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 18, 2024
postgres-operator	v15.7	podman pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/postgres-operator-ppc64le:v15.7	July 18, 2024
postgresql	v14.12.0-bv	podman pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/postgresql:v14.12.0-bv	July 9, 2024
mongodb	5.0.26	podman pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/mongodb-ppc64le:5.0.26	April 9, 2024
	6.0.13	podman pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/mongodb-ppc64le:6.0.13	April 9, 2024

Aqua Trivy and Starboard for scanning GitLab on IBM Power

Trivy and Starboard are now available per https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/gerrit-huizenga/2024/07/17/aqua-trivy-and-starboard-for-scanning-gitlab-on-ib

You can download the Trivy RPM using:

rpm -ivh https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy/releases/download/v0.19.2/trivy_0.19.2_Linux-PPC64LE.rpm

Or you could use Starboard directly from https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy-operator/releases/tag/v0.22.0

These provide some nice security features and tools for IBM Power containers.

OpenShift Routes for cert-manager

The OpenShift Routes project supports automatically getting a certificate for OpenShift routes from any cert-manager Issuer, similar to annotating an Ingress or Gateway resource in vanilla Kubernetes.

You can download the helm chart from https://github.com/cert-manager/openshift-routes/releases

Or you can use:

helm install openshift-routes -n cert-manager oci://ghcr.io/cert-manager/charts/openshift-routes

OpenBAO

OpenBao exists to provide a software solution to manage, store, and distribute sensitive data including secrets, certificates, and keys.

OpenBAO has released v2.0.0

You can use helm to install on IBM Power use the values.openshift.yaml link

helm repo add openbao https://openbao.github.io/openbao-helm
helm install openbao openbao/openbao

The Containers are at https://quay.io/repository/openbao/openbao?tab=tags&tag=latest