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Kubernetes: volumeMount, emptyDir, and env equivalents during local Docker development


Categories: Containers, Kubernetes

Kubernetes has a rich way of expressing volumes/ volumeMounts for mounting files, emptyDir for ephemeral directories, and env/envFrom for adding environment variables to your container definition running on a Kubernetes cluster. However, if you are actively iterating on the development of an image, it may slow you down to require a deployment to a remote … Kubernetes: volumeMount, emptyDir, and env equivalents during local Docker development

CloudFoundry: The lifecycle of a simple BOSH release


Categories: Virtualization

BOSH is a project that unifies release, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud based software. Software to be deployed via BOSH is called a release, and in this article I will use a very simple release to illustrate how to create, deploy, version, and revert these releases.

CloudFoundry: Deploy Cloud Foundry locally using BOSH Lite on Ubuntu


Categories: Containers, Virtualization

Update Jan 2019: Now using CredHub instead of ‘–vars-store’ (which will be deprecated in CF 3) Even if you are developing a service or application that will ultimately be deployed to a private Cloud Foundry instance, having a local CF instance for development work is still an ideal development workflow. There is a local CF … CloudFoundry: Deploy Cloud Foundry locally using BOSH Lite on Ubuntu

CloudFoundry: Exploring Cloud Foundry using the spring-music application


Categories: Containers

Cloud Foundry is an opinionated Platform-as-a-Service that allows you to manage applications at scale.  It supports multiple infrastructure platforms (EC2, VMware, OpenStack), and is able to standardize deployment, logging,  scaling, and routing in a way that is friendly to a continuous delivery pipeline. In this series of articles, we will use the spring-music web application … CloudFoundry: Exploring Cloud Foundry using the spring-music application

CloudFoundry: PCF Dev 0.28 for local development on Ubuntu


Categories: Containers

Update Jan 2019: The latest PCF Dev 2.x releases only support Windows/Mac and not Linux.  This article describes the older v0.28 PCF Dev is a distribution of Cloud Foundry that has a minimal footprint and is designed to run locally on a developer’s machine.  Using this lightweight distribution of Cloud Foundry, a developer can debug … CloudFoundry: PCF Dev 0.28 for local development on Ubuntu

Maven: Installing a 3rd party jar to a local or remote repository


Categories: DevOps, Java

Especially in enterprise application development, there can be 3rd party dependencies that are not available in public Maven repositories.  These may be internal, business specific libraries or licensed libraries that have limitations on usage. When this is the case, you can either publish to a private Maven repository that controls authorization or you can put … Maven: Installing a 3rd party jar to a local or remote repository