A technical blog about HCL Connections, HCL Domino and other stuff
HCL is using OpenSearch as part of its component pack for HCL Connections 8 for metrics and the typeahead functionality. The standard settings for the OpenSearch are rather conservative, and might not work for your environment. In particular if your environment is heavily used, you might run into problems. HCL did provide a possibility in their Helm chart to tune the settings. This article explains how to use it.
Continue readingNormally a Kubernetes environment is well maintained and regularly updated with the most recent versions of Kubernetes. However, with a
Continue readingThere can be good reasons to make your pods think that myurl.example.org resides at a different IP address than your dns servers would answer. This blog shows a quick and dirty way to establish just that
Continue readingIn part 6 we look at the configuration that’s needed for the Component pack
Continue readingIn the previous part I discussed preparing the environment for the applications. If everything is working till this point, then installing the applications is actually really easy
Continue readingPart 4 discusses installing the Connections environment and infratstructure. Everything up to installing the actual applications themselves
Continue readingAs a next step we’ll import the components of the Component pack into a Docker registry. If you have an
Continue readingIn the 2nd part of this series about installing the component pack for HCL Connections 6.5 CR1, I discuss the installation of the remaining prerequisites: Kubernetes, Calico and Helm.
Continue readingAs I’m currently installing the HCL Connections 6.5 CR1 component pack at a customer I run into a lot of points where the HCL documentation is simply outdated or very confusing. In a series of articles I plan to write about the caveats in the documentation, to hopefully help you with your installation. In this first part I cover Docker.
Continue readingComponent pack 6.5.0.1 came with support for recent versions of Kubernetes, Docker and Helm. It turned out however that the included version of the Helm chart for Activities Plus couldn’t deal with these versions. This post explains where to get the updated Helm chart.
Continue readingThis is a collection of things I encountered during my work and were interesting enough to write down. Both for myself and for others. Topics include HCL Connections, HCL Domino, Linux, SQL etc.
