In my last blog post I did an introduction to "how use the starter kit for Node-RED on IBM Cloud" and in this new blog post I want to highlight the Node-RED Twitter-follower-flow I developed as an introduction to different topics I frequently face at hackathons. Here is the link to the "Twitter-follower-flow" GitHub project.... Continue Reading →
(outdated) A short introduction of the Node-RED Starter kit on IBM Cloud for Hackathons
In that blog post I want to highlight the new way of the instantiation of a Node-RED application on IBM Cloud with the Node-RED Starter kit. From my perspective Node-RED is a very helpful tool at hackathons. (just take a look in my blog post How to prepare for a Hackathon with IBM Cloud?) The... Continue Reading →
Write and execute a JUnit test for a Java microservice based on MicroProfile and run both in the OpenLiberty development mode
This blog post has the focus on: how to develop a JUnit test for the Authors microservice from the Cloud Native Starter example and run both the Authors microservice and the JUnit test on OpenLiberty in the development mode. That blog post hasn't the objective to be a blueprint or a 'how to guide' for... Continue Reading →
Run a MicroProfile Microservice on OpenLiberty in a Remote development container in Visual Studio Code
In this blog post I want to show, how to setup a local remote Java development container for Eclipse MicroProfile with OpenLiberty in Visual Studio Code. I did that for the Authors microservice from the Cloud Native Starter project with MicroProfile 3.2, OpenJDK Java 11, and the latest OpenLiberty version. That blog post is structured... Continue Reading →
Docker container in detached and attached mode
This is a very short blog post about the usage of a Docker container in detached and attached mode. Some times participants in workshops want to reconnect to a docker container, because they closed their terminal session with the container which was in an interactive mode and they want to reconnect to their exiting container... Continue Reading →
Automated deployment of a microservice to Kubernetes on IBM Cloud
In that blog post I want to point out the awesome topic, how to automate the deployment of a Microservice using a delivery pipeline on IBM Cloud. Maybe you already know Niklas, Harald and I made the great project called Cloud Native Starter. That project includes a Hands-on workshop that is called “Build a Java... Continue Reading →
Deploy the Reactive Cloud Native Starter example to IBM Cloud
The Cloud Native Starter project now contains the new great topic, the development of Reactive Microservices with Java, quarkus, MicroProfile and Vue.js as front-end. The Reactive example implementation runs on minikube, local OpenShift and on IBM Cloud Kubernetes. Here are the instructions on GitHub. But what does reactive mean? Here is an extract of the... Continue Reading →
How to develop a customized Dockerfile using minikube
In this blog post I want to share an awesome and simple practice for beginners: How to develop a customized Dockerfile for a container image running on Kubernetes, using minikube. Usually, when you use an existing container image to create your own customized configuration, you don't have deep knowledge how that container image is built,... Continue Reading →
Deploy WordPress on a free IBM Cloud Kubernetes Cluster for non-productive usage
In this blog post I just want to highlight an awesome guideline I noticed on GitHub: How to deploy WordPress to a free IBM Cloud Kubernetes Cluster for non-productive usage? Why do I say "non-productive"? Because of the free IBM Cloud Kubernetes Cluster , which will be deleted after 30 days. Surely you can also... Continue Reading →
Central management of billing and resource usage tracking across multiple accounts in IBM Cloud
In this blog post I want to shortly highlight the topic central management of billing and resource usage tracking across multiple accounts. I think it is good to know that topic, even if you will currently not use it. I didn't use IBM Cloud Enterprise until now, but is great to know that this is... Continue Reading →
