When deploying cloud native applications to different Kubernetes environments it's important to externalize the configuration from the source code. This article lists some techniques and patterns how to do this. (more…)

This article describes how to set up LogDNA for OpenShift on the IBM Cloud. (more…)

This article describes how to deploy local applications to OpenShift with the OpenShift 'oc' CLI (command line interface). (more…)

This article describes an easy way for developers to deploy Kafka on Red Hat OpenShift. (more…)

This article describes how to set up logging in Red Hat OpenShift and how to use it to see logs from microservices in one place. (more…)

This article describes an easy way for developers to deploy PostgreSQL (or Postgres) on Red Hat OpenShift. (more…)

This article describes an easy way for developers to deploy IBM's Db2 databases on Red Hat OpenShift. (more…)

At We Are Developers I gave a talk about my application modernization example which shows how to modernize 10+ year-old Java applications with modern cloud-based technologies. (more…)

This month IBM announced the general availability of IBM Cloud Satellite as well as the general availability of OpenShift on Satellite. This offering is incredibly powerful! It allows companies to leverage benefits from the cloud, but at the same time to run their workloads and to keep their data on-premises. (more…)

Are you curious to learn how to modernize 10 years old Java applications to gain benefits from the cloud? Do you want to try this yourself following step by step instructions? Then you should check out my repo which I'm going to describe in this article and the embedded video. (more…)