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 →
No code changes needed to secure your application on Kubernetes
In that blog post I want to highlight how I did my first configuration of the App Identity and Access Adapter for Istio Mixer in my Cloud Native Starter system on a free IBM Cloud Kubernetes cluster. In my last blog post I described how I did the installation of the App Identity and Access Adapter.... Continue Reading →
Install the App Identity and Access Adapter on a free IBM Cloud Kubernetes Cluster
In that blog post I want to highlight that I started to integrate the open source App Identity and Access Adapter for Istio Mixer into our open source Cloud Native Starter sample that uses the free IBM Cloud Kubernetes cluster setup with a manual Istio installation. The cool thing from my perspective of the App... Continue Reading →
Be aware of “opentracinqZipkin”, when you update to “MicroProfile 3.0” using “OpenTracing” with “OpenLiberty”
Today, just a very short note. You should be aware of opentracinqZipkin when you use MicroProfile OpenTracing with OpenLiberty, because I noticed with the update to MicroProfile 3.0 I had a problem with usr:opentracinqZipkin-0.31. I created an issue on OpenLiberty. "MicroProfile 2.1 includes mpOpenTracing-1.2. MicroProfile 3.0 includes mpOpenTracing-1.3. Please make sure you are using the... Continue Reading →
A small source code update, when you use MicroProfile Health
I just want to highlight a small change for the MicroProfile Health, because I noticed with the update to MicroProfile 3.0 that the annotation @Health is deprecated. It took me a little bit, because it was still listed in the MicroProfile documentation . But I figured out in the blog post from Philip Riecks , when you... Continue Reading →
Create one Java Microservice with OpenLiberty and MicroProfile – made for beginners
Today I created a YouTube video, where I developed one Microservice. The level of content of that video is for beginners. The video was "live" recorded and I made some minimal editing and the video takes 18 min. The recoding is related to Java Microservices with MicroProfile and OpenLiberty in Visual Studio Code . The source code is available in... Continue Reading →
Being @codemotion 2019 in Berlin
I was as part of the great IBM Developer team at the codemotion in Berlin. We did so many contribution at codemotion that I would like to share the main topics and some personal impressions with you. The Conference and location The codemotion is a two days multi track tech developer conference and had this year 1200 attendees.... Continue Reading →
