Brian J. Atkisson is a Senior Principal Systems Engineer and the technical lead on the Red Hat IT Identity and Access Management team. He has 18 years of experience as a Systems Administrator and Systems Engineer, focusing on identity management, virtualization, systems integration, and automation solutions. He is a Red Hat Certified Architect and Engineer, in addition to his academic background in Biochemistry, Microbiology and Philosophy.
Dan Walsh, of SELinux Coloring Book fame, presented on the work he and his team have been doing with containers. Dan has long been a technical leader in the container and SELinux spaces and is an amazing guy. If you take a moment to think back to the PDF format, it was originally created by Adobe to solve representing a document in a consistent way. However, that is not what made it popular and useful. The power of the PDF...
Mandus Momberg, AWS Partner Solutions Architect, presented mechanisms to integrate OpenShift with AWS native features. Many of these concepts are covered in the Red Hat reference architecture for deploying OpenShift Container Platform 3.5 on AWS. To begin with, if you are running or considering RHEL on AWS, check out the Cloud Access Program. This allows you to convert standard RHEL subscription to cloud access licensing at a ratio of 1:2, 2 cloud VMs for every standard license. A lot of...
John Frizelle, a Mobile Platform Architect at Red Hat, gave a talk on microservices wherein he provided some great advice about microservices. Most importantly, he provided guidance on when, where, and why (or why not) you should deploy them. What are Microservices Microservices are a method of breaking down an application into a suite of small, lightweight services, and are processes that typically communicate over HTTP. Building a single microservice is easy, building a microservice architecture is extremely hard. It...
Rafael Benevides, Director of Developer Experience, at Red Hat spoke on rapidly deploying software on OpenShift with zero downtime. Throwing software over to an operations team to deploy during a scheduled maintenance window is a thing of the past. Businesses simply can no longer afford scheduled downtime. Applications need to be developed such that small, frequent updates can be released continuously via containers. Rafael shows us how to solve this problem with OpenShift. Blue/Green Deployments This is a released strategy...
... with APIs, OpenID, and Microservices, Daria Mayorova and Mark Cheshire from Red Hat 3Scale shared their presentation on how to construct microservice-based applications with the benefits of API management. Some general characteristics of microservices include: componentization via service organized around business capabilities smart endpoints design for failure decoupling of components Typically, microservices are divided into to two general architectural buckets: Inner Architecture Any service communication with other microservices within a larger service boundary (think intra-application communication). Outer Architecture Border...
Part II of the OpenShift.io Developer Tools overview follows on the heels of the introduction session, this time presented by Pete Muir and Gorkem Ercan. In this session, we are taken through the integrated OpenShift.io Eclipse Che IDE. What is a Cloud Workspace? One of the fundamental problems with today's development methodology is that development happens on your laptop-- in a completely different environment from production. This is one of the major sources of bugs as your software is migrated...
Yesterday, at Red Hat Summit, Red Hat announced OpenShift.io. OpenShift.io is the next generation OpenShift platform, based on OpenShift 3, for building and running applications in the cloud. It gives you complete control of your application's lifecycle, from build to production-- regardless of deploying from source or running a pre-built container. In the Developer tools, Overview and Roadmap Part I summit session, Todd Mancini, Peter Muir, and James Strachan take a packed house through an introduction to OpenShift.io (in addition...
Today's announcement of Red Hat OpenShift.io was followed by a full day of developer toolset Summit sessions. These were presented by the OpenShift.io product development team and covered some truly amazing OpenShift.io features. While there are too many features to cover in a single blog post, these were my top 7 items. 1. A Kanban board that is actually useful OpenShift.io is built from the ground up for development teams to rapidly release software. This is one of the primary...
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