In that blog post I want to highlight the cool topic: How to create a python application instance in minutes on IBM Cloud, using public Cloud Foundry. This could be useful in a Hackathon with Hackers who are new to IBM Cloud. Therefore I made a short 5 min YouTube video. Here is the link... Continue Reading →
How to setup the reactive Cloud Native Starter sample application on OpenShift in IBM Cloud
In this blog post I want to point out that I just created a 5 min YouTube video related to the great Hands-on workshop: Reactive Endpoints with Quarkus on OpenShift. In that short video I show the setup of the example application to show reactive programming. The image below shows the major architecture of the... Continue Reading →
Get started with GitBook and GitHub a small guide
In this blog post I want to point out the great documentation topic GitBook. The first time I noticed GitBook, was in a hands-on workshop, when I asked the presenters how they create and update their good looking workshop documentation. I directly tried out the free GitBook version for one of my GitHub projects and... Continue Reading →
A small, but useful change in the IBM Cloud CLI for Kubernetes
This blog post is about a very small, but useful change in the IBM Cloud CLI for Kubernetes clusters. You no longer need to export and set the KUBECONFIG environment variable to access your Kubernetes cluster on IBM Cloud in a terminal session. ( IBM Cloud documentation ). You just can execute following IBM Cloud... Continue Reading →
(Outdated) Run a Docker image as a Cloud Foundry App on IBM Cloud
In that blog post I want to point out an awesome topic: "Run a Docker container image as a Cloud Foundry App on IBM Cloud" Rainer Hochecker, Simon Moser and I had an interesting exchange about running a Docker image as a Cloud Foundry App on IBM Cloud. The advantage with that approach is: you... Continue Reading →
(outdated) COVID19 communication starter kit for the Call for Code challenge
In this blog post I want to point out the awesome COVID19 communication starter kit for the Call for Code challenge. I created a small YouTube Video series following a COVID19 starter kit tutorial with the objective to show and talk: "More about the how and not so much about the why". I selected... Continue Reading →
error: no matches forkind “Deployment”in version “apps/v1beta1”
This is a short blog post about changes in the new Kubernetes deployment definition. In my older blog posts related to Kubernetes you will find older deployment definitions, these definitions will cause errors during the Kubernetes deployment. Here are the two major problems you maybe will notice: 1. If you get the following error error:... Continue Reading →
(outdated) A Node-RED Twitter-follower-flow
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 →
