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 h...

This article describes how to set up LogDNA for OpenShift on the IBM Cloud. There are multiple ways to do logging with OpenShift. In my article OpenShift Logging Quick Start I described how to set...

This article describes how to deploy local applications to OpenShift with the OpenShift ‘oc’ CLI (command line interface). The complete source code of the scenarios below is available as open sour...

This article describes an easy way for developers to deploy Kafka on Red Hat OpenShift. Managed Services There are multiple ways to use Kafka in the cloud. One way is to use IBM’s managed Event S...

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. OpenShift provides logging capabilities built into the platform to ...

This article describes an easy way for developers to deploy PostgreSQL (or Postgres) on Red Hat OpenShift. Managed Services There are multiple ways to use Postgres in the cloud. One way is to use...

This article describes an easy way for developers to deploy IBM’s Db2 databases on Red Hat OpenShift. Managed Services There are multiple ways to use Db2 in the cloud. One way is to use IBM’s man...

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. Abstract Are you cur...

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 ...

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...