Paul Bastide

Category: Application Development

  • 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

  • 🚀 Exciting News for Developers! .NET 9.0 Now Available on IBM Power with Red Hat Enterprise Linux and OpenShift 🖥️

    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.

  • 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…

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  • End of April Information 2024

    The new information for the end of April is: The IBM Linux on Power team released more images to their IBM Container Registry (ICR) here are the new ones: milvus v2.3.3 docker pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/milvus-ppc64le:v2.3.3 April 2, 2024 rust 1.66.1 docker pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/rust-ppc64le:1.66.1 April 2, 2024 opensearch 2.12.0 docker pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/opensearch-ppc64le:2.12.0 April 16, 2024 https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/priya-seth/2023/04/05/open-source-containers-for-power-in-icr

  • April 2024 Updates

    Here are some updates for April 2024. FYI: I was made aware of kubernetes-sigs/kube-scheduler-simulator and the release simulator/v0.2.0. That’s why we are developing a simulator for kube-scheduler — you can try out the behavior of the scheduler while checking which plugin made what decision for which Node. https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/kube-scheduler-simulator/tree/simulator/v0.2.0 Added a new fix for imagestream set…

  • Replay: Getting started with Multi-Arch Compute workloads with your Red Hat OpenShift cluster

    I presented on: The Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform runs on IBM Power systems, offering a secure and reliable foundation for modernizing applications and running containerized workloads. Multi-Arch Compute for OpenShift Container Platform lets you use a pair of compute architectures, such as ppc64le and amd64, within a single cluster. This exciting feature opens new…