Paul Bastide

Engineering the World

  • Updates to the Open Source Container images for Power now available in IBM Container Registry

    The IBM Linux on Power team updated the open source container images list on their IBM Container Registry (ICR). You can find out more at https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/priya-seth/2023/04/05/open-source-containers-for-power-in-icr

  • šŸš€ Exciting News for Developers! .NET 9.0 Now Available on IBM Power with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift šŸ–„ļø

    My colleague, Paul Chapman, has a nice article on .NET 9.0 running on IBM Power. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/paul-chapman/2024/11/21/dotnet9 Best wishes.

  • Red Hat OpenShift 4.17 Now Available on IBM Power

    With the third new release this year, Red Hat OpenShift4.17 is now generally available including for IBMĀ® PowerĀ®. You can read the release notes here and find the guide for installing OpenShift 4.17 on Power here. This release builds on features included in Red Hat OpenShift 4.15 and 4.16, including an important update to multi-architecture…

  • scheduler-pluginsĀ has a new releaseĀ v0.30.6

    TheĀ scheduler-pluginsĀ has a new releaseĀ v0.30.6. This feature is used in concert with theĀ Secondary Scheduler Operator This one aligns the k8s version – v1.30.6

  • IPI PowerVS with FIPS mode

    19. When it’s complete you can login and use your fips enabled cluster

  • Recommended: How oc-mirror version 2 enables disconnected installations in OpenShift 4.16

    This is a recommended article on oc-mirror and getting started with a fundamental tool in OpenShift. https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2024/10/14/how-oc-mirror-version-2-enables-disconnected-installations-openshift-416 This guide demonstrates the use of oc-mirror v2 to assist in populating a local Red Hat Quay registry that will be used for a disconnected installation, and includes the steps used to configure openshift-marketplace to use catalog sources…

  • Coming to Grips with Linux Pressure Stall Information

    The Linux Pressure Stall Information, as part of the Control Group v2, provides an accurate accounting of a containers cpu, memory and io. The psi stats allow accurate and limited access to resources – no over-committing and no over-sizing. However, it sometimes is difficult to see if the a container is being limited and could use more resources…

  • Red Hat Article: Building multi-architecture container images on OpenShift Container Platform clusters

    Our colleague at Red Hat Dylan Orzel posted an article on Building multi-architecture container images on OpenShift Container Platform clusters In this article we’ll explore how to make use of the built-in build capabilities available in Red Hat OpenShift 4 in a multi-arch compute environment, and how to make use of nodeSelectors to schedule builds…

  • Things to Know in July 2024

    Here are some things around IBM Power Systems and Red Hat OpenShift you should know about: Newly Supported Open Source Containers on IBM Power The IBM Power team has updated the list of containers they build with support for ppc64le. The list is kept at https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/priya-seth/2023/04/05/open-source-containers-for-power-in-icr The updates are: system-logger v1.19.0 podman pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/system-logger-ppc64le:v1.14.0 July…

  • Red Hat OpenShift 4.16

    Red Hat OpenShift 4.16 is generally available for upgrades and new installations, and as of today is announced. It is based on Kubernetes 1.29 with the CRI-O 1.29 runtime, RHEL CoreOS 9.4. You can read the release notes at https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.16/release_notes/ocp-4-16-release-notes.html Some cool features you can use are: – oc adm upgrade status command, which decouples…