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(Outdated) Run a Docker image as a Cloud Foundry App on IBM Cloud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(outdated) COVID19 communication starter kit for the Call for Code challenge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(outdated) A Node-RED Twitter-follower-flow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(outdated) A short introduction of the Node-RED Starter kit on IBM Cloud for Hackathons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 →
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 →
