OpenShift Update Graph Visualizer, lessons learned
Since OpenShift 4, updates are rather trivial. You wait for the new update to appear, press the button (or use the CLI), wait a bit, and the update is done. True, in production you might want to complicate that process a bit, for good reason.
Running an OpenShift 4 cluster now for a while myself, and developing apps on top of Kubernetes on my day job, I am curious about the next release. Is it GA already? Can I deploy it? Is there an upgrade for my current version? Is that in “candidate”, “fast”, or “stable”? Checking that turned out to be no as easy as it should be.
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic IoT
Quarkus is advertised as a “Kubernetes Native Java stack, …”, so we took it to a test, and checked what benefits we can get, by replacing an existing service from the IoT components of EnMasse, the cloud-native, self-service messaging system.
Headless installation of Cargo and Rust
When you want to containerize your Rust application, you might be using a prepared Rust image. But maybe you are a bit more paranoid when it comes to trusting base layers and you want to create your own Rust base image. Or maybe you are just curios and want to try it yourself.
An update on Eclipse IoT Packages
A lot has happened, since I wrote last about the Eclipse IoT Packages project. We had some great discussions at EclipseCon Europe, and started to work together online, having new ideas in the progress. Right before the end of the year, I think it is a good time to give an update, and peek a bit into the future.
From building blocks to IoT solutions
The Eclipse IoT ecosystem consists of around 40 different projects, ranging from embedded devices, to IoT gateways and up to cloud scale solutions. Many of those projects stand alone as “building blocks”, rather than ready to run solutions. And there is a good reason for that: you can take these building blocks, and incorporate them into your own solution, rather than adopting a complete, pre-built solution.