Managing disaster recovery with GitOps and Ceph RBD mirroring

Posted on: April 29, 2020

Scott Creeley, Red Hat

Erin Boyd, Red

Ryan Cook, Red Hat

In our previous blog, Managing application and data portability at scale with Rook-Ceph, we talked about some key features of Rook-Ceph mirroring and laid groundwork for future use case solutions and automation that could be enabled from this technology. This post describes recovering from a complete physical site failure using Ceph RBD mirroring for data consistency coupled with a GitOps model for managing our cluster and application configurations along with an external load balancer all working together to greatly minimize application downtime.

This is done by enabling a Disaster Recovery (DR) scenario where the primary site can failover to the secondary site with minimal impact on Recovery Point Objectives (RPO) and Recovery Time Objectives (RTO).

Deploying a full-service 5G network on OpenShift

Posted on: March 24, 2020March 31, 2020

Ricardo Noriega De Soto

Frank Zdarsky

During the last Kubecon North America in San Diego, a cross-vendor team of engineers from Red Hat and several other companies rolled a half-rack of servers and a self-made Faraday cage onto the keynote stage and demoed live a full 5G/4G network connected to two additional deployments in Canada and France, all containerized and running on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform clusters.

This live demo was the culmination of an intense, multi-month community effort supported by Linux Foundation Networking, and we had the honor of working on the site located in France at Eurecom, a research institute on telecommunications, that is the initiator and main contributor to the OpenAirInterface 5G/4G project. In this post we explore how that 5G network was constructed and deployed on the Kubernetes-based open source OpenShift platform.

Using machine learning and analytics to help developers

Posted on: March 5, 2020

Dave Neary

It was the talk title that caught my eye – “Developer Insights: ML and Analytics on src/”. I was intrigued. I had a few ideas of how machine learning techniques could be used on source code, but I was curious to see what the state of the art looked like now. I attended the session at DevConf.cz 2020 by Christoph Görn and Francesco Murdaca of the AI and ML Center of Excellence in Red Hat to hear more.

The first question I had was “where did they come up with the project name Thoth?” My initial guess was that “Thoth” was an ice moon from the Star Wars universe, or maybe a demon from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. It turns out that Thoth is the Ancient Egyptian god of writing, magic, wisdom, and the moon. The Egyptian deity theme runs through the project, with components called Thamos, Kebechet, Amun, and Nepthys, among others.

The set of problems that Thoth aims to solve is an important one. Can we help developers identify the best library to use, by looking at what everyone else is using for a similar job? Can we help identify the source of common performance issues, and suggest speed-ups? Can we create a framework that can enforce compliance, and help minimize risk, as applications grow?

Size matters: how Fedora approaches minimization

Posted on: February 24, 2020February 24, 2020

Brian Proffitt

As part of a modern IT environment, Linux distributions can look to optimizing their size to be better suited for container use. One of the ways this improvement can happen is through reducing the size of a distribution, a process known as minimization. A new tool is being put together that will enable developers and operators to create minimal images of the appropriate size for the container use cases they need.

Graphic represents the relationships between all of the software repositories in Fedora Linux, many thousands of green dots cross-connected to appear like a cloud nebula. — Graphical representation of Fedora repository relationships. Image by: Adam Šamalík

Managing application and data portability at scale with Rook-Ceph

Posted on: February 17, 2020

Scott Creeley, Red Hat

One of the key requirements for Kubernetes in multi-cluster environments is the ability to migrate an application with all of its dependencies and resources from one cluster to another cluster. Application portability gives application owners and administrators the ability to better manage applications for common needs such as scaling out applications, high availability for applications, or just simply backing up applications for disaster recovery. This post is going to present one solution for enabling storage and data mobility in multicluster/hybrid cloud environments using Ceph and Rook.

Containerization and Container Native Storage has made it easier for developers to run applications and get the storage they need, but as this space evolves and matures it is becoming increasingly important to move your application and data around, from cluster to cluster and cloud to cloud.

Kiali: An observability platform for Istio

Posted on: February 10, 2020February 10, 2020

Dave Neary

Istio exists to make life easier for application developers working with Kubernetes. But what about making Istio easier? Well, that’s Kiali’s job. Read on to learn more about making Istio even more pleasant to use.
Deploying and managing microservice applications is hard. When you break down an application into components, you add complexity in how those components communicate with each other. Getting an alert when something goes wrong, and figuring out how to fix it, is a challenge involving networking, storage, and potentially dozens of different compute nodes.

Current Trusted Execution Environment landscape

Posted on: December 2, 2019

axel simon, Red Hat

Lily Sturmann, Red Hat

If you run software on someone’s servers, you have a problem. You can’t be sure your data and code aren’t being observed, or worse, tampered with — trust is your only assurance. But there is hope, in the form of Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs) and a new open source project, Enarx, that will make use of TEEs to minimize the trust you need to confidently run on other people’s hardware. This article delves into this problem, how TEE’s work and their limitations, providing a TEE primer of sorts, and explaining how Enarx aims to work around these limitations. It is the next in a series that started with Trust No One, Run Everywhere–Introducing Enarx.

Scaling workload storage requirements across clusters

Posted on: November 27, 2019November 27, 2019

Jon Cope

A number of multi-cloud orchestrators have promised to simplify deploying hundreds or thousands of high-availability services. But this comes with massive infrastructure requirements. How could we possibly manage the storage needs of a thousand stateful processes? In this blog, we’ll examine how we can leverage these orchestrators to address our dynamic storage requirements.

Currently in Kubernetes, there are two approaches in how a control plane can scale resources across multiple clusters. These are commonly referred to as the Push and Pull models, referring to the way in which configurations are ingested by a managed cluster. Despite being antonyms in name, these models are not mutually exclusive and may be deployed together to target separate problem spaces in a managed multi-cluster environment.

Prometheus anomaly detection

Posted on: November 18, 2019November 19, 2019

Hema Veeradhi

With an increase in the number of applications being deployed on Red Hat OpenShift, there is a strong need for application monitoring. A number of these applications are monitored via Prometheus metrics, resulting in an accumulation of a large number of time-series metrics stored in a TSDB (time series database). Some of these metrics can have anomalous values, which may indicate issues in the application, but it is difficult to identify them manually. To address this issue, we came up with an AI-based approach of training a machine-learning model on these metrics for detecting anomalies.

Sentiment analysis with machine learning

Posted on: November 6, 2019November 6, 2019

Karsten Wade

When developing a new technology, it really helps if you are also a user of that new tech. This has been an approach of Red Hat around artificial intelligence and machine learning — develop openly on one hand, exchanging knowledge across the organization to use the same tools in the other hand to work on interesting business problems. All while keeping a two-way exchange to and from the open source commons.

This is the sort of left-hand/right-hand move that data scientist Oindrilla Chatterjee began using as part of a project she originally started during an internship, then later in a full-time role at Red Hat. Chatterjee and her team are looking at how to do sentiment analysis using machine learning on a dataset consisting of customer and partner surveys regarding a service offering.

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