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Taylor Smith
Engineering Partner Manager
Taylor works closely with our technology partners along their partner journey to certify, integrate and align with Red Hat platforms.

Articles by Taylor Smith

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Updating Operators for OpenShift 4.9

October 14, 2021
By Taylor Smith
Kubernetes has removed several APIs from version 1.22. Any Operators utilizing these deprecated APIs will not work on OpenShift 4.9+ (or any cluster vendor utilizing Kubernetes 1.22) and will block your
cicd

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Introducing a new, enhanced certification tooling for container images

March 15, 2022
By Taylor Smith
Our new certification tooling allows you to run the certification tests on your own computer through the downloadable preflight tool. All you need is a Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system and access to the image you want to certify.
openshift oiperators

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Updating your operators for OpenShift when Kubernetes changes APIs

June 9, 2022
By Taylor Smith
Beginning with Kubernetes 1.16, the Kubernetes project periodically deprecates and removes APIs from the platform in order to maintain a clean, high functioning set of APIs.
pod security

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Important OpenShift changes to Pod Security Standards

August 3, 2022
By Taylor Smith
The Kubernetes project periodically deprecates and removes APIs from the platform. Any time the Kubernetes project deprecates or removes APIs, projects using the affected APIs must adjust to accommodate these changes. OpenShift, and Red Hat partners running workloads and providing solutions for use on OpenShift, subsequently must also adopt and adjust to these upstream changes.
osp

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Using OpenShift Pipelines CI/CD and Quay for Container Certification

August 11, 2022
By Taylor Smith
How do you build and implement your own CI/CD pipeline and more importantly why would you? Find out the rationale and reasoning as to why you would do this as well as how to do it.
oslab

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Introducing OpenShift Partner Lab

November 15, 2022
By Taylor Smith
OPL is a collaborative environment to utilize during the final phases of the development process for short-term, one day to one month, reservations.
container conducting

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Certified product distribution methods: Breaking it down

May 30, 2023
By Taylor Smith
We explore how to alleviate uncertainty on the subject of why or how to utilize on distribution method over another when certifying your container images, Helm charts or operators for OpenShift.
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