Special Interest Groups
Being a part of an inclusive, open, and inviting community such as Commons means that you're part of the conversation. Our Special Interest Groups (SIG) are designed so that you can find everything you need in one place around a central topic.
The purpose of the edge SIG is to collaborate and share information around best practices and lessons learned for the community’s deployment at the edge.
About edge computing
Simply put, edge computing is when compute/insights/decisions happen outside of larger, centralized data centers and public clouds. This Special Interest Group is a way for the community to meet, discuss and share information about a quickly-growing, highly-variable subject.
The focus of the Validated Patterns SIG is to discuss common use cases and the business problems being solved in order to spark conversation and share architectures. In discussing the use cases being developed, we can learn from each other and understand why specific components were chosen and allow each of us to grow over time. This SIG is open to all Architecture related Communities of Practice.
Introduction
Watch this video to see benefits of using Patterns to deploy distributed architectures
Principles
- Distributed reference architectures
- GitOps Framework
- Declarative modalities
- Repeatable, Scalable, Extensible
- Built and Maintained as code
- Fast track proofs of concept (POCs)
- Create repeatable frameworks for easier testing and deployment
About Validated Patterns
Validated Patterns are an evolution of how you deploy applications in a hybrid cloud. With a pattern, you can automatically deploy a full application stack through a GitOps-based framework. With this framework, you can create business-centric solutions while maintaining a level of Continuous Integration (CI) over your application.
Ready to join us? Check out the Agenda doc, join the Slack channel, and add us to your Calendar. Missed a session? Take a look at our Playlist and Submit a talk for a future session.
The Data Special Interest Group (SIG) is a forum for lively interactions about all things data related. Whether you’re working on solutions for Storage and Data Services, Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Databases and Data Cache, Data Discovery and Federation—THIS IS THE PLACE TO BE!
Introduction
Check out this video on data storage modalities and use cases. Just one of many subjects open for discussion.
Principles
- Persistence and Storage in Kubernetes
- Business Continuity
- Disaster Recovery strategies
- Data security and governance
- Databases, Vectors, and Graphs
- Warehouses, Data Lakes, & Lake Houses
- Data discovery and federation
- Search and queries
About the Data SIG
Come join fellow practitioners, share ideas, successes, questions. This SIG is open to a wide breadth of topics across industries and workloads. Talks may include subjects such as data concerns in modern Virtualization platforms, backup and recovery best practices to address Ransomware attacks, federated queries driving better business insights, database resiliency in Kubernetes, how organizations are using vector and graph databases for Generative AI, and so much more!
Ready to join us? Check out the Agenda doc, join the Slack channel, and add us to your Calendar. Missed a session? Take a look at our Playlist and Submit a talk for a future session.
The purpose of the DevSecOps SIG is to collaborate and share information around best practices and lessons learned for the DevSecOps community.
Briefing
Red Hat's John Willis gives a brief introduction to DevSecOps.
Principles
- Customer Focused Mindset
- Scale Security
- Objective Criteria
- Proactive Hunting
- Continuous Detection and Response
About DevSecOps
DevSecOps is as much about operations as it is about development. This Special Interest Group is way for like-minded engineers to discuss and share information to aid in security on OpenShift.
The principal purpose of the Machine Learning on OpenShift Special Interest Group is to discuss, develop and disseminate best practices for deploying and managing Machine Learning workloads and applications on OpenShift built using (but not limited to) TensorFlow, Apache Spark and other Open Source ML/AI frameworks.
The principal purpose of the OpenShift .EDU Special Interest Group is to collaborate and discuss items for the OpenShift platform in .EDU setting.
The principal purpose of the OpenShift Image Builders Special Interest Group is to collaborate and discuss Best Practices for building and maintaining Images for use with OpenShift.
The principal purpose of the Energy Special Interest Group is to discuss, develop and disseminate best practices to support energy companies as they modernize their IT infrastructures on OpenShift.
The principal purpose of the OpenShift on IBM Cloud Special Interest Group is to collaborate and share information around best practices for operating and maintaining OpenShift environments on IBM Cloud.
Briefing
IBM's Sai Vennam gives a guided tour of OpenShift on IBM Cloud.
About OpenShift on IBM Cloud
This Special Interest Group is for like-minded IT practitioners, engineers and developers to discuss and share information about deploying and maintaining OpenShift at scale on IBM Cloud.
Topics Covered
- Leveraging OpenShift tools and APIs for a single, consistent experience across hybrid environments or different cloud providers.
- Protecting cluster infrastructure, isolating compute resources, encrypting data, and ensuring security compliance.
- Quickly setting up a CI/CD with Jenkins or deploying a variety of apps in a guided experience that's fully integrated into your OpenShift cluster.
- Using built-in services for monitoring, logging, load-balancing, storage, and security.
- Deploying and scaling workloads with a managed master that is automatically spread across zones within a region for high availability.
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Test your container skills with PODESCAPE, an endless runner of a pod trying to escape from a project being deleted. Compete with fellow devs for the highest score. And don't be fooled by the retro feel...with the git link you can tinker under the hood with OpenShift on IBM Cloud, MongoDB, and OpenShift Container Storage.
The principal purpose of the OpenShift on OpenStack Special Interest Group is to discuss, develop and disseminate best practices for deploying and managing OpenShift on OpenStack.
The principal purpose of the OpenShift in .GOV Special Interest Group is to discuss, develop and disseminate best practices for deploying and managing OpenShift in .GOV.
The principal purpose of the OpenShift in Automotive Special Interest Group is to discuss, develop and disseminate best practices for deploying and managing OpenShift in Automotive.
The principal purpose of the Mobile on OpenShift Special Interest Group is to discuss, develop and disseminate best practices for deploying and managing Mobile Applications on OpenShift built on (but not limited to) FeedHenry and a wide variety of popular toolkits including native SDKs, hybrid Apache Cordova, HTML5 and Titanium, as well as frameworks such as Xamarin, Sencha Touch, and other JavaScript frameworks.
An Operator is a method of packaging, deploying and managing a Kubernetes application. A Kubernetes application is an application that is both deployed on Kubernetes and managed using the Kubernetes APIs and kubectl tooling. To be able to make the most of Kubernetes, you need a set of cohesive APIs to extend in order to service and manage your applications that run on Kubernetes. You can think of Operators as the runtime that manages this type of application on Kubernetes.
Join the Operator Framework Special Interest Group
The principal purpose of the Operator Framework SIG is to discuss, develop and disseminate best practices for building Operators, using Operators and help grow the Operator ecosystem by engaging and learning from Operator authors, users and contributors to the Operator Framework itself.