Introduction — Introduction Red Hat OpenShift is an enterprise-ready Kubernetes container platform with full-stack automated operations to manage hybrid cloud, multicloud, and edge deployments. Red Hat OpenShift is optimized to improve developer productivity and promote innovation. OpenShift provides some convenient mechanisms for viewing application logs. Firstly, you can view Pod’s logs directly from…

What is observability? — What is observability? “Observability is the ability to infer internal states of a system based on the system’s external outputs.” Over the past few years, and coupled with the growing adoption of microservices, organizations have a critical need to monitor applications. Monitoring is not only about tracking the health of the applications but…

Introduction — Introduction Your application will have different storage requirements based on problem being solved. I will not be discussing storage options, storage classes as there is a lot of information available. Rather I will discuss about storage usage scenarios Your container needs dedicated storage Two or more containers needs to share storage …

Introduction — Introduction OpenShift provides internal CA that can issue certificates for your use to use mTLS authentication between services and encrypt data in transit. Let us take an example of service-A which communicates with service-B. In this case service-B acts as server and service-A is client. Step 1 — Annotate your service You need to annotate service-B so…

I have been working with Kubernetes and OpenShift since few months now. Even when you go through various education sessions, when it comes… — I have been working with Kubernetes and OpenShift since few months now. Even when you go through various education sessions, when it comes to implementation, you will always have unique situations and problems. Every deployment is different and thus requires different ways to solve the problem.

Introduction — Introduction An Operator is a method of packaging, deploying and managing a Kubernetes application. Operators may require different privileges than the resources they create (your application). This article discuss security considerations as you build operator and the application that operator deploys. Lets first look at a couple of basics OpenShift SCC Administrators can…