Ritesh Raj – Medium

Feb 2

Istio — How it solves EiT (Encryption-in-Transit) in a Microservices Architecture (MSA)

Introduction With a growing demand for MSA due to its various advantages, Organizations are containerizing their workloads faster and migrating them to their preferred Container Orchestration Platform such as Kubernetes (Self-managed, EKS, GKE, AKS, IKS, Redhat OCP and many more). This poses various challenges too including securing your data in transit…

Istio

12 min read

Feb 16, 2021

Deploying Kafka on Openshift with TLS based External Access

Introduction As part of deploying one of the Packaged Application on Openshift 4.4, Kafka brokers were a pre-requisite to provide an asynchronous messaging service used by the microservices component of the application. The packaged application installer does come with a Kafka setup within its installer. However, the Independent Software Vendor (ISV)…

Kafka

8 min read

Nov 27, 2020

Deploying OpenLDAP on Openshift with Users Bootstrapped

Recently, we integrated an external Identity Provider, Keycloak (based on RedHat SSO) with one of the Packaged Application deployments on Openshift 4.3. However, Keycloak require new Users to be created manually each time a new instance of the Packaged Application was integrated with it. This issue was resolved by Federating…

Openldap

7 min read

Oct 5, 2020

Deploying PostgreSQL on Openshift with sslmode=verify-full

Recently, we required a PostgreSQL DB service with SSL mode enabled for one of the Packaged Application deployment on Openshift 4.3. An added challenge was to make the PostgreSQL DB running inside the Openshift Cluster accessible publicly. Initially, I thought that it was quite easy as Openshift provides PostgreSQL templates…

Postgresql

8 min read