Note: Red Hat’s Emerging Technologies blog includes posts that discuss technologies that are under active development in upstream open source communities and at Red Hat. We believe in sharing early and often the things we’re working on, but we want to note that unless...
The Red Hat NEXT! conference is Red Hat’s annual event for deep dives on all things Emerging Technologies. Featuring a keynote from our CTO, Chris Wright, and breakout sessions on edge computing, cloud services, and security, this conference covers all of the most...
In this post, OpenTelemetry tracing and the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) is examined. As an example, the instrumentation required to generate and export OTLP traces from CRI-O is explained. CRI-O is an implementation of the Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface, and...
Organizations face a challenging task of identifying and developing data storage, backup, recovery, and migration solutions for the enterprise. There are a wide variety of tools and solutions in the ecosystem that work well with traditional legacy-type environments,...
Object storage systems can offer simple, scalable and cost-effective means of storing heterogeneous data sets. Traditionally, these systems have been designed for media, backup, and archive. However, the usage of object storage systems is increasingly expanding to...
Crossplane is a project that strives to bring cloud infrastructure, services, and applications closer to your Kubernetes cluster in order to create a hybrid control plane. This goal is primarily achieved through the use of providers, which are standalone controllers...
This post by the Red Hat Office of the CTO seeks to expand on previous work and further explore Crossplane as a Kubernetes Operator for provisioning, managing, configuring, and consuming cloud services. These services can then, in turn, be used to create and deploy...
Communication between distributed software components in a cloud-native application is an important and challenging aspect of cloud-native development. This post introduces a solution to that problem using Virtual Application Networks (VANs). A VAN can be set up...
In this post we introduce the basics of reading and writing Apache Spark DataFrames to an SQL database, using Apache Spark's JDBC API. Apache Spark’s Structured Streaming data model is a framework for federating data from heterogeneous sources. Structured Streaming...