DevOps and CI/CD Resources

What Is DevOps?

If you don't understand how DevOps works, think of it as the DevOps trinity; people, process, and tools. Read on to learn more about each of these layers.

September 17, 2017

by Brian Dawson

· 6,670 Views · 9 Likes

Gracefully Shutting Down Java in Containers

Let's look at some lessons learned about gracefully shutting down Java programs in the worlds of Docker, Kubernetes, and enterprise integration.

September 15, 2017

by Janaka Bandara

· 36,637 Views · 13 Likes

.NET Core vs .NET Framework: How to Pick a .NET Runtime for an Application

So you're looking to build a .NET-based application but with .NET Core now floating around you're not sure which .NET runtime you should be using. In this post, we take a look at the various options and compare them to help you make that decision.

September 13, 2017

by Angela Stringfellow

· 13,595 Views · 16 Likes

Setting Up a Mobile Automation Project in macOS With Katalon Studio

This tutorial will teach you how to design automated tests for both your iOS mobile applications with Katalon Studio.

September 10, 2017

by Oliver Howard

· 8,401 Views · 15 Likes

An Introduction to Continuous Integration and Workflows

Learn about the benefits of continuous integration in the software development lifecycle, and how to achieve it using Jenkins and Maven plugins.

September 7, 2017

by Rekha Sree

· 15,510 Views · 5 Likes

Enabling Centralized Logging

Learn to build a centralized logging system using Splunk and ELK that can gather multiple application logs into a single service.

September 7, 2017

by Randhir Singh

· 69,874 Views · 22 Likes

Asynchronous Microservices With Vert.x

Read about the advantages of Vert.x and see how to use it for asynchronous microservices and service discovery with this tutorial.

September 6, 2017

by Piotr Mińkowski

· 21,848 Views · 11 Likes

A Service Mesh For Kubernetes Part XI: Egress

We've seen how Linkerd can serve as an ingress to a Kubernetes cluster, but it can also serve as an egress as well. Here's how to configure it.

September 6, 2017

by Alex Leong

· 5,625 Views · 4 Likes

Deploying a PHP App to Cloud Foundry

Deploying PHP apps to Cloud Foundry is simple, but fairly involved. Here are the steps to use Cloud Foundry or Bluemix's CLIs for the task.

September 6, 2017

by Rob Allen

· 5,525 Views · 3 Likes

The Skinny on Fat, Thin, Hollow, and Uber

Here's just about everything you could want to know about your favorite packaging techniques for Java—skinny JARs, fat/uber JARs, thin JARS, and hollow JARs.

September 5, 2017

by James Falkner

· 41,294 Views · 10 Likes

Git: To Squash or Not to Squash?

Take a quick look at the benefits and downsides to squashing all the commits on a given feature branch to just one commit.

September 4, 2017

by Steven Schwenke

· 25,334 Views · 5 Likes

How to Run a Docker Container on Your Local Machine

This quick walkthrough will show you how to dockerize and run an Angular2 app in a container on your local machine, with frequently used Docker commands.

September 4, 2017

by Suleyman Yildirim

· 175,378 Views · 4 Likes

What Is javax.ws.rs.core.context? (Part 4)? [Snippets]

Continuing with our journey of the @Context annotation, let's see how you can inject Servlet request and response classes into your Java EE projects.

September 1, 2017

by Alex Theedom

· 8,071 Views · 5 Likes

Deploying and Running MySQL on Kubernetes With Statefulsets and Kops

Learn how to use Portworx on an AWS Kubernetes cluster using kops to bootstrap the cluster, with a focus on running a MySQL server and dealing with a failover scenario.

September 1, 2017

by Kai Davenport

· 19,849 Views · 2 Likes

A Kubernetes Service Mesh (Part 9): gRPC for Fun and Profit

Learn how to use Linkerd with gRPC, opening new doors for load balancing, service discovery, circuit breaking, and tracing logic.

September 1, 2017

by Alex Leong

· 5,485 Views · 3 Likes

Why Release Management Is Critical For Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Success

This post explores how an enterprise relying on older software can deliver continued innovation with multi-speed IT using a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe).

August 31, 2017

by Dalibor Siroky

· 15,759 Views · 2 Likes