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.
Create an edge route for an example application on a Red Hat OpenShift Cluster on IBM Cloud
the content, with some small modifications, to my existing example application. It's the same application I used in this blog post Using the internal OpenShift container registry to deploy an application.
Start with CICD using the Cloud Native Toolkit from the IBM Garage
Today's blog post is about the awesome IBM Garage Cloud Native Toolkit to support continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD).
How to configure the IBM Cloud Operator for an existing Cloudant service?
That example shows how to bind an existing Cloudant service instance in IBM Cloud to an application running in Red Hat OpenShift.
Write your first simple Kubernetes Operator
Even a student with minimal knowledge of Kubernetes should be able to install a highly complex container-based application on top of Kubernetes or OpenShift. Eliminate the manual interaction effort as much as possible to deploy, run, and maintain your containerized application on Kubernetes or OpenShift with your Operator implementation.