This post is a continuation of my previous post, where we have gone through a little "Hello World" example using Ansible, an IT automation tool. Last time we had performed SSH remote shell commands. This time, we will go though a little…
Ansible Hello World – Ansible vs. Salt vs. Chef vs. Puppet
This is part 1 of a little Ansible Hello World example, an IT automation tool. The post has the following content: Comparison of the popularity of Ansible, Salt, Chef, and Puppet Installation of Ansible based on Docker Simple Example Playbooks (i.e.…
Java Build Automation Part 1: Create lean executable jar using Maven
Have you ever tried to create an executable jar file, while keeping all configuration files outside of the jar file, accessible to operations folks? Here is a step by step guide. JAR files are java archive files and as such, are not…
Source Code to Docker Image — automated Build
What, if you could release and deploy fully tested and bullet-proof software on a day by day basis? Isn't this a huge effort for hobby developers like me? Even for hobby developers, Docker and its ecosystem promises an easy way to…
Docker CoreOS Cluster in less than 10 Minutes
Install a Docker Cluster in less than 10 Minutes This blog shows, how a Docker CoreOS cluster can be set up in ~10 minutes (dependent on your Internet speed), excluding the time to install Vagrant, Virtualbox and git. In order…
Docker CoreOS Cluster Failover Test in less than 15 Minutes
In this post, I will explore services failover scenarios for docker containers on CoreOS clusters using fleet. A container-based service will be defined and started, and we will explore the service recovery after a failure of one or all cluster nodes (e.g.…
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes
This blog post shows a quick way how to install Kubernetes, a Docker orchestration framework published by Google, as a set of Docker containers. With that you can circumvent the hassle you may run into while trying to install Kubernetes natively.…
