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 …
Tag: Vagrant
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 …
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. …
Apache Kafka, setting up a demo environment using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox (part 2)
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 …
Apache Kafka, setting up a demo environment using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox (part 1)
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 …
Oracle Database 21c XE, setting up a demo environment using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox (part 4)
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 …
A quick and easy Apache NiFi development environment
Vagrant can be used to quickly create development environments in for example VirtualBox, VMWare or Hyper-V. I decided to use Vagrant to create a quick Apache NiFi development environment. …
Oracle Database 21c XE, setting up a demo environment using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox (part 3)
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 …
Oracle Database 21c XE, setting up a demo environment using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox (part 2)
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 …
Oracle Database 21c XE, setting up a demo environment using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox (part 1)
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Using Vagrant and shell scripts to further automate setting up my demo environment from scratch, including ElasticSearch, Fluentd and Kibana (EFK) within Minikube
For training and demo purposes, on my windows laptop, I needed an environment with a guest Operating System, Docker and Minikube available within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance. So, in …
Extremely convenient way to run free Oracle Database 18c on your laptop – or anywhere else – using Vagrant & Virtual Box
Oracle Database 18c XE (eXpress Edition) is the free community edition of the enterprise edition of Oracle Database. Oracle Database XE has almost all features of Oracle Database; however, …
6 tips to make your life with Vagrant even better!
HashiCorp Vagrant is a great tool to quickly get up and running with a development environment. In this blog post I’ll give some tips to make your life with …
Using Helm, the package manager for Kubernetes, to install two versions of a RESTful Web Service Spring Boot application within Minikube
In my last article I described how two versions of a RESTful Web Service Spring Boot application were used in Minikube, together with an external “Dockerized” MySQL database. In …
Using a RESTful Web Service Spring Boot application in Minikube, together with an external “Dockerized” MySQL database
In a previous article, I talked about an environment, I prepared on my Windows laptop, with a guest Operating System, Docker and Minikube available within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance. …
Rapidly spinning up a VM with Ubuntu, Docker and Minikube (using the –vm-driver=none option) on my Windows laptop using Vagrant and Oracle VirtualBox
For training and demo purposes, on my Windows laptop, I needed an environment with a guest Operating System, Docker and Minikube available within an Oracle VirtualBox appliance. In this …
Minikube on Windows. Hyper-V vs Vagrant/VirtualBox
Kubernetes is a system for running and coordinating containerized applications across a cluster of machines. Minikube runs a single-node Kubernetes cluster and can be used for local development. In …
Running Kafka, KSQL and the Confluent Open Source Platform 4.x using Docker Compose on a Windows machine
For conducting some experiments and preparing several demonstrations I needed a locally running Kafka Cluster (of a recent release) in combination with a KSQL server instance. Additional components from …
Rapidly spinning up a VM with Ubuntu and Docker–on my Windows machine using Vagrant and VirtualBox
I have a Windows laptop. And of course I want to work with Docker containers. Using the Docker Quickstart Terminal is one way of doing so, and to some …
First steps with Docker Checkpoint – to create and restore snapshots of running containers
Docker Containers can be stopped and started again. Changes made to the file system in a running container will survive this deliberate stop and start cycle. Data in memory …
Get going with Project Fn on a remote Kubernetes Cluster from a Windows laptop–using Vagrant, VirtualBox, Docker, Helm and kubectl
The challenge I describe in this article is quite specific. I have a Windows laptop. I have access to a remote Kubernetes cluster (on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure). I want …
Create Debian VM with Docker Host using Vagrant–automatically include Guest Additions
A short and simple article. I needed a Debian VM that I could use as Docker host – to run on my Windows 10 laptop. I resorted to Vagrant. …
Quickly create a Virtualbox development VM with XE DB using Kickstart, Packer, Vagrant
The topic of quickly creating an Oracle development VM is not new. Several years ago Edwin Biemond and Lucas Jellema have written several blogs about this and have given …
Quick and clean start with Java 9–running Docker container in VirtualBox VM on Windows 10 courtesy of Vagrant
The messages from JavaOne 2017 were loud and clear. Some of these: Java 9 is here, the OpenJDK has all previously exclusive commercial features from the Oracle (fka SUN) …
Fastest creation of a Lean VirtualBox VM Image with Oracle Database 11gR2 XE, the Node.JS 7.x and the Oracle DB Driver for Node
For a workshop on Node.js I needed a VM to demonstrate and students try out the Oracle DB Driver for Node. I wanted a lean VM with the bare …
Create and Run Docker Container with Node.js and Node Oracle DB Driver from Windows using Vagrant and VirtualBox
My objective: be able to very quickly run Node.js applications that can connect to an Oracle Database – with minimal disturbance of my laptop environment (Windows 7). The solution …