Category: Continuous Delivery
Yesterday Oracle released their latest Autonomous database offering in a container image to try (most of) the Automous database technology without requiring access to the Oracle Cloud (OCI). This …
The production database is the holy grail of any organisation or at least any microservice or business application. The data and the current structures and definitions of the database …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure DevOps is a service I have written about on several occasions. The OCI DevOps service provides an Artifact Repository, Git Code repositories, Build Pipelines and Deployment …
Container Instances on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure are VM based environments that can be leveraged as “serverless” container runtimes. Once a container instance has been defined – which is a …
For the Open Day we organize shortly for our family, friends, neighbours and other interested parties, my colleagues create a custom web application to support our QR Scavenger Hunt …
Apache NiFi has a powerful web-based interface which provides a seamless experience between design, control, feedback, and monitoring. Sometimes however, you want to automate tasks instead of doing them …
Apache NiFi is an easy to use, powerful, and reliable system to process and distribute data. It has a powerful UI which can be used for both development and …
For a demo, I needed an environment with Grafana. Lucky for me, I had the configuration for such an environment using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox. In the past, I …
I’ve used Vagrant since 2015 in combination with Virtualbox for creating development machines. Recently however I’m experiencing more issues with Virtualbox. For example CPUs getting stuck when assigning multiple …
For a demo, I needed an environment including Elasticsearch and Kibana (Elastic Stack). Lucky for me, I had the configuration for such an environment using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox. …
I wanted to set up a demo environment with Apache Kafka (an open-source distributed event streaming platform) and an Oracle Database, all within containers. For my purpose I opted …
I wanted to set up a demo environment with Apache Kafka (an open-source distributed event streaming platform) and an Oracle Database, all within containers. For my purpose I opted …
I wanted to set up a demo environment with Apache Kafka (an open-source distributed event streaming platform) and an Oracle Database, all within containers. For my purpose I opted …
I wanted to set up a demo environment with Apache Kafka (an open-source distributed event streaming platform) and an Oracle Database, all within containers. For my purpose I opted …
I wanted to set up a demo environment with Apache Kafka (an open-source distributed event streaming platform) and an Oracle Database, all within containers. For my purpose I opted …
Automation through infrastructure as code is the name of the game. And I am a player in that game. In the last few weeks I have spent a lot …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure offers the Functions service, a FaaS offering with serverless functions, based on container images built with the Project Fn FDK. In a previous article, I introduced …
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure has a free DevOps cloud service that includes build and deploy pipelines in addition to source code and artifact repositories. I have written about OCI DevOps …
I wanted to set up a demo environment with Apache Kafka (an open-source distributed event streaming platform) and an Oracle Database, all within containers. For my purpose I opted …
Deployment is a term used frequently and often casually in software engineering. A term that for a long time was a bit cryptic to me. What exactly is deployment …
In this blog I will explain how to generate static HTML pages from your projects Pydoc (docstring) comments with Sphinx. Then we are going to host it in an …
Introduction I think that every production environment in Azure uses Automation Accounts for f.e. scheduled tasks. Up to recently, you were forced to use the Run As user to …
SonarCloud is a hosted SonarQube SaaS solution which helps you with code quality management. It is free to use for open source projects. You cannot install 3rd party plugins …
GitHub Actions allow you to do most CI/CD tasks for free, directly from your GitHub repository. One of the challenges however is that there is no build-in facility like …
I’m a regular user of GitHub. Recently I discovered GitHub also has a build-in CI/CD workflow solution called GitHub Actions. Curious about how this would work I decided to …
OWASP ZAP (Zed Attack Proxy) is an open source dynamic application security testing (DAST) tool. It is available here and has a website with documentation here. I recently encountered it when looking …
Build is an overloaded term in the world of software engineering. Building software used to be mainly a fancy way of saying “programming”. Now after the construction of the …
What’s in a name? A title is important and I hope that it describes well what I do want to share with you in this series of articles. It …
It is often expected of a DevOps team to also take security into consideration when delivering software. Often however, this does not get the attention it deserves. In this …
Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (5)”, I told you about Git, Subversion, Maven and Flyway. In …
Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (4)”, I told you about the Oracle SQL Developer Data Modeler. …
Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (3)”, I told you about the Oracle Database and Oracle APEX. …
Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (2)”, I did show you the database structure. This time I …
Last time in “How to build an Oracle Database application (that supports APEX, Java, React or any other front-end) (1)”, I gave you an introduction. This time I will elaborate …
The OWASP Foundation plays an important role in helping to improve security of software worldwide. They have created a popular and well-known awareness document called the ‘OWASP Top 10‘. …
The Oracle Developer Cloud Service was probably the very first service on Oracle Cloud, as early as 2015 if I remember correctly. This service has been repositioned and relabeled …
Introduction In response to a demo I gave about deploying a docker container to the Azure platform, I received some questions about deploying a docker container to the AWS …
Anchore Engine is a popular open source tool for container image inspection and vulnerability scanning. It is easily integrated in a Kubernetes environment as an admission controller or in …
Kubernetes is a popular platform to run and manage containerized applications. A CI/CD solution is often needed but not always provided. You might need to set this up for …
In this article, you can read more about a Quarkus code guide I tried out, related to the following topic: Packaging the native executable in a container In a …
