Paul Bastide

Engineering the World

  • Updates for End of March 2024

    Here are some great updates for the first half of April 2024. Sizing and configuring an LPAR for AI workloads Sebastian Lehrig has a great introduction into CPU/AI/NUMA on Power10. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/sebastian-lehrig/2024/03/26/sizing-for-ai Some tips for setting up a Multi-Arch Compute Cluster Setting up a multi-arch compute cluster manually, not using automation, you’ll want to follow this…

  • Bringing OpenShift Container Platform Multiple-Architecture Compute to IBM Power with sme.up

    The IBM team Bringing OpenShift Container Platform Multiple-Architecture Compute to IBM Power with sme.up posted an update on one of our OpenShift on Power customers who used Multi-Architecture Compute.

  • Multi-Architecture Compute: Managing User Provisioned Infrastructure Load Balancers with Post-Installation workers

    From https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/paul-bastide/2024/03/21/multi-architecture-compute-managing-user-provision?CommunityKey=daf9dca2-95e4-4b2c-8722-03cd2275ab63 Multi-Arch Compute for Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform on IBM Power systems lets one use a pair of compute architectures, such as, ppc64le and amd64, within a single cluster. This feature opens new possibilities for versatility and optimization for composite solutions that span multiple architectures. The cluster owner is able to add an…

  • OpenShift 4.15

    IBM announced the availability of Red Hat OpenShift 4.15 available on IBM Power. Read more about it inhttps://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/brandon-pederson1/2024/03/15/red-hat-openshift-415-now-available-on-ibm-power I worked on the following: Red Hat OpenShift 4.14, Multi-Architecture Compute was introduced for the IBM Power and IBM Z platforms, enabling a single heterogeneous cluster across different compute architectures. With the release of Red Hat OpenShift…

  • March 2024 – Let the coolness begin

    Here are some incredible updates/links I ran across. How to Setup a Rust Project to Leverage MMA Optimizations on IBM Power10 Systems This post teaches you how to setup a Rust project with MMA optimizations on IBM Power10 systems using rocketce and shows a simple howto. https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/daniel-schenker/2024/03/07/how-to-setup-a-rust-project-to-leverage-mma-optimi OpenShift: Add Intel Worker to Power Control Plane…

  • A couple IBM Power related updates

    A couple quick updates… opentofus – a terraform Compatible Build for ppc64le The Oregon State University Open Source Lab (OSU OSL) provides Power servers to develop and test open source projects on the Power Architecture platform. OSU OSL provides ppc64le VMs and bare metal machines as well as CI. Read more about their Power services…

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

    FYI: Webinar: Getting started with Multi-Arch Compute workloads with your Red Hat OpenShift cluster Summary

 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…

  • February 2024 Updates

    Here are some updates for February 2024 Open Source Container images for Power now available in IBM Container Registry The Power team has added a new image: envoy 1.29.0 podman pull icr.io/ppc64le-oss/envoy-ppc64le:1.29.0 Feb 7, 2024 https://community.ibm.com/community/user/powerdeveloper/blogs/priya-seth/2023/04/05/open-source-containers-for-power-in-icr Kube-burner is a Kubernetes performance and scale test orchestration toolset. It provides multi-faceted functionality, the most important of which…

  • kube ns delete stuck in terminating

    Per https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cloud-private/3.2.0?topic=console-namespace-is-stuck-in-terminating-state, you can delete the Namespace stuck in the Terminating Phase. Recipe 1. Grab the namespace json 2. Edit tmp.json to remove the finalizer 3. Start the proxy 4. Delete the namespace

  • January 2023 – Lessons Learned

    For the month, I learned lots of things, and wanted to share them as part of snippets that you might find useful. Create a virtual server instance in IBM Power Virtual Server using Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform The Power Developer Exchange article dives into using the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and how to…