Last week IBM announced the general availability of Watson NLP and Watson Speech. You can now run these services via containers everywhere. I’ve created a short video that describes how complete s...
Configuring the TechZone Toolkit
With the TechZone Toolkit software like OpenShift can be set up in the cloud including custom applications by using automation via Terraform and Argo CD. This article describes how to configure the...
IBM announces Embeddable AI
Over the last months I have worked on a new initiate from IBM called Embeddable AI. You can now run some of the Watson services via containers everywhere. Watch the short video on the Embeddable A...
Introducing IBM's Toolkit to handle Everything as Code
Terraform is a popular tool to set up infrastructure declaratively. Argo CD is a popular tool to manage Kubernetes resources via GitOps. To set up and manage complete solutions, these tools can be ...
Deploying Kubernetes Resources via GitOps
Infrastructure as Code is an important concept of DevOps. With GitOps tools like Argo CD, not only infrastructure can be handled as code, but also custom applications and other Kubernetes resources...
Setting up IBM Software with Terraform
Automation is key when developing and deploying software. Community is key to get support, to find samples and more. This is why I like Terraform which is a great tool to automate infrastructure on...
IBM helps Partners to scale their Businesses
IBM Build Labs helps IBM partners to scale their businesses and to reach new markets. I am very proud that our team has produced two reference architectures to accomplish this: Kubernetes Oper...
Home Improvements
Over the last two Corona years I have spent some time with home improvements on weekends. A lot of fun! Unfortunately I didn’t document all steps, but the pictures below give an idea of the involv...
40 Blogs in 40 Days
Many IBM partners want to understand how to scale their offerings to reach new markets. Technically this often translates to two technologies: Kubernetes Operators and SaaS (Software as a Service)....
Scaling Applications automatically with Operators
The real power or Kubernetes operators are not day 1 tasks like the initial deployments, but the automation of day 2 operations. This article describes a sample operator that scales up an applicati...