Open Liberty Open Liberty is a lightweight Jave runtime that supports many modularized features. It is modularized and Docker friendly. It supports the full J2EE 8 Spec including, JNDI, JAX-WS/RS, and Spring Boot. Docker Images There are several variants of Open Liberty Docker containers available on DockerHub. The …

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Using JNDI with Emedded Tomcat Recently I was working on a project where we were migrating an application off of WebSphere and onto Spring Boot. This application used JNDI to store configuration in JNDI. While we were ultimately planning to extract this configuration using Spring Cloud Config Server I felt it …

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Toolkits for Kubernetes K14s k14s Is a suite of tools for managing your Kubernetes environment. Tools in the package ytt kbld kapp imgpkg kapp-controller vendir kwt terraform-provider-k14s #terraform The one tool in the suite that I find indispensable is ytt. This tool allows easy templating of Kubernetes Yaml. This …

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Observing Spring Boot applications with Wavefront. Wavefront is a Software as a Service (SaaS) product that is part of the new Tanzu portfolio of products from VMware. It enables the monitoring of applications. Unlike Prometheus, the database is entirely managed for you. While Prometheus may work well during the …

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Choosing a Base Image Containers, along with orchestration tools such as Kubernetes, are all the rage. Choosing the base image to build your organization's containers introduces a new challenge. The choice of the base container can affect many things, including your security posture and the performance of your …

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This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. The following article is an update to an older post which was based on older versions of Spring/Spring Data Geode.  In this article, you will learn how to complete the following steps. Create …

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Spring Boot Data Geode is a new project aimed at simplifying the use of Geode/Gemfire/PivotalCloudCache. Its primary goal is to extend Spring Boot with auto-configuration support as well as streamline the programmer's experience while working in the spring ecosystem. The project has the following primary goals. Auto …

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This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. One aspect of creating good CI/CD pipelines is the management of passwords and other credentials required for deployment. A typical concourse pipeline will poll for updates in a git repo, do a …

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This article covers about git stash and other related features like apply, pop, show, drop, clear and branching options. This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. Source: Useful tricks you might not know about Git stash – freeCodeCamp

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This page was converted from my old blog and hasn't been reviewed. If you see an error please let me know in the comments. The following article will help the Spring developer complete the following steps. This article has been updated. Latest content is here Create a local GemFire Server for testing. Create a cache …

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