Quick steps to enable the NFS share in the Azure Storage account. — If you are using Linux file systems, be it as extended shares for your Linux VMs or as persistent storage for your Red Hat OpenShift workloads, they will be required to be compatible with Network File System (NFS) protocol. NFS being cross-platform, offers high-performance sharing capabilities making it ideal for…

With rapid releases of software, you equally need solid automation and security scanning implemented the moment developers are ready to commit code. Whether it is application code or your container images, you must ensure they are protected against vulnerabilities and scanned regularly. …

A quick post on how to get NGINX Ingress Operator working on your OpenShift cluster — NGINX Ingress is a type of Kubernetes ingress resource which lets you load balance services to your workloads on your Kubernetes cluster such as OpenShift. Installing NGINX ingress is similar to other custom resources you install on your cluster. In the Red Hat OpenShift world though, including Azure Red Hat…

In this quick post, we will see how to connect to OpenShift from Azure DevOps with help of Service Accounts and Service Connections. — Azure DevOps does not need another introduction. It consists of powerful services for requirement gathering, building/deploying workloads using automated pipelines, support for multiple source controls (TFVC and Git), and testing and publishing artefacts. We heavily use Azure Pipelines for our build/release activities and currently use it to deploy our microservices…

In this post, we will see how we can disable community operators so that you only bring services from trusted catalog sources. — OpenShift OperatorHub is the marketplace that allows third-party vendors/communities, including Red Hat themselves to offer features/new services to OpenShift consumers. Operators are essentially Kubernetes objects which are packaged and ready to be consumed. Operators are deeply integrated into the OpenShift Container Platform (OCP). …

Ever deleted a user from OpenShift and the user is unable to log in now? In this post, you will see how we can resolve this issue — Recently while experimenting with RBAC in OpenShift, one of our cluster admins, accidentally deleted a user using a web console. When the user (who shouldn’t have been deleted in the first place) tried to log in to the cluster, it would prompt for credentials and authenticate successfully against the identity…

A quick post on enabling podman.sock on macOS — I use Podman to build container images and have been pretty happy with it. Podman has worked great for me on my macOS, and because it has the same commands as the original Docker CLI, so the switch hasn't been difficult at all. However, recently when trying to scan the…

A quick step-by-step guide to installing OpenShift on your local laptop — OpenShift Container Platform is a flagship container platform by RedHat which is hugely popular with many of our customers, especially because its available as managed service in Azure in the form of Azure RedHat OpenShift (ARO) and also available in other cloud providers. As a developer or a member of…

A useful VS Code extension to add entries to your .env files — Do you use .env files to manage your environment variables in your local dev environment? .env Manager is a small VSCode extension to quickly add values to .env file, either selecting a text or running the command. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=onlyutkarsh.envmanager Checkout the quick demo. Usage The extension exposes a command called .env Manager…