Month: March 2017

Building an OpenShift Lab: Why I Used Atomic Host

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Building an OpenShift Lab: Why I Used Atomic Host

RHEL Atomic Host requires a lot less configuration than a full RHEL Server installation. The docker daemon is installed and configured, storage is already setup to use device mapper on a dedicated LV, and the default tools necessary to install OpenShift are already installed. And as a bonus, the installation on my laptop in KVM virtual machines is about 10X as fast as installing a full RHEL installation.

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Documenting the Experience: Moving Crunchtools to Containers/OpenShift: Part 1

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Documenting the Experience: Moving Crunchtools to Containers/OpenShift: Part 1

Background Last week, I was in Westford, MA for an engineering meeting. I was chatting with one of our Base Runtime engineers Petr Sabata, and an interesting subject came up. He joked, “I understand containers, I know how to use them, but I still haven’t converted any of *my* services to containers.” This got me

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