The battle between userspace networking and kernel networking has been ongoing since the dawn of high performance Data Plane Frameworks in 2010. With the transition of networking applications to the cloud-native paradigm, developers have had to weigh the benefits of...
If you missed the Red Hat NEXT! event back in September, or if you just want to refresh your memory on some of the amazing content that was presented there, here's a complete listing of all of the talks. Follow the links to see the recordings on the Red Hat Community...
In a recent post we walked through using Tekton and Cosign to build, sign and verify container images within Kubernetes. Red Hat utilizes OpenShift, signing and scanning in its own build systems to deliver release artifacts. Red Hat’s secure software delivery is...
The release of Kubernetes 1.24 includes signed images, which highlights the importance of delivering secure images. Whether container images are being distributed to customers or run within your own datacenters, you must ensure that the assets within the software have...
Are you a CTO, CISO, CDO, or thought leader responsible for open source strategy for your company? If so, don’t miss out on Red Hat NEXT! This is Red Hat’s annual event for deep dives on all things Emerging Technologies, coming up on September 15th. This year’s...
GitOps is a great solution for continuous delivery of Kubernetes applications, as it’s based on Git, a tool that many if not all developers are familiar with. Developers can manage deployed applications by storing their desired state in Git and reap the benefits, such...
Universal Object Reference (UOR) is a radically different approach to serverless and decentralized systems. The term “everything is an object” may be familiar to some. It is typically used to convey a fundamental object-oriented programming concept. We can also apply...
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...