Coinciding with Red Hat® Summit Virtual Experience: Open House, an experience that provides you access to all-new sessions and live opportunities to ask Red Hat technology experts questions on key topics, our Red Hat Global Services team is releasing new sessions! Continue learning from our Services experts as they share their knowledge, customer insights, and best practices with a focus on: client success, deep expertise, and emerging technology adoption.    Our newly released Red Hat Services sessions include: Automation track: Adventures with Ansible: The automation journey (phas ..read more

With a fresh installation of Ansible, like every other software, it ships with a default configuration file. This is the brain and the heart of Ansible, the file that governs the behavior of all interactions performed by the control node. In Ansible’s case that default configuration file is (ansible.cfg) located in /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg.    Please pay close attention to the line that starts with “# nearly… “ This line details the order of precedence of Ansible, which we will talk about down below, I just wanted to point that out.   As you can see, the default Ansible config ..read more

“A [person] thinks that by mouthing hard words he or she understands hard things.” – Herman Melville    How many times have you met with a team of engineers, architects, or even clients to talk about the designs of a software feature, and a single word used caused mass confusion because everyone had a slightly different definition? (Ugh, why are words so hard?!)   I have never found a more challenging concept to talk about than Representational State Transfer (REST). What does REST and being RESTful mean? Are resources the same thing as entities? Where do representations come in ..read more

The coronavirus pandemic has created much more than a global health emergency. COVID-19 has forced important changes in the daily lives of individuals and companies worldwide.    More than two billion people in the four corners of the planet have been quarantined to curb the spread of the disease. Many industries stopped their production lines, stores have closed their doors, and companies had to adapt their ways of working. Many people needed to relearn how to organize their routines.   But, if everything has a good side, the unprecedented situation created by the pandemic gave ..read more

“I don’t have permission to do this!” That’s one of many phrases that I used to hear from a couple of developers when trying to introduce them to a Configuration Management tool. This barrier was, and still is in some cases, a major obstacle in companies that didn’t adhere to the DevOps movement and practices, a problem that I like to call as “The Wall”. If you are questioning, yes, I am a huge Pink Floyd fan!  “The Wall” is characterized when, for some reason(s), developers, and operations don’t find a middle ground and share the responsibilities. What it will probably result in is a rig ..read more

Kogito is a cloud-native business automation framework for building intelligent business applications. It is based on battle-tested runtime components (like Drools, jBPM, OptaPlanner), and it allows the development of process and business rules centric cloud-native applications for orchestrating distributed microservices and container-native applications. It takes advantage of the many benefits of the container-native platforms (like Kubernetes, OpenShift) as it was designed from the ground up for those platforms.   Some of the distinguishing characteristics of Kogito are as follows: &nbs ..read more

Container-native applications are becoming more and more complex, consisting of various services and features, each component with its own security constraints and complex network policy rules. This makes it more difficult to perform day two operations once the cloud-native applications are deployed.  While upgrades, patches, and provisioning can be done using Ansible playbooks or Helm Charts, application lifecycle, storage lifecycle, and other deeper analysis cannot be done and requires application support team intervention.  Operator Framework initiative introduced Operator-SDK fra ..read more

“ When choosing a technology stack, organisations are focused first on maintaining business continuity, efficiency and, now more than ever, the adaptability and flexibility to respond to the unexpected. “   It’s not uncommon to see statements like this from technology companies. I couldn’t disagree more.     I think all of the above is what the C-levels of any corporation already take for granted – like switching on the lights. What decision makers really care about in today’s enterprise world is innovation. It’s about how to differentiate themselves. It is about getting fi ..read more

Introduction Many projects can come with a series of challenges: interpersonal issues with clients, monetary restrictions, or time constraints, for example. These issues can lead to added stress, leaving individuals feeling as if they are facing an impossible task. This blog series will focus on using the Red Hat approach for helping individuals with challenging projects that help overcome rapid burnout and help individuals feel like a contributor. Seeing how one’s contribution to a project impacts the overall end goal is critical, and knowing at what point someone has maxed out that contribut ..read more

Red Hat Process Automation Manager is a platform for developing containerized microservices and applications that automate business decisions and processes. A critical piece of a business process system is having real-time insights into what is happening, and both monitoring KPI metrics and responding to problem trends is an integral part of operations. In this video, we will take a look at how we can enable integration with Elasticsearch on a Red Hat OpenShift environment, and how to represent the KPIs in a graphical business-friendly dashboard using Kibana.   Connect with Red Hat Servi ..read more