Paul Bastide

Engineering the World

  • Krew plugin on ppc64le

    Posted to https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/paul-bastide/2023/07/19/kubernetes-krew-plugin-support-for-power?CommunityKey=daf9dca2-95e4-4b2c-8722-03cd2275ab63 Hey everyone, Krew, the kubectl plugin package manager, is now available on Power. The release v0.4.4 has a ppc64le download. You can download and start taking advantage of the krew plugin list. ppc64le download It also works with OpenShift. The Krew website has a list of plugins](https://krew.sigs.k8s.io/plugins/). Not all of the plugins support ppc64le, however may…

  • Lessons and Notes for the Week

    Here are some lessons learned from the week (and shared with other): TIP: How to create a Power Workspace from the CLI This document outlines the steps necessary to create a PowerVS workspace. 1. Login to IBM Cloud 2. Install the Plugins for PowerVS and VPC. As a good practice install, the powervs and vpc…

  • Notes for the Week

    Here are some notes from the week: The Network Observability Operator is now released on IBM Power Systems. Network observability operator now available on Power. Network Observability (NETOBSERV) for IBM Power, little endian 1 for RHEL 9 ppc64le https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:3905?sc_cid=701600000006NHXAA2 https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/discussion/network-observability-operator-now-available-on-power

  • Notes from the Week

    A few things I learned this week are: There is a cool session on IPI PowerVS for OpenShift called Introducing Red Hat OpenShift Installer-Provisioned Installation (IPI) for IBM Power Virtual Servers Webinar. Did you know that you can run Red Hat OpenShift clusters on IBM Power servers? Maybe you do, but you don’t have Power…

  • Tidbits – Terraform and Multiarch

    Here is a compendium of tidbits from the week: FYI: Terraform v1.5.0 is released. It’s probably worth updating. link to ppc64le build There are new features: check blocks for validating infrastructure: Module and configuration authors can now write independent check blocks within their configuration to validate assertions about their infrastructure. Adds a new strcontains function that checks whether a given string…

  • A few more notes from the week

    A few things I learned about this week are: IBM Redbooks: Implementing, Tuning, and Optimizing Workloads with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power A new document provides hints and tips about how to install your Red Hat OpenShift cluster, and also provide guidance about how to size and tune your environment. I’m reading through it…

  • A few weeks of notes

    I’ve been working hard on multiarch enablement for various OpenShift features. Here are a few notes from the last few weeks: It’s a really helpful and interesting solution to deploying your cluster. This issue was tough to debug, and I hope it helps you. The above will help when scp hangs. Blog: Using the oc-compliance…

  • Weekly Notes

    Here are my weekly learnings and notes: Podman Desktop updates v1.0.1 Podman Desktop is an open source graphical tool enabling you to seamlessly work with containers and Kubernetes from your local environment. In a cool update, the Podman Desktop team added support for OpenShift Local in v1.0.1 and Kind clusters are already there. We can do…

  • Weekly Notes

    In this update, I found a subnet cidr cheat sheet that helps greatly.

  • Weekly Notes

    I found these things very helpful this week Tip: Creating a Manifest List Image for Acme Airlines Tip: Sock Shop Demo Provides a solid microservices demo. GitHub https://microservices-demo.github.io/ Tip: NUMA Background There are some issues with NUMA control that make it so much harder to manage. There are some issues with NUMA nodes and container…