Introduction A few days ago I got exposed to OpenAI’s new AI-based chatbot (ChatGPT), which can interact with end users in a conversational way. TL;DR — you can ask various questions, and the bot creates detailed and creative answers. This is one of the most impressive things I’ve seen lately, and…

Introduction As time goes by, the need for a central management tool for Kubernetes clusters rises. Organizations are deploying more and more clusters in different availability zones, regions, clouds and to the edge, Each has different sets of configurations, versions, and workloads. This is the point where managing so many clusters…

Introduction As technology keeps its exponential growth both in the business and innovation fields, There are many growing use case that challenge the way we think about architecture today. The cloud is here to stay, but there are some use cases that won’t entirely suite the architecture design that the cloud…

As we keep on pushing towards A microservices development approach and decouple our applications into smaller components that communicate with each other, it becomes harder to monitor each one of the components by itself. If we were used to having a server that runs an agent and takes care of…

We all know that Kubernetes is the new OS for our data center, whether it's in the cloud, on-premise, or at the edge. Using the Kubevirt.io project, we can now deploy VMs on top of Kubernetes in addition to containers. This allows us to take advantage of the agility and…

In this demo, I’d like to share the way you could create your custom golden image, based on RHEL 8.5 operating system, and publish it to Openshift Virtualization so that your customers will be able to use custom templates. First, we’ll use the RHEL Image Builder utility in order to…

As the data world becomes more and more similar to the development with data sets being used as git repositories, the evolvement of treating data as it was a product and having a complete MDLC (Machine Learning Development Lifecycle), Data Engineers might want to test their data pipelines locally, on…

In this article, I’ll show how you can build your own Kafka producer/consumer in minutes. We often need to be able to program our own producer/consumer for demos, functional testing, and sometimes even scale testing. In this article, I’ve used a pip3 library called kafka-python in order to interact with…

Dealing with air-gapped environments can sometimes be challenging and costly in terms of time and effort put in order to provide customers with a cloud-like user experience. Things differentiate too much and change too often, A thing which causes some of the simple procedures provided with the documentation to become…