Creating a PHP application on Openshift

What is OpenShift? It is a cloud, it is from Red Hat. More precisely: A PaaS (Platform As A Service). It is available since quite some time now and I finally found some time to test it. Conclusion: It is very simple to use. This will guide you how to create a PHP application which just prints “this is a test”. More to come in future postings. The following steps are needed: Create an account Installing the CLI and setting ….Read More

Red Hat’s virtualization strategy has redundancy – Quo vadis?

A couple of days there have been some reports that Red Hat will release a commercialized version of deltacloud, an abstraction layer for different kinds of virtualization technologies and clouds such as VMware, RHEV, Amazon EC2 etc. Red Hat puts a lot of resources on virtualization, they maintain and/or sponsor multiple projects in parallel. The most important from my point of view is libvirt which is as well an abstraction layer for different virtulization technologies such as VMware, KVM, Xen ….Read More