VSHN.timer #129: Latest OpenShift News

Welcome to another VSHN.timer! Every Monday, 5 links related to Kubernetes, OpenShift, CI / CD, and DevOps; all stuff coming out of our own chat system, making us think, laugh, or simply work better.

This week we’re going to talk about what’s going on in the world of Red Hat OpenShift.

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1. Red Hat OpenShift celebrated last September its 10th anniversary! This was shortly before the release of version 4.9 and the change to a timeline-based lifecycle of 18 months for all minor releases of OpenShift 4.

https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/10-years-of-openshift-and-10-years-of-business-innovation

2. The German OpenShift User Meeting is a platform for everyone to share knowledge and best practices around Red Hat OpenShift, and it’s happening on March 9th, 2022 on Gather. Don’t miss the date!

https://events.redhat.com/profile/form/index.cfm?PKformID=0x510075abcd&sc_cid=7013a000002qA4lAAE

3. Azure Red Hat OpenShift is a fully managed, HIPAA compliant Red Hat OpenShift service in Azure jointly engineered and supported by Microsoft and Red Hat. We recently found this free lab to learn and understand some of the concepts of deploying and securing container based applications with it.

https://aroworkshop.io/

4. OpenShift is a complete platform providing tools and support for all aspects of DevOps, from development, security, operations, and crucially, also for incident management. Check these field notes from a private bank in Italy planning for reliability using OpenShift, Ansible, Argo CD, and more.

https://cloud.redhat.com/blog/openshift-disaster-recovery-a-cold-start-story

5. Gitea is a self-hosting lightweight & open source alternative to host your Git repositories securely and efficiently. And of course, you can also run Gitea in your OpenShift cluster.

https://github.com/wkulhanek/docker-openshift-gitea

Bonus Item 6! Do you want some free Red Hat stickers for your laptop? The question is… who doesn’t?! Then get them here!

https://red.ht/anwender-sticker

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PS³: check out our previous VSHN.timer editions about Red Hat OpenShift: #9, #28, #53, and #95.