Cloud Native Starter on Red Hat OpenShift 4

January 23, 2020 (5 min read)

I have written about Cloud Native Starter many times in this blog. It is a project created by Niklas Heidloff, Thomas Südbröcker, and myself that demonstrates how to get started with cloud-native applications and microservice based architectures. We have started it on Minikube, and ported it to IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service and to Red Hat OpenShift in the form of Minishift and Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud, the last two based on OpenShift version 3.

W-JAX 2019 Impressions

November 22, 2019 (2 min read)

I attended the W-JAX 2019 conference beginning of November in Munich. It is a big conference for software developers and had somewhere between 1300 and 1500 participants. Here are some impressions and pictures.

Installing Istio 1.4 - New version, new methods

November 21, 2019 (2 min read)

The latest release of Istio – 1.4.x – is changing the way Istio is installed. There are now two methods, the method using Helm will be deprecated in the future:

OpenShift Service Mesh aka Istio on CodeReady Containers

September 17, 2019 (5 min read)

Last week I wrote about running OpenShift 4 on your laptop. This is using CodeReady Containers (CRC) and deploys a full Red Hat OpenShift into a single VM on a workstation.

Red Hat OpenShift 4 on your laptop

September 13, 2019 — Modified: Mar 22, 2022 (3 min read)

I use Minishift on my laptop and have blogged about it. Minishift is based on OKD 3.11, the Open Source upstream version of OpenShift. An update of Minishift to OpenShift 4 never happened and wasn’t planned. I haven’t actually seen OKD 4.1 except for some source code.

Deploy a Database into a Kubernetes Cluster with an Operator

August 22, 2019 (3 min read)

Kubernetes Operators are a Kubernetes extension that was introduced by CoreOS. On their website they explain it like this: