supported distribution of ArgoCD. GitOps This post is really about continuous deployments of our sample Brix Pizza application. In a previous post we build a CI/CD pipeline that built our container image automatically after we made changes to the source code and committed it to git. In this case we want to get our application deployed to our Kubernetes cluster. ...

This post is part of a series on OpenShift as a platform. We’re looking at the container foundation here, specifically what OpenShift adds on top of upstream Kubernetes and how Operators turn that into an extensible platform for everything else we’ll cover. Kubernetes is the Engine Kubernetes is the most widely adopted container orchestration system in the world, and OpenShift is built on top of it. But “built on top of” understates what Red Hat has done. Kubernetes is a powerful set of primitives such as a control plane, an API, a scheduler. This is the engine for managing containers on a distributed cluster. But just like your car, the engine while being maybe the most important component, won’t get you to the grocery store alone. You still need tires, a steering wheel, brakes, and a series of other things for your car to be a useful tool. Well, organizations need more than the basic Kubernetes components to run their workloads. This includes things like authentication, observability, security controls, and a console for it to be used for production. ...

I’ve always had this feeling that if we really knew how to do IT “the right way” we wouldn’t have all these different tools and methods. Gitops vs deployment pipelines, declartive vs imperative commands, immutable containers vs mutable virtual machines. Of course over my career I’ve seen that no one method or tool is right for every situation. But I’ve always felt drawn to the utopian idea that there was a single platform everyone used and fit their needs. ...