Month: April 2022

  • Operator Training – Part 1: Concepts and Why Use Go

    A brief Operator training I gave to my team resulted in these notes. Thanks to many others in the reference section. An Operator codifies the tasks commonly associated with administrating, operating, and supporting an application. The codified tasks are event-driven responses to changes (create-update-delete-time) in the declared state relative to the actual state of an…

  • Proof-of-Concept: OpenShift on Power: Configuring an OpenID Connect identity provider

    This document outlines the installation of the OpenShift on Power, the installation of the Red Hat Single Sign-On Operator and configuring the two to work together on OCP. Thanks to Zhimin Wen who helped in my setup of the OIDC with his great work. Steps Setup OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) 4.x on IBM® Power Systems™ Virtual Server on IBM Cloud using the…

  • OpenShift RequestHeader Identity Provider with a Test IdP: My GoLang Test

    built a demonstration using GoLang, JSON, bcrypt, http client, http server to model an actual IDP. This is a demonstration only; it really helped me setup/understand what’s happening in the RequestHeader.

  • Debugging Network Traffic

    Debugging weird traffic patterns on the mac, you can use [nettop]. It shows the actual amount of data transferred by the process. It’s very helpful.