Paul Bastide

Engineering the World

  • End of April Information 2024

    The new information for the end of April is: The IBM Linux on Power team released more images to their IBM Container Registry (ICR) here are the new ones: milvus v2.3.3 docker pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/milvus-ppc64le:v2.3.3 April 2, 2024 rust 1.66.1 docker pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/rust-ppc64le:1.66.1 April 2, 2024 opensearch 2.12.0 docker pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/opensearch-ppc64le:2.12.0 April 16, 2024 https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/priya-seth/2023/04/05/open-source-containers-for-power-in-icr

  • Getting Started with a Sock-Shop – a sample multi-arch compute application

    Original post was at https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/paul-bastide/2024/04/26/getting-started-with-a-sock-shop-a-sample-multi-ar?CommunityKey=daf9dca2-95e4-4b2c-8722-03cd2275ab63 I’ve developed the following script to help you get started deploying multiarchitecture applications and show elaborate on the techniques for controllin multiarch compute. This script uses the sock-shop application which is available at https://github.com/ocp-power-demos/sock-shop-demo . This series of instructions for sock-shop-demo requires kustomize and following the readme.md in the repository to setup the username…

  • Setting up nfs-provisioner on OpenShift on Power Systems with a template

    Here are my notes for setting up the SIG’s nfs-provisioner. You should follow these directions to setup the nfs-provisioner kubernetes-sigs/nfs-subdir-external-provisioner. a. Create the namespace b. Annotate the namespace with elevated privileges so we can create NFS mounts ❯ oc get sc NAME         PROVISIONER                                   RECLAIMPOLICY   VOLUMEBINDINGMODE   ALLOWVOLUMEEXPANSION   AGE nfs-client   k8s-sigs.io/nfs-subdir-external-provisioner   Delete          Immediate           false                  3m27s If you…

  • April 2024 Updates

    Here are some updates for April 2024. FYI: I was made aware of kubernetes-sigs/kube-scheduler-simulator and the release simulator/v0.2.0. That’s why we are developing a simulator for kube-scheduler — you can try out the behavior of the scheduler while checking which plugin made what decision for which Node. https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kube-scheduler-simulator/tree/simulator/v0.2.0 Added a new fix for imagestream set…

  • Replay: Getting started with Multi-Arch Compute workloads with your Red Hat OpenShift cluster

    I presented on: The Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform runs on IBM Power systems, offering a secure and reliable foundation for modernizing applications and running containerized workloads. Multi-Arch Compute for OpenShift Container Platform lets you use a pair of compute architectures, such as ppc64le and amd64, within a single cluster. This exciting feature opens new…

  • Red Hat OpenShift Multi-Architecture Compute – Demo MicroServices on IBM Power Systems

    Shows a Microservices Application running on Red Hat OpenShift Control Plane on IBM Power Systems with an Intel Worke

  • Updates for End of March 2024

    Here are some great updates for the first half of April 2024. Sizing and configuring an LPAR for AI workloads Sebastian Lehrig has a great introduction into CPU/AI/NUMA on Power10. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/sebastian-lehrig/2024/03/26/sizing-for-ai Some tips for setting up a Multi-Arch Compute Cluster Setting up a multi-arch compute cluster manually, not using automation, you’ll want to follow this…

  • Bringing OpenShift Container Platform Multiple-Architecture Compute to IBM Power with sme.up

    The IBM team Bringing OpenShift Container Platform Multiple-Architecture Compute to IBM Power with sme.up posted an update on one of our OpenShift on Power customers who used Multi-Architecture Compute.

  • Multi-Architecture Compute: Managing User Provisioned Infrastructure Load Balancers with Post-Installation workers

    From https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/paul-bastide/2024/03/21/multi-architecture-compute-managing-user-provision?CommunityKey=daf9dca2-95e4-4b2c-8722-03cd2275ab63 Multi-Arch Compute for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Power systems lets one use a pair of compute architectures, such as, ppc64le and amd64, within a single cluster. This feature opens new possibilities for versatility and optimization for composite solutions that span multiple architectures. The cluster owner is able to add an…

  • OpenShift 4.15

    IBM announced the availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.15 available on IBM Power. Read more about it inhttps://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/brandon-pederson1/2024/03/15/red-hat-openshift-415-now-available-on-ibm-power I worked on the following: Red Hat OpenShift 4.14, Multi-Architecture Compute was introduced for the IBM Power and IBM Z platforms, enabling a single heterogeneous cluster across different compute architectures. With the release of Red Hat OpenShift…