Paul Bastide

Engineering the World

  • 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.…

  • Awesome Notes – 11/28

    Here are some great resources for OpenShift Container Platform on Power: Explore Multi Arch Compute in OpenShift cluster with IBM Power systems In the ever-evolving landscape of computing, the quest for optimal performance and adaptability remains constant. This study delves into the performance implications of deploying applications on a Multi Arch Compute OpenShift Container Platform…

  • Quay.io now available on IBM Power Systems

    Thanks to the RH and Power Team and Yussuf in particular – IBM Power now has quay.io install-run support. Red Hat Quay is a distributed, highly available, security-focused, and scalable private image registry platform that enables you to build, organize, distribute, and deploy containers for your enterprise. It provides a single and resilient content repository for delivering…

  • Notes

    Here are my notes from the week: Announcement of OpenShift 4.14 on Power Power Developer Exchange: Red Hat OpenShift 4.14 Now Available on IBM Power IBM® is very excited to announce that Red Hat OpenShift 4.14 has been released and is available to run natively on IBM Power. Multi-Architecture Compute With Red Hat OpenShift 4.14,…

  • Notes from the Week

    A few updates this week are: Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.14.0 for Power Systems The Red Hat team released OpenShift Container Platform with new support for Power Systems. The features I worked on with my team are: The installer and client are available at link Hack to List Interfaces systemd Commands Cheat Sheet Users and…

  • Notes of the Week

    1. Updated Open Source Container images for Power now available in IBM Container Registry The IBM Linux on Power team posted an updated container list including new versions of MongoDB https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/priya-seth/2023/04/05/open-source-containers-for-power-in-icr 2. The Acme Air application that uses multiarchitecture compute is moved on quay and github. The source code is at https://github.com/ocp-power-demos/acmeair-multiarchitecture-compute The images are…

  • Useful Notes for September and October 2023

    Hi everyone, I’ve been heads down working on Multiarchitecture Compute and the Power platform for IBM. How to add /etc/hosts file entries in OpenShift containers Infrastructure Nodes in OpenShift 4 A link to Infra nodes which provide a specific role in the cluster. https://access.redhat.com/solutions/5034771 Multiarchitecture Compute Research Calling all IBM Power customers looking to impact…

  • Weekly Notes

    Here are my weekly notes: Flow Connector If you are using the VPC, you can track connections between your subnets and your VPC using Flow Connector. ❯ find . -name “*.gz” -exec gunzip {} \; ❯ grep -Rh 192.168.200.10 | jq -r ‘.flow_logs[] | select(.action == “rejected”) | “\(.initiator_ip),\(.target_ip),\(.target_port)”‘ | sort -u | grep 192.168.200.10…

  • Weekly Notes

    Here are the very cool things I learned this week: CRI-O Graduated CRI-O has graduated at the CNCF – see the announcement Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces Graduation of CRI-O. This points to the maturity of Cloud Native runtimes. Checking an Ignition on a Failed Instance I use PowerVS and had a bad ignition file, so I…

  • Two ways to grab the Ignition for RHCOS/OCP4

    There are two ways to grab the ignition files for the workers in the cluster: 2. Download the ignition file using the oc commandline I’m adding this because I use it every day, and others might find it helpful.