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Speakers Announced for upcoming Virtual OpenShift Commons Gathering @ Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience on April 27th

dmueller@redhat.com (Diane Mueller) — Wed, 08 Apr 2020 15:09:58 GMT

Check out the agenda for the OpenShift Commons Gathering on April 27th!

THIS OPENSHIFT COMMONS GATHERING FEATURES:

Production OpenShift Kubernetes Case Studies from SulAmérica, Deutsche Bahn, Public Health England, DTCC, PNC and BBVA
Fireside Chat with Red Hat's new CEO Paul Cormier
On-Demand Technical Road Maps and “State of” Briefings with Project Leads from across the OpenShift ecosystem.
Day-long live Chat channel with speakers & conference participants
AMA Session with Red Hat Product Managers, Engineers and Architects

The OpenShift Commons Gathering at Red Hat Summit brings together experts from all over the world to discuss the container technologies, operators, the operator framework, best practices for cloud-native application developers and the open source software projects that underpin the OpenShift ecosystem to help take us all to the next level in cloud-native computing. This Virtual Gathering will feature a discussion of best practices, lessons learned, and the open source projects that support OpenShift and Kubernetes--all from project leads with production enterprise deployments.

The OpenShift Commons Virtual Gathering is included free with your Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience registration. Pre-registration is required to access the Virtual OpenShift Commons Gathering, on April 27 from 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. ET.

There will be live Chat and Q/A during the sessions and we are hosting a live AMA session with Red Hat OpenShift product managers, engineers, and architects at the end of the day!

HERE'S THE LATEST UPDATED AGENDA

9:00 a.m.	Welcome to the Commons: Cross-Community Collaboration in Action	Diane Mueller (Red Hat)
9:05 a.m.	Fireside Chat with Red Hat CEO Paul Cormier	Paul Cormier and Diane Mueller (Red Hat)
9:20 a.m.	OpenShift 4.x and Beyond	Marc Curry, Jessica Forrester , + Alex Crawford (Red Hat)
10:20 a.m.	Customer Keynote: Public Health England	Francesco Giannoccaro (PHE)
10:50 a.m.	Production OpenShift Case Study @SulAmérica	Kadu Barral (SulAmérica) +Laio Matias (Red Hat)
11:20 a.m.	Production OpenShift Case Study @DeutscheBahn	Gabriel Ferraz Stein (Red Hat) + Thomas AF Krause + Gualter Baptista (DB)
11:50 a.m.	Production OpenShift Case Study @DTCC	Jason Olmsted (DTCC); Louis Santillan + Balazs Szeti (Red Hat)
12:20 p.m.	State of DevSecOps and Business Continuity	John Willis (Red Hat) and John Rzeszotarski (PNC)
12:50 p.m.	State of OpenShift on OpenStack	Ramon Acedo Rodriguez (Red Hat)
1:20 p.m.	Production OpenShift on OpenStack Case Study @BBVA	Daniel Parkes + Mikel Olasagasti Uranga (Red Hat)
2:00 p.m.	AMA Panel with OpenShift PM and Engineering team members	Joe Fernandes (Red Hat)
3:00 p.m.	The Road Ahead: OpenShift, Kubernetes and Beyond	Diane Mueller (Red Hat)

All times are subject to change, so please check back here for updates.

To stay abreast of all the latest releases and events, please join the OpenShift Commons and join our mailing lists & slack channel.

This OpenShift Commons Gathering will feature some of the brightest technical minds in cloud technology discussing the future of OpenShift and its related upstream open source projects. With OpenShift Container Platform quickly gaining adoption around the world, the OpenShift Commons Gathering offers talks from upstream project leads, and case studies from users across multiple industries and use cases.

Highlights of the upcoming Virtual Gathering include updates on the upcoming Red Hat OpenShift 4.x release. With the move to Operators, many of the talks at this upcoming Gathering focus on the usage and creation of Kubernetes Operators. Red Hat's CEO Paul Cormier, will also be addressing the audience in a fireside chat format, discussing the implications of Kubernetes, OpenShift, and the digital transformation for enterprises around the world. Attendees will have the opportunity to live chat with leading OpenShift and Kubernetes technologists from multiple open source upstream communities.

WHERE:

Virtual OpenShift Commons Gathering part of the Red Hat Summit Virtual Experience

WHEN:

April 27th, 2020 Starting at 9:00 am Eastern Standard Time

Registration fee: FREE

What is OpenShift Commons?

Commons builds connections and collaboration across OpenShift communities, projects, and stakeholders. In doing so we'll enable the success of customers, users, partners, and contributors as we deepen our knowledge and experiences together.

Our goals go beyond code contributions. Commons is a place for companies using OpenShift to accelerate its success and adoption. To do this we'll act as resources for each other, share best practices and provide a forum for peer-to-peer communication.

Join OpenShift Commons today!

Cost Management and OpenShift - Sergio Ocón-Cárdenas (Red Hat)

dmueller@redhat.com (Diane Mueller) — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 22:27:55 GMT

In this OpenShift Commons Briefing, Red Hat Spain’s Sergio Ocón-Cárdenas covers the basic principles of Cost Management, Why it is important and Why you should care about it. We also get a preview of new SaaS capabilities coming soon in Red Hat OpenShift.

Sergio demonstrates the main concepts about cost management for OpenShift deployments as well as the major challenges faced while dealing with it. He also covered tagging, differences between using tags in OpenShift and in other clouds, like AWS or Azure and provided tips and best practices. We also learned how to properly manage, understand, forecast and estimate budgets not only in your container platform but in your multi-cloud deployment.

Slides are available here.

Get Started Today!

Available today to any OpenShift 4.3+ customer
Getting Started with Cost Management guide
Configure advanced features:

Use tagging to map costs to projects (review this blog for tagging guidelines)
Use cost models to distribute costs more accurately

Questions?

Email us at costmanagement@redhat.com with any questions

To stay abreast of all the latest releases and events, please join the OpenShift Commons and join our mailing lists & slack channel.

What is OpenShift Commons?

Commons builds connections and collaboration across OpenShift communities, projects, and stakeholders. In doing so we’ll enable the success of customers, users, partners, and contributors as we deepen our knowledge and experiences together.

Our goals go beyond code contributions. Commons is a place for companies using OpenShift to accelerate its success and adoption. To do this we’ll act as resources for each other, share best practices and provide a forum for peer-to-peer communication.

Join OpenShift Commons today!

State of Container Security – Urvashi Mohnani and Sally O’Malley (Red Hat)

dmueller@redhat.com (Diane Mueller) — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:15:40 GMT

Linux Containers continue to rapidly proliferate in the software industry. With the vast amount of solutions pertaining to containers out there, it is important to note the various security features that each provide. In this Briefing, Red Hat’s Urvashi Mohnani and Sally O’Malley introduced four emerging container tools, Buildah, Podman, Skopeo, and CRI-O, and spoke about the security benefits that each project has to offer. They demonstrate recent updates that have been added to each project and also discuss how each tool is being used in OpenShift throughout the stack. Further, they assess the security improvements each project provides as well as demonstrate some cool features unique to each of these tools.

Slides are available here.

Additional Resources:

Open Repository for Container Tools & Demo Scripts: https://github.com/containers
OCI hooks to generate seccomp Profiles: https://github.com/containers/oci-seccomp-bpf-hook
Pod Manager tool (podman): https://podman.io/
Buildah tool for Open Container Initiative (OCI) container images: https://buildah.io/

Coloring Books:

SELinux: https://github.com/mairin/selinux-coloring-book

Container Commandos: https://github.com/mairin/coloringbook-container-commandos

To stay abreast of all the latest releases and events, please join the OpenShift Commons and join our mailing lists & slack channel.

What is OpenShift Commons?

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State of OpenShift Container Storage – Eran Tamir and Duncan Hardie (Red Hat)

dmueller@redhat.com (Diane Mueller) — Fri, 03 Apr 2020 16:11:13 GMT

Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage is software-defined storage integrated with and optimized for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform. OpenShift Container Storage 4.2 is built on Red Hat Ceph® Storage, Rook, and NooBaa to provide container native storage services that support block, file, and object services.

In this OpenShift Commons Briefing, Red Hat’s Duncan Hardie and Eran Tamir explain Red Hat has rearchitected OpenShift to bring the power of Kubernetes Operators to transform our enterprise-grade Kubernetes distribution with automating complex workflows, i.e. deployment, bootstrapping, configuration, provisioning, scaling, upgrading, monitoring and resource management. In conjunction, OpenShift Container Storage 4.2 transforms the cloud storage customer experience by making it easier for Red Hat customers to install, upgrade and manage storage on OpenShift.

Slides are available here.

Resources and Feedback

To find out more about OpenShift Container Storage or to take a test drive, visit https://www.openshift.com/products/container-storage/.

If you would like to learn more about what the OpenShift Container Storage team is up to or provide feedback on any of the new 4.2 features, take this brief 3-minute survey.

To stay abreast of all the latest releases and events, please join the OpenShift Commons and join our mailing lists & slack channel.

What is OpenShift Commons?

Join OpenShift Commons today!

State of OKD4 Beta - Christian Glombek and Vadim Rutkovsky (Red Hat)

dmueller@redhat.com (Diane Mueller) — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 20:26:09 GMT

In this OKD Working Group Briefing, OKD-WG co-chairs, Christian Glombek and Vadim Rutkovsky (Red Hat) give an update on the OKD 4.4 Beta Release along with an introduction to Fedora CoreOS and an explanation of OKD 4 architecture. The Briefing also includes insights into the Road Ahead for OKD and how to get involved in the OKD community.

Slides available here.

Additional Resources:

OKD Latest Documentation: https://docs.okd.io/latest/welcome/index.html

Slack channel: #openshift-dev in Kubernetes Slack: https://slack.kubernetes.io/

Open your OKD issues: https://github.com/openshift/okd

Find new OKD versions, changelogs: https://origin-release.svc.ci.openshift.org/

OKD WG Bi-Weekly Meeting Details: https://github.com/openshift/community/projects/1

OKD-WG YouTube Play list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzivtqfDMMI&list=PLaR6Rq6Z4Iqc3WjZB-rUTPru8RKyOCnBo

To stay abreast of all the latest releases and events, please join the OpenShift Commons and join our mailing lists & slack channel.

What is OpenShift Commons?

Join OpenShift Commons today!

OKD WG Briefing: Deploying OKD4 on Azure with Josef Meier ( Rohde and Schwarz)

dmueller@redhat.com (Diane Mueller) — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 19:30:25 GMT

In this OKD Working Group Briefing, OKD-WG member, Josef Meier (Rohde and Schwarz) walks us through deploying OKD 4.4 Beta Release on Azure and shares his lessons learned, workarounds that were required (but have since been fixed). Josef reassures us that installation of OKD 4 Beta currently is possible on Azure even if it takes sometimes a few attempts, that his hack/script will not be necessary anymore once the FCOS image is made available on the Azure Marketplace and that it’s lots of fun to work with OKD4!

Slides are available here.

Additional Resources:

OKD Latest Documentation: https://docs.okd.io/latest/welcome/index.html

Slack channel: #openshift-dev in Kubernetes Slack: https://slack.kubernetes.io/

Open your OKD issues: https://github.com/openshift/okd

Find new OKD versions, changelogs: https://origin-release.svc.ci.openshift.org/

OKD WG Bi-Weekly Meeting Details: https://github.com/openshift/community/projects/1

OKD-WG YouTube Play list: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzivtqfDMMI&list=PLaR6Rq6Z4Iqc3WjZB-rUTPru8RKyOCnBo

To stay abreast of all the latest releases and events, please join the OpenShift Commons and join our mailing lists & slack channel.

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Guide to Installing an OKD 4.4 Cluster on your Home Lab

dmueller@redhat.com (Diane Mueller) — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 17:46:00 GMT

Take OKD 4, the Community Distribution of Kubernetes that powers Red Hat OpenShift, for a test drive on your Home Lab.

Craig Robinson at East Carolina University has created an excellent blog explaining how to install OKD 4.4 in your home lab!

What is OKD?

OKD is the upstream community-supported version of the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform (OCP). OpenShift expands vanilla Kubernetes into an application platform designed for enterprise use at scale. Starting with the release of OpenShift 4, the default operating system is Red Hat CoreOS, which provides an immutable infrastructure and automated updates. OKD’s default operating system is Fedora CoreOS which, like OKD, is the upstream version of Red Hat CoreOS.

Instructions for Deploying OKD 4 Beta on your Home Lab

For those of you who have a Home Lab, check out the step-by-step guide here helps you successfully build an OKD 4.4 cluster at home using VMWare as the example hypervisor, but you can use Hyper-V, libvirt, VirtualBox, bare metal, or other platforms just as easily.

Experience is an excellent way to learn new technologies. Used hardware for a home lab that could run an OKD cluster is relatively inexpensive these days ($250–$350), especially when compared to a cloud-hosted solution costing over $250 per month.

The purpose of this step-by-step guide is to help you successfully build an OKD 4.4 cluster at home that you can take for a test drive. VMWare is the example hypervisor used in this guide, but you could use Hyper-V, libvirt, VirtualBox, bare metal, or other platforms.

This guide assumes you have a virtualization platform, basic knowledge of Linux, and the ability to Google.

Check out the step-by-step guide here on Medium.com

Once you’ve gain some experience with OpenShift by using the open source upstream combination of OKD and FCOS (Fedora CoreOS) to build your own cluster on your home lab, be sure to share your feedback and any issues with the OKD-WG on this Beta release of OKD in the OKD Github Repo here: https://github.com/openshift/okd

Additional Resources:

To report issues, use the OKD Github Repo: https://github.com/openshift/okd
For support check out the #openshift-users channel on k8s Slack
The OKD Working Group meets bi-weekly to discuss development and next steps. Meeting schedule and location are tracked in the openshift/community repo.
Google group for okd-wg: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/okd-wg

This should get you up and going. Good luck on your journey with OpenShift!

OpenShift Commons Briefing: Bringing OpenShift to IBM Cloud with Chris Rosen (IBM)

dmueller@redhat.com (Diane Mueller) — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 17:42:00 GMT

In this briefing, IBM Cloud’s Chris Rosen discusses the logistics of bringing OpenShift to IBM Cloud and walk us thru how to make the most of this new offering from IBM Cloud.

Red Hat OpenShift is now available on IBM Cloud as a fully managed OpenShift service that leverages the enterprise scale and security of IBM Cloud, so you can focus on developing and managing your applications. It’s directly integrated into the same Kubernetes service that maintains 25 billion on-demand forecasts daily at The Weather Company.

Chris Rosen walks us thru how to

Enjoy dashboards with a native OpenShift experience, and push-button integrations with high-value IBM and Red Hat middleware and advanced services.
Rely on continuous availability with multizone clusters across six regions globally.
Move workloads and data more securely with Bring Your Own Key; Level 4 FIPS; and built-in industry compliance including PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, SOC1 and SOC2.
Start fast and small using one-click provisioning and metered billing, with no long-term commitment

Slides here: Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud – Webinar – 2020-03-18

Additional Resources:

Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Cloud: https://www.ibm.com/ca-en/cloud/openshift
Documentation: https://cloud.ibm.com/docs/openshift?topic=openshift-service-arch
Get Started Tutorials: https://www.ibm.com/cloud/openshift/get-started

To stay abreast of all the latest releases and events, please join the OpenShift Commons and join our mailing lists & slack channel.

What is OpenShift Commons?

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OpenShift Commons Briefing: Workload Consistency During Ceph Updates and Adding New Storage Devices with Red Hat’s Sagy Volkov

Karena Angell — Thu, 19 Mar 2020 17:07:00 GMT

This is the second briefing of the “All Things Data” series of OpenShift Commons briefings. Future briefings are Tuesdays at 8:00am PST, so reach out with any topics you’re interested in and remember to bookmark the OpenShift Commons Briefing calendar !

In this second briefing for the “All Things Data” OpenShift Commons series, Red Hat’s Sagy Volkov gave a live demonstration of an OpenShift workload remaining online and running while Ceph storage updates and additions were being performed. This workload resilience and consistency during storage updates and additions is crucial to maintaining highly available applications in your OpenShift clusters.

Additional Resources:

OpenShift Container Storage: openshift.com/storage

Product Documentation for Product Documentation for Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.2

Feedback:

To find out more about OpenShift Container Storage or to take a test drive, visit https://www.openshift.com/products/container-storage/.

If you would like to learn more about what the OpenShift Container Storage team is up to or provide feedback on any of the new 4.2 features, take this brief 3-minute survey.

OpenShift Commons Briefing: JupyterHub on-demand (and other tools) with Red Hat’s Guillaume Moutier and Landon LaSmith

Karena Angell — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 16:39:00 GMT

Welcome to the first briefing of the “All Things Data” series of OpenShift Commons briefings. We’ll be holding future briefings on Tuesdays at 8:00am PST, so reach out with any topics you’re interested in and remember to bookmark the OpenShift Commons Briefing calendar !

In this first briefing for the “All Things Data” OpenShift Commons series, Red Hat’s Guillaume Moutier and Landon LaSmith demo’d how to easily integrate Open Data Hub and OpenShift Container Storage to build your own data science platform. When working on data science projects, it’s a guarantee that you will need different kinds of storage for your data: block, file, object.

Open Data Hub (ODH) is an open source project that provides open source AI tools for running large and distributed AI workloads on OpenShift Container Platform.

OpenShift Container Storage (OCS) is software-defined storage for containers that provides you with every type of storage you need, from a simple, single source.

Briefing Slides: ODH on OCS

Additional Resources:

Culture of innovation: Open Data Hub

Open Data Hub Community Project Website: opendatahub.io

OpenShift AI/ML Resources: openshift.com/ai-ml

Product Documentation for Product Documentation for Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.2

Feedback:

To find out more about OpenShift Container Storage or to take a test drive, visit https://www.openshift.com/products/container-storage/.

If you would like to learn more about what the OpenShift Container Storage team is up to or provide feedback on any of the new 4.2 features, take this brief 3-minute survey.