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April 30, 2016

DIY OpenShift Cluster

Filed under: Clustering (servers),OpenShift — Patrick Durusau @ 10:53 am

openShiftCluster

No videos are planned for the Neo4j cluster I mentioned in Visual Searching with Google – One Example – Neo4j – Raspberry Pi but that’s all right, Marek Jelen has started a series on building an OpenShift cluster.

Deploying embedded OpenShift cluster (part 1) introduces the project:

In this series we are going to discuss deploying OpenShift cluster on development boards, specifically MinnowBoards. You might be asking, why the hell would I do that? Well, there are some benefits. First, they do have much lower power consumption. In my case, I am using Minnowboards, with light demand, one board takes approximately 3W-4W. Running a cluster of 4 boards including a switch takes 17W, deploying and starting 10 containers adds 1W. But yeah, that does not include fast disks. But that will come as well. Next benefit is the form factor. My cluster of four boards has dimensions of 7.5cm x 10.0cm x 8cm, about the size of a pack of credit cards. Quite a powerful cluster that can fit pretty much anywhere. The small size bring another benefit – mobility. Do you need computer power on the go? Well, this kind of boards can help solve your problem. Anyway, let’s get on with it.

Lower power consumption and form factor aren’t high on my list as reasons to pursue this project.

Security while learning about OpenShift clusters would be my top reason.

Anything without an air gap between it and outside networks is by definition insecure. Even with air gaps systems can be insecure but air gaps reduce the attack surfaces.

I appreciate Marek’s preference for MinnowBoards but there is a vibrant community around the Raspberry Pi.

Looking forward to the next post in this series!

PS: Physical security is rarely accorded the priority it deserves. Using a MinnowBoard or Raspberry Pi, a very small form factor computer could be installed behind any external firewalls. “PC call home.”

November 4, 2015

It’s Official! Hell Has Frozen Over!

Filed under: .Net,Microsoft,OpenShift,Red Hat — Patrick Durusau @ 1:23 pm

Microsoft and Red Hat to deliver new standard for enterprise cloud experiences

From the news release:

Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq “MSFT”) and Red Hat Inc. (NYSE: RHT) on Wednesday announced a partnership that will help customers embrace hybrid cloud computing by providing greater choice and flexibility deploying Red Hat solutions on Microsoft Azure. As a key component of today’s announcement, Microsoft is offering Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the preferred choice for enterprise Linux workloads on Microsoft Azure. In addition, Microsoft and Red Hat are also working together to address common enterprise, ISV and developer needs for building, deploying and managing applications on Red Hat software across private and public clouds.

I can’t report on the webcast because it requires Flash 10 and I don’t have that on a VM at the moment. Good cyber hygiene counsels against running even “patched” Adobe Flash.

The news release has the key points anyway:


Red Hat solutions available natively to Microsoft Azure customers. In the coming weeks, Microsoft Azure will become a Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider, enabling customers to run their Red Hat Enterprise Linux applications and workloads on Microsoft Azure. Red Hat Cloud Access subscribers will be able to bring their own virtual machine images to run in Microsoft Azure. Microsoft Azure customers can also take advantage of the full value of Red Hat’s application platform, including Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform, Red Hat JBoss Web Server, Red Hat Gluster Storage and OpenShift, Red Hat’s platform-as-a-service offering. In the coming months, Microsoft and Red Hat plan to provide Red Hat On-Demand — “pay-as-you-go” Red Hat Enterprise Linux images available in the Azure Marketplace, supported by Red Hat.

Integrated enterprise-grade support spanning hybrid environments. Customers will be offered cross-platform, cross-company support spanning the Microsoft and Red Hat offerings in an integrated way, unlike any previous partnership in the public cloud. By co-locating support teams on the same premises, the experience will be simple and seamless, at cloud speed.

Unified workload management across hybrid cloud deployments. Red Hat CloudForms will interoperate with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager, offering Red Hat CloudForms customers the ability to manage Red Hat Enterprise Linux on both Hyper-V and Microsoft Azure. Support for managing Azure workloads from Red Hat CloudForms is expected to be added in the next few months, extending the existing System Center capabilities for managing Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Collaboration on .NET for a new generation of application development capabilities. Expanding on the preview of .NET on Linux announced by Microsoft in April, developers will have access to .NET technologies across Red Hat offerings, including Red Hat OpenShift and Red Hat Enterprise Linux, jointly backed by Microsoft and Red Hat. Red Hat Enterprise Linux will be the primary development and reference operating system for .NET Core on Linux.

More details at: The Official Microsoft Blog and the Red Hat Blog.

I first saw this in The Power of Open Source… Microsoft .NET and OpenShift by Chris Morgan.

A small pebble in an ocean of influences and motivations but treating Microsoft fairly during the ISO process for ISO 29500 (I am the editor of the competing ISO 26300) wasn’t a bad idea.

December 14, 2014

Instant Hosting of Open Source Projects with GitHub-style Ribbons

Filed under: Open Source,OpenShift — Patrick Durusau @ 5:15 pm

Instant Hosting of Open Source Projects with GitHub-style Ribbons by Ryan Jarvinen.

From the post:

In this post I’ll show you how to create your own GitHub-style ribbons for launching open source projects on OpenShift.

The popular “Fork me on GitHub” ribbons provide a great way to raise awareness for your favorite open source projects. Now, the same technique can be used to instantly launch clones of your application, helping to rapidly grow your community!

Take advantage of [the following link is broken as of 12/14/2014] OpenShift’s web-based app creation workflow – streamlining installation, hosting, and management of instances – by crafting a workflow URL that contains information about your project.

I thought this could be useful in the not too distant future.

Better to blog about it here than to search for it in the nightmare of my bookmarks. 😉

May 8, 2014

Functional Programming in the Cloud:…

Filed under: Cloud Computing,Functional Programming,Haskell,OpenShift,Red Hat — Patrick Durusau @ 1:07 pm

Functional Programming in the Cloud: How to Run Haskell on OpenShift by Katie Miller.

From the post:

One of the benefits of Platform as a Service (PaaS) is that it makes it trivial to try out alternative technology stacks. The OpenShift PaaS is a polyglot platform at the heart of a thriving open-source community, the contributions of which make it easy to experiment with applications written in a host of different programming languages. This includes the purely functional Haskell language.

Although it is not one of the Red Hat-supported languages for OpenShift, Haskell web applications run on the platform with the aid of the community-created Haskell cartridge project. This is great news for functional programming (FP) enthusiasts such as myself and those who want to learn more about the paradigm; Haskell is a popular choice for learning FP principles. In this blog post, I will discuss how to create a Haskell web application on OpenShift.

Prerequisites

If you do not have an OpenShift account yet, sign up for OpenShift Online for free. You’ll receive three gears (containers) in which to run applications. At the time of writing, each of these free gears come with 512MB of RAM and 1GB of disk space.

To help you communicate with the OpenShift platform, you should install the RHC client tools on your machine. There are instructions on how to do that for a variety of operating systems at the OpenShift Dev Center. Once the RHC tools are installed, run the command rhc setup on the command line to configure RHC ready for use.

Katie’s post is a great way to get started with OpenShift!

However, it also reminds me of why I dislike Daylight Savings Time. It is getting dark later in the Eastern United States but there are still only twenty-four (24) hours in a day! An extra eight (8) hours a day and the stamina to stay awake for them would be better. 😉

Unlikely to happen so enjoy Katie’s post during the usual twenty-four (24) hour day.

February 13, 2014

12 Steps For Teaching…

Filed under: OpenShift,Red Hat,Teaching — Patrick Durusau @ 7:54 pm

12 Steps For Teaching Your Next Programming Class on OpenShift by Katie Miller.

From the post:

The OpenShift Platform as a Service (PaaS) is a valuable resource for running tutorials on web programming, especially if you have a limited budget.

OpenShift abstracts away configuration headaches to help students create shareable applications quickly and easily, for free, using extensible open-source code – as I explained in a previous post.

In this blog post, I will draw on my personal workshop experiences to outline 12 steps for teaching your next programming class with OpenShift Online.

See Katie’s post for the details but as a sneak preview, the twelve steps are:

  1. Try Out OpenShift
  2. Choose Topic Areas
  3. Select Cartridges to Support Your Teaching Goals
  4. Develop a Work Flow
  5. Create and Publish Sample Code Base
  6. Write Workshop Instructions
  7. Determine Account Creation Strategy
  8. Prepare Environments
  9. Trial Workshop
  10. Recruit Helpers
  11. Run Workshop
  12. Share Results and Seek Feedback

An excellent resource for teaching the techie side of semantic integration.

December 24, 2013

How to Host Your Clojure App on OpenShift

Filed under: Clojure,OpenShift — Patrick Durusau @ 5:16 pm

How to Host Your Clojure App on OpenShift by Marek Jelen.

From the post:

Today we shall explore deploying a Clojure application on top of OpenShift. We will use Leiningen to manage the applications. This is not the only way to deploy Clojure applications so I will explore more options in following parts of this (mini)series.

Very much a “hello world” type introduction but it is motivation to sign up for an OpenShift account. (Online accounts are free.)

In fact, to complete the demo you will need an OpenShift account.

After signing up, you can deploy other Clojure apps from the books you got as presents!

Enjoy!

November 11, 2013

Day 14: Stanford NER…

Day 14: Stanford NER–How To Setup Your Own Name, Entity, and Recognition Server in the Cloud by Shekhar Gulati.

From the post:

I am not a huge fan of machine learning or natural text processing (NLP) but I always have ideas in mind which require them. The idea that I will explore during this post is the ability to build a real time job search engine using twitter data. Tweets will contain the name of the company which if offering a job, the location of the job, and name of the contact person at the company. This requires us to parse the tweet for Person, Location, and Organisation. This type of problem falls under Named Entity Recognition.

A continuation of Shekhar’s Learning 30 Technologies in 30 Days… but one that merits a special shout out.

In part because you can consume the entities that other “recognize” or you can be in control of the recognition process.

It isn’t easy but on the other hand, it isn’t free from hidden choices and selection biases.

I would prefer those were my hidden choices and selection biases, if you don’t mind. 😉

November 7, 2013

Learning 30 Technologies in 30 Days…

Filed under: Design,Javascript,OpenShift,Programming — Patrick Durusau @ 9:32 am

Learning 30 Technologies in 30 Days: A Developer Challenge by Shekhar Gulati.

From the post:

I have taken a challenge wherein I will learn a new technology every day for a month. The challenge started on October 29, 2013. Below is the list of technologies I’ve started learnign and blogging about. After my usual work day, I will spend a couple of hours learning a new technology and one hour writing about it. The goal of this activity is to get familiar with many of the new technologies being used in the developer community. My main focus is on JavaScript and related technologies. I’ll also explore other technologies that interest me like Java, for example. I may spend multiple days on the same technology, but I will pick a new topic each time within that technology. Wherever it makes sense, I will try to show how it can work with OpenShift. I am expecting it to be fun and a great learning experience.

The homepage of the challenge that currently points to:

  1. October 29, 2013 – Day 1: Bower—Manage Your Client Side Dependencies. The first day talks about Bower and how you can use it.

  2. October 30, 2013 – Day 2: AngularJS—Getting My Head Around AngularJS. This blog talks about how you can get started with AngularJS. It is a very basic blog and talks about how to build a simple bookshop application.

  3. October 31, 2013 – Day 3: Flask—Instant Python Web Development with Python and OpenShift. This blog introduces Flask–a micro framework for doing web development in Python. It also reviews “Instant Flask Web Development” book and port the sample application to OpenShift.

  4. November 1, 2013 – Day 4: PredictionIO—How to A Build Blog Recommender. This blog talks about how you can use PredictionIO to build a blog recommender.

  5. November 2, 2013 — Day 5: GruntJS—Let Someone Else Do My Tedious Repetitive Tasks. This blog talks about how we can let GruntJS perform tedious tasks on our behalf. It also covers how we can use grunt-markdown plugin to convert Markdown to HTML5.

  6. November 3, 2013 — Day 6: Grails–Rapid JVM Web Development with Grails And OpenShift. This blog talks about how we can use Grails to build web application. Then we will deploy the application to OpenShift.

  7. November 4, 2013 – Day 7: GruntJS LiveReload–Take Productivity To Another Level. This blog talks about how we can use GruntJS watch plugin and live reload functionality to achieve extreme productivity.

  8. November 5, 2013 – Day 8: Harp–The Modern Static Web Server. This blog post will discuss the Harp web server and how to install and use it

  9. November 6, 2103 – Day 9: TextBlob–Finding Sentiments in Text

I encountered the challenge via the Day 4: PredictionIO—How to A Build Blog Recommender post.

The more technologies you know the broader your options for creation and delivery of topic map content to users.

April 13, 2012

How to get Solr Up and Running On OpenShift

Filed under: OpenShift,Solr — Patrick Durusau @ 4:44 pm

How to get Solr Up and Running On OpenShift by Shekhar Gulati.

Brief and to the point guide for Solr on OpenShift.

Curious, do you know of a listing of all the public clouds? Occurs to me that a listing of recent installation installations for all of them for Solr, for example, would be a good thing.

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