Paul Bastide

Category: OpenShift

  • Krew plugin on ppc64le

    Posted to https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/paul-bastide/2023/07/19/kubernetes-krew-plugin-support-for-power?CommunityKey=daf9dca2-95e4-4b2c-8722-03cd2275ab63 Hey everyone, Krew, the kubectl plugin package manager, is now available on Power. The release v0.4.4 has a ppc64le download. You can download and start taking advantage of the krew plugin list. ppc64le download It also works with OpenShift. The Krew website has a list of plugins](https://krew.sigs.k8s.io/plugins/). Not all of the plugins support ppc64le, however may…

  • Notes from the Week

    A few things I learned this week are: There is a cool session on IPI PowerVS for OpenShift called Introducing Red Hat OpenShift Installer-Provisioned Installation (IPI) for IBM Power Virtual Servers Webinar. Did you know that you can run Red Hat OpenShift clusters on IBM Power servers? Maybe you do, but you don’t have Power…

  • A few more notes from the week

    A few things I learned about this week are: IBM Redbooks: Implementing, Tuning, and Optimizing Workloads with Red Hat OpenShift on IBM Power A new document provides hints and tips about how to install your Red Hat OpenShift cluster, and also provide guidance about how to size and tune your environment. I’m reading through it…

  • Weekly Notes

    Here are my weekly learnings and notes: Podman Desktop updates v1.0.1 Podman Desktop is an open source graphical tool enabling you to seamlessly work with containers and Kubernetes from your local environment. In a cool update, the Podman Desktop team added support for OpenShift Local in v1.0.1 and Kind clusters are already there. We can do…

  • Weekly Notes

    In this update, I found a subnet cidr cheat sheet that helps greatly.

  • Weekly Notes

    There are so many interesting things to share: crane is a tool for interacting with remote images and registries. You can extract a binary my-util for a given architecture using: You can extract a binary from a manifest-listed image using: a. IBM/powervs-tang-server-automation: v1.0.4 b. IBM/powervm-tang-server-automation: v1.0.0

  • Development Notes

    Here are some things I found interesting this week: Day-0 Day-1 Day-2 Definitions day-0: customized installationday-1: customization performed only once after installing a cluster, day-2: tasks performed multiple times during the life of a cluster Thanks to a Red Hat colleague for this wonderful definition. sfdisk tips I used sfdisk in a PowerVM project. I…

  • Weekly Tips and Notes

    The tips and notes for the week are included, I hope they help you. TIP: Check the System Admins on OpenShift A quick one to find the cluster-admins… Ref: https://serverfault.com/questions/862728/how-to-list-users-with-role-cluster-admin-in-openshift Tip: Can I act as kube-admin? I needed to double check if I could act as kube:admin. Ref: https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.12/cli_reference/openshift_cli/developer-cli-commands.html#oc-auth-can-i Blog Post: Advanced debugging techniques for OpenShift Container…

  • Weekly Notes

    For the week, I ran across a few things and wrote one blog for the IBM Power Developer Exchange. a. get the coreos container b. create the qemu vm As you define, build, and run your OpenShift Container Platform cluster, you should be aware of the rich security features available. Here is a curated list…

  • Handy Dandy Tricks for the Week

    As I work with Linux and the OpenShift Container Platform, I run into some handy tips, tricks and patterns that make my job easier, and I wanted to share with you all (and so I can find these details in the future): 1. Verifying etcd data is encrypted The etcd depends on the Kube-APIServer and…