When IRIS 2023.2 reaches general availability, we’ll be making some improvements to how we tag and distribute IRIS & IRIS for Health containers.

IRIS containers have been tagged using the full build number format, for example 2023.1.0.235.1.  Customers have been asking for more stable tags, so they don’t need to change their dockerfiles/Kubernetes files every time a new release is made.  With that in mind, we’re making the following changes to how we tag container images.

Major.Minor Tags:  Containers will be tagged with the year and release, but not the rest of the full build number.

Hey Community,

Enjoy the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Containers & Kubernetes - Proper Use and Lessons Learned @ Global Summit 2024

👩‍💻Looking to boost efficiency in your development and deployment process? See how Docker containers can help.

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Play the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Container Lifecycle - When is Your App Ready to Accept Work @ Global Summit 2023

Hi Developers,

Dive into the latest video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Working with Containers & InterSystems Technology @ Global Summit 2023

Hi Developers,

Enjoy watching the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ InterSystems Deployment Options @ Global Summit 2022

Announcing the InterSystems Container Registry web user interface

InterSystems is pleased to announce the release of the InterSystems Container Registry web user interface. This tool is designed to make it easier to discover, access, and use the many Container images hosted on ICR.

The InterSystems Container Registry UI is available at: https://containers.intersystems.com/contents

Community Edition Containers

When you visit the ICR user interface, you’ll have access to InterSystems' publicly available containers, including the IRIS community edition containers.

Hi Community,

Watch this video to get a brief overview of the near- and long-term plans for HealthShare containerization and Kubernetes adoption, as well as a preview/demo of our current progress.

⏯ The Future of HealthShare in the Cloud: Containers/ Kubernetes @ Global Summit 2022

Hey Developers, 

In this video you will learn what Kubernetes is and how it can be beneficial for deploying containerized application workloads:

⏯ Kubernetes Overview

Docker 20.10.14 (released March 23, 2022) changes the Linux capabilities given to containers in a manner that is incompatible with the Linux capability checker in InterSystems IRIS 2021.1 (and up) containers. 

Users running Docker 20.10.14 on Linux will find that IRIS 2021.1+ containers will fail to start and the logs will incorrectly report that required Linux capabilities are missing.  For example:

[ERROR] Required Linux capability cap_setuid is missing.
[ERROR] Required Linux capability cap_dac_override is missing.
[ERROR] Required Linux capability cap_fowner is missing.

Hey Developers, 

Learn about the changes we've made to InterSystems IRIS Containers, including security updates and the new web gateway container:

⏯ InterSystems IRIS Container Updates

The InterSystems Kubernetes Operation (IKO) version 3.3 is now available via the WRC download page and the InterSystems Container Registry.

IKO simplifies working with InterSystems IRIS or InterSystems IRIS for Health in Kubernetes by providing an easy-to-use irisCluster resource definition. See the documentation for a full list of features, including easy sharding, mirroring, and configuration of ECP.

IKO 3.3 Highlights:

• Support for 2021.2 and 2022.1 editions of InterSystems IRIS & IRIS for Health
• Support for Kuberentes 1.21
• Deploy common System Alerting and Monitoring (SAM) configurations as part of your irisCluster
• InterSystems API Manager (IAM) can now also be deployed and managed as part of the irisCluster
• Automatic tagging of mirror pair active side, so a service can always point to the active mirror member.

Hey Community, 

Learn about the changes we've made to InterSystems IRIS Containers, including security updates and the new web gateway container:

⏯ InterSystems IRIS Container Updates

Hi All! For those of you who attended experience labs at the 2021 Virtual Summit, you may recall that one of the lab sessions was around Kubernetes. We've now converted that lab to be fully on-demand. You can launch a small cluster of VMs and follow the exercise to manage your Kubernetes cluster, deploy InterSystems IRIS containers to it, and watch its self-healing nature when destroying a pod.

It's a great introduction to Kubernetes if you are interested! See here: Achieving High Availability with InterSystems IRIS and Kubernetes

Hi Developers,

The new video from Global summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Intersystems IRIS Kubernetes Operator

Hi everyone, 

Learn about iris-lockeddown, a version of the InterSystems IRIS data platform container designed to work with the most stringent container security policies:

⏯ Using Containers in Highly Secure Environments with IRIS Lockdown

I am pleased to announce the availability of InterSystems Container Registry. This provides a new distribution channel for customers to access container-based releases and previews. All Community Edition images are available in a public repository with no login required. All full released images (IRIS, IRIS for Health, Health Connect, System Alerting and Monitoring, InterSystems Cloud Manager) and utility images (such as arbiter, Web Gateway, and PasswordHash) require a login token, generated from your WRC account credentials.

Hi Community,

Please welcome the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Extending Interoperability with PEX & Containers

Those of you who run and support older-style legacy systems on IRIS may be interested in learning about and trying out a new framework I've built on top of my colleague Chris Munt's mg_web technology (details at https://github.com/chrisemunt/mg_web).

There are quite a few older-style and legacy applications out there whose useful life can be extended by making their functionality available as REST APIs.  To make this something that can be done quickly and easily, using modern, industrial-strength web servers, I've created what I'm calling mgweb-server:

https://github.

Hi Community,

Please welcome the new video recorded by @Evgeny Shvarov on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Developing InterSystems IRIS solution using GitHub Codespaces

AWS has officially released their second-generation Arm-based Graviton2 processors and associated Amazon EC2 M6g instance type, which boasts up to 40% better price performance over current generation Intel Xeon based M5 instances. 

A few months ago, InterSystems participated in the M6g preview program, and we ran a few benchmarks with InterSystems IRIS that showed compelling results. This led us to support ARM64 architectures for the first time.

Now you can try InterSystems IRIS and InterSystems IRIS for Health on Graviton2-based Amazon EC2 M6g instances for yourselves through the AWS Marketplace!

Hi Community!

We are pleased to invite you to the upcoming Online Meetup supported by InterSystems Israel Team on  May 26 at 3:00 PM IDT (Israel Daylight Time) / 8:00 EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)

Topic: Introduction to Using Containers

What awaits you?

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The new video from Global Summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Automated InterSystems IRIS Cloud Scaling

Hi Community,

The new video from Global Summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Leveraging Containers for DevOps

Hi Developers,

Enjoy watching the new video on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Diving into InterSystems Cloud Technology

Hi Community!

The new video from Global Summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ A Skeptics Guide to Containers

Hi Developers,

Please welcome the new video from Global Summit 2019 on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ InterSystems IRIS Cloud Roadmap

Hi Community,

The new video from Global Summit 2019 is already on InterSystems Developers YouTube:

⏯ Durable Data Storage with Containers

Hello all!

As we ObjectScript developers have been experiencing, preparing an environment to run CI related tasks can be quite the chore. This is why I have been thinking about how we could improve this workflow and the result of that effort is IRIS-CI.

See how it works here.

Quickstart

1.Download the image from the Docker Hub registry:

docker pull rfns/iris-ci:0.5.3

2. Run the container (with the default settings):

docker run --rm --name ci -t -v /path/to/your/app:/opt/ci/app rfns/iris-ci:0.5.3

Notice that volume mounting to /path/to/your/app? This is where the app should be.

Some of you on the Developer Community have probably interacted with @Luca Ravazzolo if you are interested in cloud and container topics... If so, you'll enjoy Episode 2 of our new podcast — we chatted with Luca about Kubernetes and the InterSystems Kubernetes Operator. He does a great job of explaining the technology and its benefits here!