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I’ve been a Lisp guy since undergraduate days, and in the JVM phase of my career that has meant Clojure. Though it’s been many years since I coded as a day job, Clojure is my go-to for playing around to see how things work. This often makes for an extra bit of fun since there isn’t always a previously-blazed path for Clojure.

In this part, we’re going to get your ASP.NET application (as created in Part 1 and Part 2) up and running on OpenShift. If you are new to OpenShift, here is an explanation of how it uses Containers and Kubernetes to build a platform for your to run your application.

In the OpenShift v2 days, we used Action Hooks to initialize a database with test data. OpenShift 3.x also provides pod lifecycle hooks that can be leveraged to initialize the database after the database starts inside a pod. This blog explains the ... [More] approach using pod lifecycle hooks. In this blog, I am using MYSQL database as an example. A similar approach can be used with other databases. [Less]

Over the course of the past few weeks, I have been gathering feedback around Image Streams. This feature can cause a lot of misunderstanding and confusion, even for long-time users. As a maintainer of this feature, I felt obligated to explain in ... [More] detail what Image Streams are, and how regular users can benefit from using them. Hopefully, this article will help you to understand Image Streams better. [Less]

I’ve been working with the radanalytics.io big data examples for OpenShift recently and every once in a while I would be on a slow network and plagued with inconsistency in deploys to get the entire example running. I finally reached out for help and got some great debugging advice so I wanted to share some […]

In part 1, we setup a basic service using ASP.NET where we had a couple of cats making cat sounds. That's fine for one or two cats, but what if we want to have a horde of cats?

In this post, we show a way to configure New Relic to monitor an application running on OpenShift Container Platform. The repository includes a customized assemble script for Tomcat/JBoss EWS 8 that instruments an application using a New Relic Java ... [More] Agent. The script for downloading and layering in New Relic Agent is baked into this assemble script. [Less]

In parts 1 & 2 of this tutorial, I’ll be going over getting started quickly by using templates in Visual Studio Community 2015. This means that it’ll be for Windows in this part. However, I’ll go more in-depth with doing everything without ... [More] templates in Visual Studio Code in a following tutorial, which will be applicable to Linux or Mac as well as Windows. If you’re not using Windows, you can still follow along in parts 1 & 2 to get a general idea of how to create a REST endpoint in .NET Core. [Less]

This edition of the OpenShift Commons Gathering will focus on talks by end users with production deployments of OpenShift sharing their use cases, lessons learned and best practices with experts from all over the world to discuss container ... [More] technologies, best practices for cloud native application developers and the open source software projects that underpin the OpenShift ecosystem to help take OpenShift to the next level in cloud native computing. [Less]

In this briefing, Andrew Randall, CEO of Tigera discusses how Project Calico solution differs from traditional solutions like OpenShift SDN, and explains how Calico is now integrated with Kubernetes and OpenShift to provide a smooth deployment experience, and lessons learned across hundreds of enterprise users.