CI/CD for Your RHEL 10 Bootc Workstation: A Practical Guide to GitHub Actions, Podman, and Quay.io

CI/CD for Your RHEL 10 Bootc Workstation: A Practical Guide to GitHub Actions, Podman, and Quay.io
CI/CD for Image Mode RHEL - Lock and Ship concept with padlocked container crate

A practical walkthrough of setting up CI/CD for a RHEL 10 bootc workstation image using GitHub Actions, Podman, and Quay.io — including the workarounds you’ll actually need.

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

Why I Believe in Tools Like Kubernetes and Podman So Strongly

Why I Believe in Tools Like Kubernetes and Podman So Strongly

History Lesson on PaaS People often rewrite history in their minds. They see the way the landscape looks today, forget the chronological order of events, and reconstruct a false model of cause and effect. I am guilty of doing this from time to time. One such history is that of PaaS. The year was 2012,

Hardware 1.0 vs. Hardware 2.0

Hardware 1.0 vs. Hardware 2.0

I’ve seen a lot negative reactions to the terms multi cloud and hybrid cloud. I would argue, that’s because we are framing it wrong. It’s really Hardware 1.0 and Hardware 2.0. In Hardware 1.0 Dell, IBM and HP all tried to sell us fairly similar servers. We typically bought these servers, but we could finance

How to Buy a Used Linux Container

How to Buy a Used Linux Container

How do you buy a used Linux container? A quick search of “how to buy a shipping container” will turn up a wealth of information, especially how to evaluate used ones. While all analogies are imperfect, this one is pretty good and it does highlight an interesting problem – basically, any Linux container image over

Container Myths Debunked (Redux)

Container Myths Debunked (Redux)

Background So lately, I have been hearing a lot about containers vs. virtual machines and I wanted to get in on the action. I saw the a recap of Alex Polvi’s session at OpenStack Silicon Valley and I was inspired. I agree with Alex, and for fun, I wanted to state all of his points