This blog post is about automating the creation of a Red Hat OpenShift cluster on IBM Cloud in a Virtual Private Cloud. I used bash scripting with the IBM Cloud CLI and and the associated IBM Cloud CLI plugins vpc-infrastructure and kubernetes-service. I also use jq to handle json output.
10 Hours of Live Recordings, which are built on Experience, about Application Security
It’s awesome we just created 10 hours of live recordings, which are built on experience, about application security. That learning journey was made by the IBM Developer Hybrid Cloud Build Team from IBM and I am a part of that team. We put together great content for you. By the way, I was responsible for the content ;-). I also has been the moderator for most of the sessions and I also gave sessions by myself. The learning journey is called #ApplicationSecurityLearningJourney.
(outdated) Get started with IBM Cloud – a student perspective
In this new blog post I want to address a common situation I see students facing: there are several cloud providers and you want to check out the different platforms. The reason is you want to be prepared; for example working with cloud resources related to courses at your university or for a hackathon. One of these cloud providers is IBM Cloud and this blog post is about how to get started with IBM Cloud.
How to create a new realm with the Keycloak REST API?
In this blog post I want to show, how to create a new realm with Keycloak REST API (Version 10) , because later I want to automate the Keycloak realm creation for a workshop using curl in a bash script. The Keycloak REST API has changed a bit, here is a related blog post for... Continue Reading →
Getting started to secure a simple Java Microservice with Keycloak, MicroProfile and OpenLiberty
The objective of this blog post is to share with you an extract of a "simple" example project on GitHub I created to get started with: How to access a Java Microservice using the Open Source Identity and Access Management with Keycloak and JavaWebToken (JWT). In that project I want to ... ... secure... Continue Reading →
Run a PostgreSQL container as a non-root user in OpenShift
In this blog post I want to point out a simple topic: How to run a simple PostgreSQL Docker image as a non-productive container in OpenShift? As you maybe know, OpenShift doesn't allow by default to run container images as root. The image below shows the result of the simply deployed postgreSQL image from dockerhub. It's possible... Continue Reading →
Setup a MongoDB in less than 4 min on a free IBM Cloud Kubernetes cluster at a Hackathon
In this blog post I want to highlight that I just created a GitHub project and a 10 min YouTube video to "How to setup mongoDB in less than 4 min on a free IBM Cloud Kubernetes cluster at a Hackathon". My objective is to provide a small guide, how to setup a MongoDB server... Continue Reading →
Use distributed Logging for Mircoservices
In this blog post I want to point out that I just created a 9 min YouTube video related to the great Hands-on workshop: Reactive Endpoints with Quarkus on OpenShift. In this video you can watch and follow the steps of the exercise 5 "Use distributed Logging". https://youtu.be/LHncW_HUwFU Let me give you a short preview... Continue Reading →
Deploy a Microservice to OpenShift
In this blog post I want to point out that I just created a 9 min YouTube video related to the great Hands-on workshop: Reactive Endpoints with Quarkus on OpenShift. In this video you can watch and follow the steps of the exercise 4 "Deploy Service to OpenShift". Let me give you a short preview... Continue Reading →
Invoke reactive Endpoints with Quarkus and MicroProfile
In this blog post I want to point out that I just created a 15 min YouTube video related to the great Hands-on workshop: Reactive Endpoints with Quarkus on OpenShift. In this video you can watch and follow the steps of the exercise 3 "Invoke Endpoints reactively". Niklas wrote a great blog post about the... Continue Reading →