Tag: application containers

What’s New in Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.2.5

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Ben Breard, Senior Technology Product Manager - Linux Containers, Red Hat


RH_atomic_bug_2cBlue_text_cmykIt’s been a busy few weeks for us on the Atomic Host team, and we’re excited to announce the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux Atomic Host 7.2.5! This is a big one too. For those not familiar with our release cadence, we release a new version of Atomic Host every six weeks. This enables us to balance the reliability of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with exciting new features and capabilities from our Project Atomic upstream community in a production ready, supportable manor.

 

Now, let’s walk through some key new features in Atomic Host:

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Container Tidbits: When Should I Break My Application into Multiple Containers?

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Scott McCarty (fatherlinux)

There is a lot of confusion around which pieces of your application you should break into multiple containers and why. I recently responded to this thread on the Docker user mailing list which led me to writing today’s post. In this post I plan to examine an imaginary Java application that historically ran on a single Tomcat server and to explain why I would break it apart into separate containers. In an attempt to make things interesting – I will also aim to

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Test Driving OpenShift with the Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK)

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Adrian Mouat

Ian Crosby

Catalin Jora

Setting up a local development environment that corresponds as close as possible to production can be a time-consuming and error-prone task. However, for OpenShift deployments, we have the Red Hat Container Development Kit (CDK) which does a good job at solving this and also provides a great environment for experimenting with containers and the Red Hat container ecosystem in general.

In this blogpost we will cover deploying applications using the OpenShift Enterprise PaaS that comes with the CDK. The whole process will be driven via the OpenShift CLI, in contrast to our last post which focused on OpenShift’s web interface. If you haven’t yet installed the CDK, check out the previous blog post for instructions.

By the end of this article you will know how to build existing applications on OpenShift, whether they already use

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10-FEB Webcast: Wicked Fast Container-Based Apps and Performance Tuning with Atomic Enterprise Platform

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Kimberly Craven

In a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Red Hat, 44% of IT professionals identified performance in their top three concerns for adopting container technologies. Benchmarks indicate that containers result in equal or better performance than virtual machines in almost all cases, with the runtime costs of containers as “negligible”.

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What are the abstraction costs and what do you need to consider when running container-based applications on Atomic Enterprise Platform Public Preview?

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27-JAN Webcast: Using the Atomic Registry for Secure Container Image Management

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Kimberly Craven

Icon_RH_Hardware_Monitor-Webinar_RGB_ShinyWhen working with container-based applications, admins and developers need a place to store and share container images, a way to deploy them, as well as a way to monitor and administer them once they’re deployed. Join Red Hat software engineers Aaron Weitekamp and Stef Walter for this webcast, Using the Atomic Registry for Secure Container Image Management, on January 27th at 11:00 ET, to gain a better understanding of sharing, deploying, and managing container images.

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Join Us on 12/16 for a Webcast on Getting Started with Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform

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Kimberly Craven

Red Hat recently announced the availability of Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform as a public preview. What key capabilities does Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform provide and what materials are available for you to get started? Attend the webcast on Wednesday, December 16, 2015 from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM (ET), to find out.

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Must-See: Vincent Batts Next Week at DockerCon Europe

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Kimberly Craven

Next week from 16-17 November, many of us are heading to Barcelona for DockerCon Europe 2015. If you’re heading to Barcelona as well, you can learn how developers, dceu15_herooperations, DevOps and sysadmins are using Linux containers. From use cases to roadmaps to tutorials and advanced technical
talks, DockerCon will offer attendees a deep dive into the technology.

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Architecting Containers Part 3: How the User Space Affects Your Application

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Scott McCarty (fatherlinux)

In Architecting Containers Part 1 we explored the difference between the user space and kernel space.  In Architecting Containers Part 2 we explored why the user space matters to developers, administrators, and architects. In today’s post we will highlight a handful of important ways the choice of the user space can affect application deployment and maintenance.

While there are many ways for a given container architecture to affect and/or influence your application, the user space provides tooling that is often overlooked, namely

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Announcing OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 and Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform Public Preview

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Kimberly Craven

This morning, Red Hat announced the general availability of OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 as well as a public preview of Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform. Red Hat’s updated container offerings are:

  • OpenShift Enterprise 3.1, the latest version of Red Hat’s application platform designed to build, deploy and run stateful and stateless applications on private and public cloud infrastructure.
  • Red Hat Atomic Enterprise Platform Public Preview, an optimized container infrastructure platform for deploying, running and managing containers across the enterprise.

Both enable enterprises to develop, integrate, deploy, and manage a variety of applications consistently across a more secure, container-optimized infrastructure. If you’re looking to adopt container-based architectures, OpenShift and Atomic allow you to use Docker-formatted Linux containers to create microservices-based applications and modernize traditional workloads – all with the security of a consistent foundation based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

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4 Reasons to Attend KubeCon Next Week

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Kimberly Craven

Next week, hundreds of Kubernetes enthusiasts are heading to San Francisco for  KubeCon 2015, the first Kubernetes community conference. Why should you attend?

  1. Witness a variety of expert deep technical talks on containers and orchestrating them with Kubernetes.  For example, OpenShift architect Clayton Coleman is presenting “Application Development on a Cloud-Native Platform” at 1:50 p.m. PST, avatar.jpg.320x320pxon Monday, November 9, 2015. In the session, Clayton will cover workflow and tooling for application developers using Kubernetes as a development platform while still allowing developers to manage the lower level components of the system. This talk will show enhancements to core Kubernetes objects, and how they are being moved into the Kubernetes core over time.
  2.  Learn about the future of Platform-as-a-Service.
    PaaS isn’t static; it involves a constantly progressing set of technologies to enable a avatar.jpg.320x320px-1better approach to building and running applications. Ashesh Badani, general manager, OpenShift at Red Hat, is being joined by Google’s Craig McLuckie and others for a panel discussion around the future of Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS). Ashesh is responsible for Red Hat’s PaaS business. Check it out on Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 11:30 a.m. PST.

  3. Get inspired about building highly scalable microservices-based applications.
    KubeCon is your opportunity to avatar.jpg.320x320px-2dig deeper into how to implement microservices. Red Hatter Christian Posta helps you to make microservices a reality with “Microservices aren’t just for unicorns: meet fabric8.io”. At 9 a.m. PST on Wednesday, November 11, 2015, Christian will walk attendees through building microservices with Fabric8 on top of Kubernetes.

  4. Connect with other Kubernetes enthusiasts, including Red Hatters.  Come by Red Hat’s booth (#1) connect with us on container security, orchestration, storage, management, and more. In addition, events outside the main conference track will allow attendees to interact with other Kubernetes enthusiasts.

If you are passionate about building highly scalable microservices-based apps, containerizing traditional apps, and/or are just getting started with Kubernetes, this is an event you won’t want to miss. For more information on KubeCon or to register for the event, please visit https://kubecon.io/.