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Posts in 2024
  • Removing old Naemon logfiles

    Wednesday, June 05, 2024 in Insights

    In an OMD environment Naemon writes its logfile to var/naemon/naemon.log. At midnight a logrotate job moves the logfile to the folder var/naemon/archive, renaming naemon.log to naemon.log-YYYMMDD. By default none of the archived logs is ever deleted. …

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Posts in 2022
  • Image Change Triggers for Tekton

    Monday, March 14, 2022 in Insights

    One of our customers is in the process of decommisioning their OpenShift v3.11 cluster. This cluster is currently still used for building customer specific base images. Over time quite a few elaborated pipeline builds (based on Jenkins) have been …

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  • Visualisation and debugging of Apache Camel routes

    Thursday, February 24, 2022 in Insights

    The documentation of software is an everyday business of a software developer and engineer. Especially for integration scenarios a diagram on the flow of a message through the system or the whole landscape is an essential illustration. Fortunately …

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  • A look insight Camel K

    Thursday, February 24, 2022 in Insights

    Today software often needs to be run in cloud environments. Newly developed software, especially microservices are developed with cloud readiness in mind. But we not only have microservices in business environments, we also have integration …

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Posts in 2021
  • Streaming and Messaging

    Wednesday, July 14, 2021 in Insights

    Disclaimer This article is the author’s opinion on similarities and differences between Streaming and Messaging. Streaming and Messaging The first time I was busy with the terms messaging and streaming was during my master thesis in 2016. Among …

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  • A journey of a Helm operator to OperatorHub.io and back again

    Monday, May 03, 2021 in Insights

    Some time ago, I started a project to create a Helm based operator for an OpenShift application. I used the Operator SDK to create the Helm operator. The Operator SDK documentation describes the parameters pretty good, and it contains a simple …

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  • A journey of a Helm operator to OperatorHub.io and back again

    Monday, May 03, 2021 in Insights

    Some time ago, I started a project to create a Helm based operator for an OpenShift application. I used the Operator SDK to create the Helm operator. The Operator SDK documentation describes the parameters pretty good, and it contains a simple …

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  • RabbitMQ

    Tuesday, February 09, 2021 in Insights

    The first version of RabbitMQ has been released in 2007. Back in these days, the goal was to provide a complete open source implementation of Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP), aiming at modern messaging needs such as high availability, high …

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  • How to integrate Kafka with Istio on OpenShift

    Tuesday, February 02, 2021 in Insights

    Last summer I watched the Red Hat master course about Kafka from Sébastien Blanc. The Kafka setup in Kubernetes presented in the course looked pretty easy. The Kafka client implementation for Java seemed to be easy as well. Furthermore, I wanted to …

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