Engineering the World

  • March 2024 – Let the coolness begin

    Here are some incredible updates/links I ran across. How to Setup a Rust Project to Leverage MMA Optimizations on IBM Power10 Systems This post teaches you how to setup a Rust project with MMA optimizations on IBM Power10 systems using rocketce and shows a simple howto. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/daniel-schenker/2024/03/07/how-to-setup-a-rust-project-to-leverage-mma-optimi OpenShift: Add Intel Worker to Power Control Plane…

  • A couple IBM Power related updates

    A couple quick updates… opentofus – a terraform Compatible Build for ppc64le The Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL) provides Power servers to develop and test open source projects on the Power Architecture platform. OSU OSL provides ppc64le VMs and bare metal machines as well as CI. Read more about their Power services…

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

    FYI: Webinar: Getting started with Multi-Arch Compute workloads with your Red Hat OpenShift cluster Summary

 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…

  • February 2024 Updates

    Here are some updates for February 2024 Open Source Container images for Power now available in IBM Container Registry The Power team has added a new image: envoy 1.29.0 podman pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/envoy-ppc64le:1.29.0 Feb 7, 2024 https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/priya-seth/2023/04/05/open-source-containers-for-power-in-icr Kube-burner is a Kubernetes performance and scale test orchestration toolset. It provides multi-faceted functionality, the most important of which…

  • kube ns delete stuck in terminating

    Per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-private/3.2.0?topic=console-namespace-is-stuck-in-terminating-state, you can delete the Namespace stuck in the Terminating Phase. Recipe 1. Grab the namespace json 2. Edit tmp.json to remove the finalizer 3. Start the proxy 4. Delete the namespace

  • January 2023 – Lessons Learned

    For the month, I learned lots of things, and wanted to share them as part of snippets that you might find useful. Create a virtual server instance in IBM Power Virtual Server using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform The Power Developer Exchange article dives into using the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and how to…

  • Setting up an IBM PowerVS Workspace to a IBM Cloud VPC

    As part of the Red Hat OpenShift Multi-Arch Compute effort, I’ve been working on Power and Intel Compute architecture pairs: This article helps setup an IBM Cloud VPC with IBM Power Virtual Server, you can follow this recipe: You now have a VPC and a Power Workspace connected. The next step is to setup the Security Groups to…

  • cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift v1.13

    The IBM Power development team is happy to introduce cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift on Power. cert-manager is a “cluster-wide service that provides application certificate lifecycle management”. This service manages certfificates and integration with external certificate authorities using Automated Certificate Management Environment (ACME).

  • Multi-Arch Compute Node Selector

    Originally posted to Node Selector https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/paul-bastide/2024/01/09/multi-arch-compute-node-selector?CommunityKey=daf9dca2-95e4-4b2c-8722-03cd2275ab63 The OpenShift Container Platform Multi-Arch Compute feature supports the pair of processor (ISA) architectures – ppc64le and amd64 in a cluster. With these pairs, there are various permutations when scheduling Pods. Fortunately, the platform has controls on where the work is scheduled in the cluster. One of these controls is…

  • Multi Arch Compute OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) cluster on IBM Power 

    Following the release of Red Hat OpenShift 4.14, clients can run x86 and IBM Power Worker Nodes in the same OpenShift Container Platform Cluster with Multi-Architecture Compute. A study compared the performance implications of deploying applications on a Multi Arch Compute OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) cluster with a cluster exclusively built on IBM Power architecture.…