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March 22, 2024

Using Ansible to configure observability service in Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

Observability service is one of the capabilities provided by Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes that helps platform engineering teams monitor and observe the health and capacity of…

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March 22, 2024

Using Ansible for installing and configuring Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes (RHACM)

In my current role I'm always having a ton of conversations with customers regarding Kubernetes fleet management and managing clusters at scale in hybrid cloud environments. While we have a lot of…

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January 30, 2024

Automating provisioning of EKS Clusters with Crossplane

I've been hearing a lot about Crossplane for over a year now and recently I got a chance to try it out, specifically resource composition capabilities. In this post I'll go over how I used these…

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January 26, 2024

Run container vulnerability scans and build time policy checks from Github actions workflow

I recently posted about a custom github action that can be leveraged to install roxctl which is a command line utility that ships with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes. If you haven't…

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January 23, 2024

Running roxctl commands from github actions workflows

If you are a kubernetes developer and you are using Github and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for kubernetes, you are going to find yourselves having to run roxctl from your CICD pipelines. If you…

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January 22, 2024

Network policy management with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Security for Kubernetes

In kubernetes by default all ingress and egress traffic are allowed on all pods running in a cluster. From a zero trust security standpoint this is a bad thing because once a POD within a cluster is…

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January 15, 2024

Using Amazon Elastic File System as persistent storage for Kubernetes workloads

I wanted to test mounting Amazon Elastic File System as persistent storage for containerized microservices running on kubernetes and realized there are lot of infrastructure pieces that most…

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January 12, 2024

Deploying ARO Clusters with Pulumi and Infrastructure as code

In this post I'm going to walk through deploying Azure RedHat OpenShift clusters with Pulumi and Infrastructure as code. I'm going to assume that you are familiar with Pulumi. If you are new to…

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December 15, 2023

Multi cluster deployments with GitOps and Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

One of the problems I've seen with most customers making a move from monolith to microservices is around deployment. Typically all of the logic of deploying to kubernetes clusters are baked into CICD…

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December 10, 2023

Configuration management with Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes

We see most customers deploying kubernetes clusters in multiple on-premises sites, multiple clouds and even on the edge with that comes a set of challenges such as

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July 25, 2022

Eight reasons why I would build my digital applications platform on OpenShift

A good solid digital applications platform is the foundation of any successful Digital Transformation and Application Modernization initiatives. Large enterprises often invest in this area as they…

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July 20, 2022

Building Digital applications platform with a Product mindset

A good solid digital applications platform is the foundation of any successful Digital Transformation and Application Modernization initiatives. Large enterprises often invest in this area as they…