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Posts in 2020
  • How to add an application to a Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

    Friday, August 07, 2020 in Insights

    During a discussion with a customer, we talked about which steps are necessary to add an application to a services mesh. Which should be no big deal. Unfortunately, there is not a simple guideline how to do that for the Red Hat OpenShift Service …

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  • Unofficial guideline to get the latest and greatest version of Kiali in OpenShift

    Monday, May 18, 2020 in Insights

    During this year’s Red Hat Summit I had the chance to get a glimpse of the latest version of Kiali. This version had some nice features, like the traffic flow of the application graph during a time period (Graph replay). It also contains …

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  • Simple example how to use Istio and Keycloak

    Thursday, May 07, 2020 in Insights

    Some time ago, I did a webinar about the RedHat Service Mesh, which is based on Istio. For this webinar, I prepared a demo application. Among other things, I wanted to show how to do the authentication with JWT token in general and, more specific, …

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  • Debugging Istio

    Thursday, May 07, 2020 in Insights

    In the article, I’m going to describe what we can do, if we configured our application to use Istio, but it is not working like intended. Originally, I wanted to give a detailed description what problems I encountered during the creation of my …

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  • OpenShift 4.3 installation on VMware vSphere with static IPs

    Friday, January 31, 2020 in Insights

    In this article, I will show you how to install Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.3 (OCP) on VMware vSphere with static IPs addresses using the openshift installer in UPI mode and terraform. In contrast to the official OpenShift 4.3 install …

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  • Installing MongoDB on OpenShift

    Tuesday, January 14, 2020 in Insights

    So here is another one of our series Installing Blahblahblah on OpenShift. This time it is about getting MongoDB to run on OpenShift - the way recommended and promoted by the MongoDB guys. The whole setup is still in beta stage as indicated on these …

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Posts in 2019
  • CodeReady Containers on Ubuntu

    Friday, November 29, 2019 in Insights

    With the release of OpenShift 4.x Red Hat left no stone unturned (compared to previous 3.x versions). Among many things Minishift became Red Hat CodeReady Containers. Having been a big fan of Minishift I recently wanted to give CodeReady Containers …

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  • Introduction to AWS CDK

    Monday, November 04, 2019 in Insights

    AWS Cloud Development Kit (CDK) is a relatively new kid on the block. It is a tool for defining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and is considered to be the future successor of AWS CloudFormation. This article overviews the IaC approach, introduces a …

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  • Introduction to Spring Boot and GraphQL for API Design Pt. 2

    Thursday, September 26, 2019 in Insights

    GraphQL is a nice way to publish a highly customizable API. In combination with Spring Boot, which makes development really easy and offers features like database integration and security, you can quickly build your API service from scratch. This is …

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  • Installing GitLab on OpenShift

    Wednesday, July 31, 2019 in Insights

    We recently had to install a bunch of applications on a customer’s shiny new OpenShift 3.11 cluster. Among others also GitLab. Turned out getting GitLab up and running on OpenShift is not so easy. What I found on the Internet about installing …

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