Network Manager Network Manager is a requirement from CRC for handling network. After installing CentOS install Network Manager. yum install NetworkManager … To see if NetworkManager is able to handle the interfaces the cli can be used: nmcli nmtui DNS resolution dnsmasq Configure and install dnsmasq. yum install dnsmasq Edit Read more…
Red Hat CRC is intended to be run on a laptop locally. That includes the web access to the UI. For a local lab setup where a separate computer is used to run software, this is not the best usage scenario. Good news is that it is possible and you Read more…
Red Hat CodeReady Containers allows to run a local OpenShift 4 environment locally on a Laptop. While it can be installed on a wide range of systems, one of the better choices is Red Hat Linux or a similar system like CentOS. Preparations Check if some preparations need to be Read more…
Nested virtualization allows to run a hypervisor inside a VM. You have a VM running in Proxmox, and that VM is running another VM. The guest VM is the host for another guest VM: Host -> VM => runs another VM. The Proxmox Wiki contains some more information about the Read more…
Microsoft Build conference is currently running and full of announcements. You can read the in the book of news published by Microsoft to get an overview. One of the most impactful announcements concerns Azure apps. You can now run Azure application services (App Service, Functions, Logic Apps, Event Grid, API Read more…
After installing a new VM guest on Proxmox you may see in the overview page of the host that no guest agent is configured. In the options section the guest agent is listed das disabled. Setting up the guest agent is an optional task. The VM runs perfectly fine without Read more…
Mobile platforms promise to help creating and running mobile apps. Mobile apps connect to the mobile platform, consume services and backends made available by the platform. They are offered by several vendors. For instance, SAP offers SAP mobile services in the SAP Cloud Platform, Oracle has mobile hub. It’s an Read more…
In the SAML 2.0 SSO logon with automatic user creation scenario, the user is created in the SAP system by a BADI. The user information send by the SAML 2.0 IdP is contained in the SAML response. In my previous blog I have shown how the user profile is configured Read more…
The user creation scenario is an extension to the “simple” SAML 2.0 SSO scenario. Therefore, a pre-requisite is to have the SAML 2.0 IdP and SP configured to trust each other. A logon from IdP to SP with an existing user must work. In my case, the external Identity Provider Read more…
The ICF configuration is more complex than the standard SAML 2.0 configuration. Instead of just validating the SAML 2.0 response, the response must be validated, and a user created or update. To be able to create / update a user, the response received must be handled by a service user. Read more…