Five part article series introducing Go on OCI
Go – sometimes Golang because internet searching for just “go” is quite impossible – is a popular programming language. It was initially launched in 2012 and as been gaining …
Tag: kubernetes
Overhead of Service Mesh–measuring and comparing Istio, Linkerd, Kuma and Consul
A Service Mesh can provide many facilities regarding traffic management between microservices – from simple routing and load balancing, producing telemetry to applying complex routing logic and security policies. …
Quickly try out Kubernetes with two Pods–web app and database
Two colleagues wanted to try out Kubernetes and more specifically deployment of an application on Kubernetes that was not entirely trivial. One that consists of at least two Pods …
Which tools and technologies are new and exciting, proven, growing stale–report from Devoxx 2022
October 14, 2022
Architecture, Cloud, Frontend technology, Kubernetes, Software Development
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A conference such as Devoxx is a great opportunity to get inspired into trying out tools and technologies that may not or only be vaguely be known as they …
Reflections from Devoxx 2022–on software engineering today
End of day two. So many topics already were presented, demonstrated, discussed, tried out to and by me. This article is just a very brief overview of what caught …
Adding Podman to my VM with Minikube (part 2)
For a demo, I needed an environment with Minikube, using the Podman driver as an alternative container runtime to the Docker driver. In my previous article, I shared with …
Adding Podman to my VM with Minikube (part 1)
For a demo, I needed an environment with Minikube, using the Podman driver as an alternative container runtime to the Docker driver. Lucky for me, I had the configuration …
Oracle Cloud’s marching order: win developers’ hearts and minds
There are two public cloud. AWS and Azure. That is not actually the case – but that is how sometimes it may seem. A third cloud is frequently listed …
Adding Grafana to my VM with Minikube and Elasticsearch
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 …
Trouble shooting while upgrading a VM with Minikube, Elasticsearch and Kibana (using the –vm-driver=none option) –on my Windows laptop using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox
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. …
Dapr on OKE–Distributed Application Runtime on OCI Kubernetes Engine
One of the most exciting frameworks I have ran into into recent years is Dapr (dapr.io) – distributed application runtime. Dapr is a cross technology runtime framework that supports …
Getting started (again) with Kubernetes on Oracle Cloud
For many of my recent activities, I have not worked with or even on (knowingly at least) Kubernetes. So for many months I have not touched my OKE cluster …
OCI DevOps–Free Automated Cloud Native Application Deployment to Oracle Cloud
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 …
Jenkins Pipeline: SonarQube and the OWASP Dependency-Check
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‘. …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out Quarkus guide “Quarkus – Kubernetes extension” (part 3)
In this article, you can read more about the Quarkus code guide I tried out, related to the following topic: The ability to automatically generate Kubernetes resources by Quarkus …
Surprisingly easy: Anchore Engine for container vulnerability scanning in a Jenkins pipeline running on Kubernetes
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 …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out Quarkus guide “Quarkus – Kubernetes extension” (part 2)
In this article, you can read more about the Quarkus code guide I tried out, related to the following topic: The ability to automatically generate Kubernetes resources by Quarkus …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out Quarkus guide “Quarkus – Kubernetes extension” (part 1)
In this article, you can read more about the Quarkus code guide I tried out, related to the following topic: The ability to automatically generate Kubernetes resources by Quarkus …
Jenkins: Building Java and deploying to Kubernetes
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 …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out some Quarkus code guides (part2)
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 …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, trying out some Quarkus code guides (part1)
In my previous article, I already shared with you the Quarkus code guide “Quarkus – Creating Your First Application”, I tried out, including the hot deployment with background compilation. …
Using Vagrant and shell scripts to further automate setting up my Quarkus demo environment from scratch and trying out a Quarkus code guide
In my previous article, I shared with you the steps I took, to set up a demo environment, so I could get started with Quarkus. In this article, you …
Quarkus – Supersonic Subatomic Java, setting up a demo environment using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox
In November 2019, I attended Devoxx Belgium together with other AMIS colleagues. The yearly gathering of over 3000 Java developers (numbers provided by Devoxx website) were Java and software …
OpenEBS: cStor storage engine on KVM
OpenEBS provides a Kubernetes native distributed storage solution which is friendly on developers and administrators. It is completely open source and part of the CNCF. Previously I wrote about …
Production-like Kubernetes on your laptop. Kubespray on KVM
There are various options to install a production-like Kubernetes distribution on your laptop. Previously I tried out using the Canonical stack (Juju, MAAS, Charmed Kubernetes) for this. This worked nicely but …
The Six-part REAL Oracle Cloud platform Webinar Series – Cloud Native Live Demo and Hands-On Oracle Developer Meetup sessions – kicking off June 10th 2020
Attend this series of six live webinars to get going with cloud native application development on the Oracle Cloud platform, created and presented by REAL specialists. The Red Expert …
OpenEBS: Create persistent storage in your Charmed Kubernetes cluster quick and easy!
As a developer I wanted to experiment with Kubernetes environments which approximate production deployments. In order to do that I wanted a distributed storage solution and chose OpenEBS. Mainly …
Charmed Kubernetes on KVM using MAAS and Juju
Coming to this solution was a journey. I was looking for a Kubernetes installation which was easy to deploy and cleanup on my own laptop (I didn’t want to …
Creating a re-usable Vagrant Box from an existing VM with Ubuntu and k3s (with the Kubernetes Dashboard) and adding mysql, using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox
In a previous article, I shared with you the steps I took, to get k3s installed (with the Kubernetes Dashboard) on top of an Ubuntu guest Operating System within …
Quick and easy: A multi-node Kubernetes cluster on CentOS 7 + QEMU/KVM (libvirt)
Kubernetes is a popular container orchestration platform. As a developer understanding the environment in which your application is going to run is important since this can help you use …
Access OCI OKE Kubernetes Dashboard locally through Cloud Shell Proxy and ngrok
This article tells you how to access the Kubernetes Dashboard on top of an Oracle Cloud Infrastructure OKE Cluster Instance from a browser – without locally installing kubectl. This …
Rapidly spinning up a VM with Ubuntu and k3s (with the Kubernetes Dashboard) on my Windows laptop using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox
In November of last year, my colleague Lucas Jellema, wrote an article with the title “Ultra fast, ultra small Kubernetes on Linux – K3S beating minikube”. For training and …
Ultra fast, ultra small Kubernetes on Linux – K3S beating minikube
The easiest way I knew for running a local Kubernetes cluster was minikube. It installs like a breeze and creates a fresh clean cluster with minimal effort on my …
The state of Java [developers] – reflections on Devoxx 2019
I attended Devoxx Belgium – November 2019. The yearly gathering of over 3000 Java developers (numbers provided by Devoxx website). Maybe not all of them Java and perhaps some …
Using Elastic Stack, Filebeat and Logstash (for log aggregation)
In a previous article I described how I used ElasticSearch, Filebeat and Kibana, for log aggregation (getting log information available at a centralized location). In this article I will …
Changing the configuration of an Oracle WebLogic Domain, deployed on a Kubernetes cluster using Oracle WebLogic Server Kubernetes Operator (part 2)
At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camp IX 2019 in Lisbon, held at the end of August, I followed a 5 day during workshop called “Modern Application Development with …
Changing the configuration of an Oracle WebLogic Domain, deployed on a Kubernetes cluster using Oracle WebLogic Server Kubernetes Operator (part 1)
At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camp IX 2019 in Lisbon, held at the end of August, I followed a 5 day during workshop called “Modern Application Development with …
Deploying an Oracle WebLogic Domain on a Kubernetes cluster using Oracle WebLogic Server Kubernetes Operator
At the Oracle Partner PaaS Summer Camp IX 2019 in Lisbon, held at the end of August, I followed a 5 day during workshop called “Modern Application Development with …
Using Elastic Stack, Filebeat (for log aggregation)
In my last article I described how I used ElasticSearch, Fluentd and Kibana (EFK). Besides log aggregation (getting log information available at a centralized location), I also described how …
Using ElasticSearch, Fluentd and Kibana (for log aggregation)
In my last article I described how I installed ElasticSearch, Fluentd and Kibana (EFK). In this article I will dive into using ElasticSearch, Fluentd and Kibana. Besides log aggregation …