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Despite the name, we hope you'll find these articles genuinely helpful! 😊
Who are we?
We're Thomas Jungbauer and Toni Schmidbauer — two seasoned IT professionals with over 20 years of experience each. Currently, we work as architects at Red Hat Austria, helping customers design and implement OpenShift and Ansible solutions.
What's this blog about?
Real-world problems, practical solutions. We document issues we've encountered in the field along with step-by-step guides to reproduce and resolve them. Our goal: save you hours of frustrating documentation searches and trial-and-error testing.
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Recent Posts
Routing Example
In part 5 of the OpenShift 4 and Service Mesh tutorials, basic routing, using the objects VirtualService and DesitnationRule, are described. All operations have been successfully tested on OpenShift 4.3.
Ingress with custom domain
| Since Service Mesh 1.1, there is a better way to achieve the following. Especially the manual creation of the route is not required anymore. Check the following article to Enable Automatic Route Creation. |
Often the question is how to get traffic into the Service Mesh when using a custom domains. Part 4 our our tutorials series OpenShift 4 and Service Mesh will use a dummy domain "hello-world.com" and explains the required settings which must be done.
Ingress Traffic
Part 3 of tutorial series OpenShift 4 and Service Mesh will show you how to create a Gateway and a VirtualService, so external traffic actually reaches your Mesh. It also provides an example script to run some curl in a loop.
Deploy Microservices
The second tutorials explains how to install an example application containing thee microservices. All operations have been successfully tested on OpenShift 4.3.
Installation
Everything has a start, this blog as well as the following tutorials. This series of tutorials shall provide a brief and working overview about OpenShift Service Mesh. It is starting with the installation and the first steps, and will continue with advanced settings and configuration options.
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