Ales Nosek - The Software Practitioner

Helping you navigate the world of Kubernetes.

May 21, 2023 - Comments - events

Speaking at Red Hat Summit 2023

This year’s Red Hat Summit is going to be hosted in Boston on May 23-25, 2023. I will be presenting on the topic: How San Diego Gas & Electric Successfully Migrated to Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS. In this presentation, I will share how I worked with SDG&E to migrate their production workloads from on-premise to the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS. I will also cover the design and implementation of our disaster recovery strategy.

The session takes place on May 24, 11:30 a.m - 12:15 p.m in the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center in Boston. If you happen to be at the session, I would enjoy meeting you.

Update 06/06/2023: The session recording can be found on YouTube.

May 2, 2022 - Comments - events

Speaking at Red Hat Summit 2022

This year’s Red Hat Summit is going to be hosted in Boston on May 10-11, 2022. I will be co-presenting along with Gregory Brown and Joe Mann on the topic: Extending Your Application Landscape with Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS. We will discuss how we leveraged Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) to build a modern platform for applications that includes disaster recovery. The session takes place on May 11, 1:00 - 1:45 p.m at the Boston Westin, Seaport District. If you happen to be at the session, I would enjoy meeting you.

Mar 29, 2021 - Comments - events

Announcing the Software Practitioner Youtube Channel

Hey what’s up everybody? Welcome to my channel! I launched my new YouTube channel just a week ago. In addition to my blog, YouTube is another media that I am leveraging to discuss technical topics, ideas, and projects that I am working on. Both my blog and the YouTube channel will continue to focus on software that runs on Kubernetes.

Sounds interesting? Head over to The Software Practitioner YouTube channel.

The first videos are already waiting there for you to watch!

Please, add a comment to let me know what topics you would like to see covered.

Nov 24, 2020 - Comments - development

14 Best Practices for Developing Applications on Openshift

Over the course of this year, I have been working with several development teams that started building applications on OpenShift. My goal was to provide the developers with guidance and best practices that would help them to successfully deploy their applications to production. If you are a developer that builds applications on top of OpenShift, this blog might be of interest to you.

The blog is published at openshift.com/blog.

Sep 13, 2020 - Comments - devops

Apache Airflow Architecture on Openshift

This blog will walk you through the Apache Airflow architecture on OpenShift. We are going to discuss the function of the individual Airflow components and how they can be deployed to OpenShift. This article focuses on the latest Apache Airflow version 1.10.12.

Jul 13, 2020 - Comments - events

Speaking at Red Hat Summit 2020

This year’s Red Hat Summit is not over yet! There is a second batch of sessions that will be released on Wednesday, July 15. I will have a joint presentation with Andrew Baumann, titled: Security and access control for microservices. We will be discussing OAuth 2.0, the Keycloak project, and Open Policy Agent.

More information about the session can be found in the session catalog.

Jun 8, 2020 - Comments - development

Local Development with OpenShift and Tilt

In this blog post, I am going to show you how to use Tilt to facilitate local OpenShift development. Tilt’s capabilities will be demonstrated in a practical example that uses buildah and CodeReady Containers. If you develop containerized applications on OpenShift, this blog post is for you.