Published in FAUN Publication·Sep 7, 2020Lab and demo using the new Operator SDK 1.0.0The Operator Framework XT Edition Lab using the new Operator SDK 1.0.0 I know it sounds like a terrible title for an article about Operators, too close to a typical gaming YouTube channel video, but I’m very excited… Why? Well, I started developing “demo/dummy” operators for research first, then to answer customers' doubts and guide them through the process of developing operators…Operators6 min readOperators6 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Jan 16, 2020Develop an Event Driven Application based on Kafka, Camel K and a Telegram bot on OpenShift step by stepIntro Some months ago I started playing with Camel K, I instantly fell in love with it (and I didn’t have any previous experience with Camel), easy to deploy fast development, tons of components, you name it. As it usually happens (not just to me, right ;-) ) we tech people…Kafka21 min readKafka21 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Mar 21, 2019Could a Kubernetes Operator become the guardian of your ConfigMapsA GitOps-oriented approach — All this started as a by-product of a meeting I had recently with a customer and also from a conversation I had with a partner. Both events triggered the need of managing configuration in a kubernetes namespace, and because I have been invo… Just to give you a bit of…Operators13 min readOperators13 min read
Published in FAUN Publication·Feb 12, 2019Using the Operator Lifecycle Manager to deploy Prometheus on OpenShiftHave you ever needed to install Prometheus or other piece of software on Kubernetes or OpenShift? In general is not a very difficult thing, right? You just process a template, run an image… (At least to a certain extend). …Kubernetes10 min readKubernetes10 min read
Jan 11, 2019From Open API to .Net Core on OpenshiftUsing Apicurio Studio to design a sample inventory API — This is part 1 of a 2-part story about how to move from designing an Open API specification to deploy the sample .Net Core code generated on Red Hat’s Kubernetes platform Openshift. This 2-part story not a .Net Core tutorial, and I’m not a .Net Core/C# expert… what is even…API7 min readAPI7 min read
Dec 12, 2018Going serverless on Openshift with OpenWhiskSet of ‘look ma no server’ demos to enjoy OpenWhisk — A while ago I was proposed to run a tech lab around the ‘serverless’ buzzword. By then I was already aware of the concept (I tried AWS Lambda back in 2015) and actually liked it, but to be honest since those experiments I had had very little contact with serverless…Serverless7 min readServerless7 min read
May 14, 2018Building a Flutter App that fits in with your micro-services strategyA story in three acts — Have you ever waked up at night feeling uneasy and sweaty wondering if your mobile app is a monolith? I have, which makes sense because I spend most of my time fostering container based architectures that help you breaking the monolith in the back-end and the rest of my time…Flutter9 min readFlutter9 min read
