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(Outdated) Run a Docker image as a Cloud Foundry App on IBM Cloud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(outdated) COVID19 communication starter kit for the Call for Code challenge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(outdated) A Node-RED Twitter-follower-flow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(outdated) A short introduction of the Node-RED Starter kit on IBM Cloud for Hackathons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