Kicking into Fifth Gear pt1
| 18 Sep 2017 | ~4 minutes | Comments |
Aaren DeJong
Having finished education in a completely different field of work and feeling confident of that career path, I did notice a slight twitch in my hands. I was watching as my backup plan to work in I.T. was moving out of reach if I didn't do something soon.
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KDCproxy - SELinux Tip
| 14 Sep 2017 | ~3 minutes | Comments |
Aly Khimji
A quick tip for anyone who might be experiencing a strange issue when attempting to leverage Red Hat's IdM KDCproxy functionality. In a recently deployment which required segmentation of RHEL7.2 nodes in a DMZ, there was a requirement for allowing authentication access via an internal KDC. This was a perfect use case for leveraging the KDCproxy functionality. Since SSSD was calling the kdc_child process, which attempts to access the KDC over HTTPS, I was finding some strange behavior in which access was being denied by SSSD when testing authentication to the internal KDC.
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Troubleshooting OpenShift LDAP Authentication
| 16 Aug 2017 | ~2 minutes | Comments |
Shea Stewart
This post covers a few quick steps for troubleshooting OpenShift master configuration issues. Prompted while attempting to troubleshoot some LDAP issues, these steps may help in other master configuration issues as well.
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Configuring Ansible Playbooks in a Private GitHub Repo with CloudForms 4.5
| 17 Jun 2017 | ~3 minutes | Comments |
Shea Stewart
On May 31 2017 CloudForms 4.5 was released and brought with it greater Ansible functionality, specifically with the new embedded Ansible server role (not to be confused with Ansible roles).
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A New Adventure and New Opportunities
| 17 Jun 2017 | ~5 minutes | Comments |
Jacob Mammoliti
Looking back at the past few months, it’s truly amazing how much my life changed in a week. A unique first day… my official first day with the Arctiq team was at the Annual Red Hat Summit and what a ride that was!
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Collaborative DevOps at CBC
| 20 Apr 2017 | ~1 minute | Comments |
Mike Morrison
Growing up in Canada, there aren’t many people who aren't exposed to the CBC as part of their daily lives. From Hockey Night in Canada, to The National, to CBC Radio...there likely isn’t a Canadian who hasn’t been exposed to the CBC. Watch Arcitq, Red Hat, and CBC's success story on containerization of CBC's website using OpenShift.
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Toronto Azure Meetup Recap - From Code to Containers and Automated Pipelines on Azure
| 18 Apr 2017 | ~2 minutes | Comments |
Kyle Bassett
Arctiq recently presented to the the Toronto Azure Meetup Group. The topic was Linux Container Platform (Kubernetes, OpenShift and Ansible Automation) including Pipeline Automation - From Code to Containers and Continuous Delivery on Azure. You can read the presentation description here on our events page. Yes, It was a lot of content to present in an hour but the demo God's were nice and everything worked as designed.
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Are your Containers having an "Identity" Crisis? Access Management Considerations
| 29 Mar 2017 | ~8 minutes | Comments |
Aly Khimji
With the rapid adoption of containers throughout the industry, the landscape of technology and tools in the enterprise is forever changing. Once the excitement of getting the technology up and running wears off, we are often left with the same questions we find enterprises regularly asking.
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Arctiq Wins Red Hat Canada Partner of the Year Award
| 29 Mar 2017 | ~3 minutes | Comments |
Mike Morrison
Arctiq, Inc. is proud to announce they have been named Canadian Partner of the Year by Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions. This award is part of the annual Red Hat North American Partner Awards, which were announced on March 28 at the 2017 Red Hat North American Partner Conference in Las Vegas.
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YES! Ansible can automate all, including Microsoft Windows Server
| 16 Mar 2017 | ~3 minutes | Comments |
Daniyal Javed
One of the things that we’ve seen gain a lot of traction is native support for Windows inside the Ansible platform. It is hard to find a homogenous IT stack nowadays. For example, you may have a Linux server farm but with Active Directory proving its identity. Your management tools needs to be able to handle Linux, Unix, cloud services and.. Windows
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OpenShift Multi-Master Install - Not able to choose etcd IP/Interface during installation - work around
| 06 Mar 2017 | ~17 minutes | Comments |
Kyle Bassett
Recently I was building a multi-node OpenShift 3.4 environment in Softlayer - AKA - Bluemix Infrastructure. I ran into an issue with the installer (running via Ansible) that was not very easy to troubleshoot and get to the the root cause.
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Arctiq Announces Red Hat Premier Status
| 01 Mar 2017 | ~3 minutes | Comments |
Mike Morrison
Arctiq, Inc. is pleased to announce the achievement of Red Hat Premier partnership status, joining only a handful of Premier partners across Canada. Arctiq has achieved the top status of Red Hat partnership in less than one year of operation. In addition, Arctiq holds Advanced accreditations in Ansible, OpenShift, CloudForms, Satellite, and other key foundational Red Hat open source software.
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Arctiq's - Red Hat on Microsoft Azure Webinar - Recording
| 26 Feb 2017 | ~2 minutes | Comments |
Kyle Bassett
When the world's two foremost data centre operating system companies start collaborating, we should all sit up and pay attention! Arctiq specializes in the integration of open source solutions to support modern IT transformation, and both Red Hat and Microsoft play a big role in our engagements. From virtualization to containers, across public, private, and hybrid cloud platforms, and the glue that is automation and orchestration, the Arctiq team helps our clients navigate the murky waters. To this end, the marriage between Microsoft and Red Hat is beginning to drive some real world solutions - such as the OpenShift Container Platform running in Azure, or the ability to easily port your RHEL subscriptions into Azure with Red Hat Cloud Access.
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Ansible Jinja Warrior - Mastering "Loop Variable Scope"
| 16 Feb 2017 | ~9 minutes | Comments |
Tim Fairweather
Jinja templates in Ansible can be very powerful. They can also be a leading contributor to hair loss. Why? In some ways it comes down to documentation, a mixing of languages (YAML, Python, Jinja2), and variables.
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Delivering "Push Button" Automation Integrating CloudForms and Ansible Tower
| 15 Feb 2017 | ~6 minutes | Comments |
Daniyal Javed
Today I will be taking you on a quick expedition on how you can integrate two modern Red Hat products to help automate your business. In this example, the button writes to the /etc/motd file of a specific VM using a very simple role from Ansible Galaxy.
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Arctiq's Top-List for 2016
| 31 Dec 2016 | ~1 minute | Comments |
Mike Morrison
Drumroll please.... Welcome to the Arctiq Top-List for 2016!
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Microsoft Really Does (Heart) Linux!
| 29 Dec 2016 | ~5 minutes | Comments |
Mike Morrison
When the world's two foremost data centre operating system companies start collaborating, we should all sit up and pay attention! The marriage between Microsoft and Red Hat is more than simply intriguing. Approximately one year into their “partnership” we are starting to see some real collaborative outcomes.
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OpenShift on Azure... Eh ?
| 05 Dec 2016 | ~9 minutes | Comments |
Kyle Bassett
There have been a few options over the past year or so but those offerings looked much more like a traditional managed service offering than a real 'Cloud' IMHO. Personally I always felt that Amazon EC2 would be the first to open their doors to Canadians but Microsoft beat them across the boarder.
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Integrated Security with Black Duck Hub and Jenkins
| 24 Nov 2016 | ~10 minutes | Comments |
Shea Stewart
This article is a follow-on from our recent Practice Safe DevOps event, where we demonstrated development tooling capabilities focused on the Enterprise, with enough extensibility to bring the corporate security requirements INTO the development process rather than AFTER the deployment process.
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Firewalls aren't enough, Avoid Exploits with automated Patch Management
| 09 Nov 2016 | ~3 minutes | Comments |
Aly Khimji
So let’s jump right in… what can happen when you’re environment is not security compliant and your organization is not patching your systems on a regular basis? The importance of patching regularly is a challenge many organizations face. There are times when development cycles, unportable code, lack of time and lack of discipline can prevent systems from being patched. Let’s also not forget about the whole change management challenge and testing requirements.
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It's time to build an application pipeline... OpenShift 3.3 integrated Jenkins pipeline demo"
| 07 Nov 2016 | ~3 minutes | Comments |
Kyle Bassett
Everyone wants to achieve better code promotion automation, which is generally referred to as 'being agile' and moving to 'Continuous Deployment, Delivery, and Integration'. I know from experience this was very difficult in the world of virtual machines and bare metal servers, but thanks to container orchestration technologies you will see (in the video below) that times have changed and it’s not so hard anymore.
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Changing the default SSL certificate on your OpenShift routers
| 05 Nov 2016 | ~5 minutes | Comments |
Shea Stewart
While it may not be a frequent task, updating SSL certificates is necessary from time to time. In this post, we will illustrate one method of changing these certificates with minimal impact to the production cluster.
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Cleaning the Dirty COW - Emergency Patching in Satellite 6
| 02 Nov 2016 | ~1 minute | Comments |
Tim Fairweather
In today's short video, I'm going to demonstrate how to perform emergency patch management in Satellite 6. In specific, I will walk through patching an errata that was released by Red Hat to address a kernel vulnerability recently found called 'Dirty Cow'
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Marrying VM's & Containers to AutoScale RethinkDB with Kubernetes
| 03 Oct 2016 | ~3 minutes | Comments |
Aly Khimji
In this Blog I am going to show you how to take advantage of traditional virtualization but also utilize containers and kubernetes to manage real-time scale requirements in an unpredictable application environment.
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Using your Openshift CDK to Build & Deploy ASP.NET Containerized Applications
| 03 Oct 2016 | ~9 minutes | Comments |
Kyle Bassett
Since we can now deploy our ASP.NET applications inside OpenShift the game has changed. We can benefits for all the platform automation and integration that OpenShift provides.
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