Episode 234: Getting Started with OpenShift

Containers are amazing but managing them one by one can be a nightmare! Steve Ovens joins us as we discuss the best way to manage container workloads with tools like OpenShift and OKD.

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01:12 - Dave Follows up from EP 212 - Dave

Avantree Bluetooth
- Play/Pause works
- Volume Buttons change headset volume not desktop volume
- Mic is clear
- Not USB-C
- Another Dongle
- Volume issues in Mic mode

03:45 - Multitrack recording under Linux? - Ryan

Get Jacked from JB
RME is considered High End
Studio uses Axia
Try Pipewire on Fedora
Try using individual USB Audio devices
Scarlett 18i8 3rd Gen USB Audio

11:00 - Managing a Cert Authority - Mike

13:22 - Nextcloud hosting provider vs self hosting - Rodney

Use block storage (S3 Compatible Storage)
OVH - Supplemented by Canadian GOV
Kimsufi - Where OVH servers go to die (still a good option)

15:00 Caller - Tony

From the Chat - ZFS/BTRFS snapshots
Clonezilla
Hypervisor can lie about disk flushes, this breaks ZFS/BTRFS
HDD Passthrough solves this
IX Systems Post about virtualizing FreeNAS

25:15 Pick of the Week

Open RGB
OpenSource RGB light control

26:05 Gadget of the Week

Ruggtek RTL 310
- 10.1 1920 x 1200 Display
- Multi-Touch
- Intel Quad-Core
- 4GB RAM
- 64GB RAM
- Comes with Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE
Ruggtek RPL 550
- 5.5" 1080 x 1920 Display
- Intel Quad-Core
- 4GB RAM
- 64GB Storage
- Comes with Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSUSE

28:30 Containers/OpenShift

Containers isolate processes with Cgroups
System level containers
- Similar to VMs
- LXD
Application level containers
- Used by most businesses
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift/OKD
- Docker
- Podman
Docker runs as root
Podman is more modern and fixes this
Fedora CoreOS
- Made for running containers
- Uses RPM OStree vs standard packages
- Runs podman not docker
OCI compliant - cross platform compliant containers
OKD
OKD Github
SSH into containers
- You can
- Not by default
- You really shouldn't
Exec into a container is similar to SSH
Containers are supposed to be disposable
Container Management
- Kubernetes
- OpenShift/OKD
- Many others
To install you need to know
- SSH
- Basic Networking
- Yaml
Container Management gets you
- Load Balancing
- High Availability
- Monitoring
- etc
Containers are ephemeral by default
Containers typically have a shared storage backend
OpenShift/OKD Takes care of a lot of networking for you
There are two networks involved
- Communication - Container to Container
- LAN - Traditional Network
docs.okd.io
Katacoda

54:05 Facefish

Netlab 360
Dropper and Rootkit
Ring 3 layer
Backdoor can
- Upload device information
- Steal user credentials
- Bounce Shell
- Execute commands

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