Julio Perera is a Senior Maximo/MAS Technical Consultant at Interloc Solutions with over 16 years of experience in IBM Maximo architecture, implementations, integrations, and cloud deployments. An IBM Champion for 2024, 2025, and 2026, Julio has supported complex Maximo projects worldwide. His expertise includes MAS, Red Hat OpenShift, and enterprise integrations. A recognized technical expert, Julio shares his knowledge through industry presentations, technical blogs, and customer training.
IBM | IBM Maximo | Maximo Enterprise Asset Management Solutions | IBM MAS | OpenShift | Enterprise asset management (EAM) | IBM Maximo Application Suite | air-gapped deployment prep | offline OpenShift cluster | OpenShift Image Registry | OpenShift Image Mirroring
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Julio Perera
June 4th, 2026
We are continuing our series of Blog Entries to cover some MAS deployment scenarios either left out or not appropriately covered on the IBM Ansible scripts. We are going to also discuss considerations and tips and hints around these deployments. This time we are installing an offline OpenShift Cluster and Mirroring the required Image Registries. This is Part 1 of 3, to cover preparation and initial installation.
IBM | Interloc Solutions | Maximo Implementation | IBM Maximo | Resources | Performance | Interloc | IBM Maximo 7.6 | Maximo Application Suite | Interloc Commitment | Operational Efficiency | Maximo Mapping Solutions | IBM MAS | OpenShift | Maximo Applications Suite 9.1 | RedHat
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Julio Perera
September 23rd, 2025
Abstract: We are continuing our series of Blog Entries to cover some MAS deployment scenarios either left out or not appropriately covered on the IBM Ansible scripts. We are going to also discuss considerations and tips and hints around these deployments. This time we are configuring automated DB2 backups against a pre-existing Storage Class and discussing limitations and considerations as well.
IBM | Implementation | Integration | IBM Maximo | Maximo Usability | Performance | asset management | asset management solution | IBM Mobile Informer | IBM Maximo Resources | maximo implementations | IBM Maximo Web Service Logging | Maximo Hosting | Maximo SaaS | Smart Monitoring | Infrastructure Automation | IBM MAS | OpenShift | RedHat
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Julio Perera
September 3rd, 2025
Abstract: We are continuing our series of Blog Entries to cover some MAS deployment scenarios either left out or not appropriately covered on the IBM Ansible scripts. We are going to also discuss considerations and tips and hints around these deployments. This time we are configuring automated DB2 backups against a pre-existing Storage Class and discussing limitations and considerations as well.
MongoDB Backup | Automated Backups | IBM MAS | OpenShift | Ansible Scripts | MAS Deployment | OpenShift Cron Jobs
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Julio Perera
July 27th, 2025
Abstract: We are continuing our series of Blog Entries to cover some MAS deployment scenarios either left out or not appropriately covered on the IBM Ansible scripts. We are going to also discuss considerations and tips and hints around these deployments. This time we are configuring automated MongoDB backups against a pre-existing Storage Class and discuss limitations and considerations as well.
Interloc Solutions | Kubernetes | S3 Storage | Object Storage | DaemonSet | Cloud Native | CSI Driver | Kubernetes Storage | YAML Configuration | CSI Provisioner | Kubernetes CSI | Maximo Integration | CSI Node Plugin | Kubernetes RBAC | Infrastructure Automation
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Julio Perera
July 8th, 2025
Abstract: We are continuing our series of Blog Entries to cover some MAS deployment scenarios either left out or not appropriately covered on the IBM Ansible scripts. We are going to also discuss considerations and tips and hints around these deployments. This time we are configuring and creating a Storage Class for the RedHat OpenShift Cluster so it can be used in some scenarios.
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Julio Perera
February 19th, 2025
While the IBM Ansible scripting covers the installation of the AI broker, at the time of writing, there are several dependencies and caveats that are not installed by default and the documentation is insufficient to completely do a successful installation.