John Hanley

Security, software development and devops in a cloud world - AWS, Azure, Google, IBM & Alibaba

IBM Cloud – Creating a Lite Account

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Introduction IBM Cloud offers three types of accounts: Lite, Pay-As-You-Go and Subscription. This article will detail creating a Lite account. This account type does not require a credit card and guarantees zero cost (link). This account type never expires. IBM… Continue Reading →

HashiCorp Nomad – Executing the CLI Remotely

Introduction This article discusses how to set up SSH tunnels to run the HashiCorp Nomad CLI remotely from a Windows desktop. I recently built a single node HashiCorp Nomad cluster in dev mode on IBM Cloud. This is a single… Continue Reading →

IBM Cloud – Getting Started with a Free Kubernetes Cluster

Introduction IBM Cloud has a vast array of services. Over 190 services today. One of those services is Kubernetes. This article shows how to set up a free Kubernetes cluster in IBM Cloud. Kubernetes is an open-source container-orchestration system for automating… Continue Reading →

Getting Started with IBM Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift & Serverless Containers

The following podcast was recorded by Mike Pfeiffer of Cloud Skills. Check out the other podcasts on his site: CloudSkills.fm. Mike has very good industry information within his podcasts. In this episode, I discuss getting started with IBM Cloud, Red Hat OpenShift,… Continue Reading →

Red Hat – OpenShift Online Free Tier

Introduction Red Hat has several resources to help you get started with OpenShift. This is my second article on Red Hat OpenShift. This article will cover the free test drive for the OpenShift Container Platform. OpenShift® Online is hosted and managed… Continue Reading →

Red Hat – OpenShift for Operations

Introduction Red Hat has several resources to help you get started with OpenShift. This is my first article on Red Hat OpenShift. This article will cover the free test drive for the OpenShift Container Platform. The Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform test… Continue Reading →

IBM Cloud – Securing a Cloud Server

Introduction This is part 2 of my series on IBM Cloud – Provisioning a Cloud Server. In this part, we will perform several tasks to improve the virtual server’s security and access. Review hardware firewall options. Lockdown external access by… Continue Reading →

IBM Cloud – Provisioning a Cloud Server

Introduction Today is Saturday, so I decided to write another article about IBM Cloud. Today, I will build an IBM Cloud Virtual Server Instance (VSI) running Ubuntu 18.04. This article is the first part of a series on provisioning virtual… Continue Reading →

IBM Cloud – Learning the Basics – Week 1

Part 1: Introduction For several years, I have wanted to learn more about IBM Cloud. Last week, I was at a Google Presentation (I was one of the speakers) on Google Cloud Run, and IBM Cloud Kubernetes was demonstrated. That… Continue Reading →

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