Analysis of Competition is for Losers (Peter Thiel)

Analysis of Competition is for Losers (Peter Thiel)

I don’t always agree with Peter Thiel. In fact, I often disagree with him but I do find that his thoughts and ideas provoke me to think deeply. Disagreements force me to chip away at what I believe and forge it into something ever more crisp and clean. This blog entry is a short analysis

Open Source in Business 2020: Virtual: Live Panel: Open Source in Business: The Delicate Art of Open Source Product Management

Open Source in Business 2020: Virtual: Live Panel: Open Source in Business: The Delicate Art of Open Source Product Management

This presentation is a 16 slide introduction to what must be thought about when building a production cloud. Proper image management is critical engineering task.

Testing The Latest Container Tools on RHEL8

Testing The Latest Container Tools on RHEL8

Alternate Titles #1: Testing The Latest Container Tools (Podman, Buildah, Skopeo, CRIU, Udica) on RHEL8 #2: Testing The Latest Podman on RHEL8 #3: Testing The Latest Container Tools on CentOS Stream 8 Background If you want to test the latest version of the Container Tools module on RHEL8, you’re in the right place. I’m going

How to Install Docker-CE on RHEL 8

Background If you’ve searched google to figure out how to install Docker-CE on RHEL 8, you may have been led to this very popular article: LinuxConfig.org: How to Install Docker on RHEL 8. If you’d read closely, you might have read a false statement which says, “What version to install? Well, Red Hat seems to

A First Look at The Podman 2.0 API

A First Look at The Podman 2.0 API

Most days, I don’t have any good ideas. I only have bad ideas. But, I’ve become pretty good at stack ranking my bad ideas into good, better, and best. In this article, I’m going to run through a bunch of the best bad ideas that I had using the new Podman 2.0 REST API. I’ve

A Comparison of Linux Container Images

A Comparison of Linux Container Images

  Updated 06/02/2020 Understanding Container Images To fully understand how to compare container base images, we must understand the bits inside of them. There are two major parts of an operating system – the kernel and the user space. The kernel is a special program executed directly on the hardware or virtual machine – it

Security Symposium 2020: Virtual: Live Panel: Containers and Kubernetes Security

Security Symposium 2020: Virtual: Live Panel: Containers and Kubernetes Security

This presentation is a 16 slide introduction to what must be thought about when building a production cloud. Proper image management is critical engineering task.

Security Symposium 2020: Virtual: The Security Implications of Running Software in Containers

Security Symposium 2020: Virtual: The Security Implications of Running Software in Containers

This presentation is a 16 slide introduction to what must be thought about when building a production cloud. Proper image management is critical engineering task.

A Hacker’s Guide to Moving Linux Services into Containers

Background For years, I floundered around with moving my own blog, ticket system and wiki into containers. Literally, ticket #627: Migrate Crunchtools to Containers has been open in Request Tracker since March 11th, 2017. It’s embarrassing to admit given how deeply I have been involved with containers at Red Hat. Since the early days of

Red Hat Summit 2020: Virtual: Summit 2020 – Finding, running, building, sharing, and deploying containers

Red Hat Summit 2020: Virtual: Summit 2020 – Finding, running, building, sharing, and deploying containers

This presentation is a 16 slide introduction to what must be thought about when building a production cloud. Proper image management is critical engineering task.