Red Hat Releases OpenShift Enterprise 2.0

Red Hat announced recently the release of OpenShift Enterprise 2.0.  This is a great PaaS product and can be implemented quickly privately or public.

To watch a good webinar go to Putting the Enterprise into PaaS and register to watch it on demand.

Red Hat release the following announcement as well.

What’s OpenShift Enterprise 2, you ask? It’s the latest and greatest version of OpenShift Enterprise, Red Hat’s private Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

Private PaaS is a cloud computing solution that lets enterprises, government agencies, and almost any IT department build and deliver apps faster. The result: improved time to revenue and innovation.

New OpenShift Enterprise features
OpenShift Enterprise 2 builds on the robust, open source OpenShift platform originally launched in 2011. This latest release gives your IT operations and IT development teams:

• High-performance and highly available web traffic routing.
• New and updated programming languages.
• Easy installation and deployment.
• An advanced administration console.
• Powerful developer collaboration.

Try OpenShift on Your Laptop

If you are new too or are wondering about OpenShift, Red Hat offers open source project called OpenShift Origin. They have made available vmdk and other VM images so you can run it in VirtualBox or VMware workstation on your laptop. Or any other virtual environment.

I downloaded the virtual disk and had OpenShift up and running. It's a good way to get a quick overview of OpenShift. However, I'd also highly suggest following the guide to perform manual installation. 

For more information, please see the following:

• OpenShift Origin
• Download Image
• Comprehensive Guide

Red Hat Open Cloud Architecture Webinar

Red Hat continues to bring great free webinar content with one of their latest offerings. IT Architects: Implement an Open cloud architecture and deliver fast results.

In my experience these webinars provide very valuable information and help to keep up with what is going on at Red Hat

          

IT architects: Implement an open cloud architecture and deliver fast results

Shifting to a next-generation IT architecture is an opportunity to both simplify your architecture and address concerns that have plagued IT in the past. One way to do this is by deciding to embrace an architecture that provides choice, agility, and openness, and that uses existing investments.

Simplify architectures. Overcome past architecture limitations. Meet business demands.

In this webinar, we'll discuss strategic considerations for moving to a cloud architecture that lets IT quickly deliver against business requirements for:

• Self-service.
• Elastic infrastructure and applications.
• Fast environment delivery.
• Accelerated application development.
• Maintenance of your existing IT resource investments.

Join Red Hatter James Labocki as he provides considerations for holistic cloud architectures and methods to increase your cloud benefits with an open hybrid approach.Less

Date: October 2, 2013

Time:

• 13:00 UTC | 9 a.m. (New York) / 3 p.m. (Paris) / 6:30 p.m. (Mumbai)
• 18:00 UTC | 2 p.m. (New York) / 8 p.m. (Paris) / 11:30 p.m (Mumbai)
• 01:00 UTC | 6:30 a.m. (Mumbai) / 9 a.m. (Singapore) / 11 a.m. (Sydney)

Length: 01:00

Language: English

Audience: Business

Register https://engage.redhat.com/forms/5299925_ohc_webinar_series_august2013

OpenShift and Java EE in the Cloud

Java EE in the Cloud: OpenShift Architecture

http://flip.it/VRAqY
This is a pretty good article to help under OpenShift and java.  

How to Create a Custom Channel

Create a Custom Channel (example PostgreSQL )   

1. Go to Channels                 > Manage Software Channels > Create New Channel 
2. Enter the following information  
   1. Basic Channel Details 
      1. Channel Name 
      2. Channel Label 
      3. Select Parent Channel 
      4. Select Parent Channel Arch [x86_64] 
      5. Channel Summary            
   2. Channel Maintainer / Contact 
      1. Maintainer Name 
      2. Maintainer Contact info 
      3. Support Policy (if any) 
   3. Channel Access Control 
      1. Per-User Subs  
      2. Organization Sharing 
   4. Security GPG Key 
      1. If you have GPG enter it here 
3. Then click Create Channel 
4. Create Custom Repository (if available, otherwise push packages in via rhnpush) 
   1. Locate the YUM Repo URL  
   2. Click on Manage Repositories > Create New Repository 
   3. Enter the Repo – label and URL and then click  Create Repository    
5. Go to Software Channels  > Select your Channel >  Repositories 
6. Select the new Repo then click on Update List > Update Repositories 
7. There are 3 methods to Sync 
   1. Method 1: Go to Repos > Sync  and verify the Repo is there, then click Sync Now    
   2. Method 2 = command line, skip to next step 8 
   3. Method 3 – To only sync select packages to Repo, Skip to Step 10.  
8. Use spacewalk-repo-sync to sync packages from thirdparty (postgresql ) Repo 
   1. ]# spacewalk-repo-sync --channel postgresql-9.1 
9. To push single packages Use rhnpush to move to satellite all PostgreSQL server packages. 
   1. # rhnpush postgresql91-9.1.4-3PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm postgresql91-contrib-9.1.4-3PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm postgresql91-libs-9.1.4-3PGDG.rhel6.x86_64.rpm --server=https://mysatellite.server.com/APP -u admin -p mypassword -c postgresql-9.1 

To SYNC (or update) Repo Channel  

• # spacewalk-repo-sync --channel postgresql92