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Jenkins: Creating a custom pipeline step in your library

Pipelines in Jenkins, especially the declarative kind, can be very powerful and expressive at the same time. As a caveat, it is also very easy to get overly verbose by…

Maarten Tijhof
15 april, 2019

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One VM to Rule them All

Why GraalVM is currently one of the hottest Java topics In 2013, Oracle labs came with a scientific article named “One VM to Rule Them All”. In this article they…

Dirk Janssen
12 april, 2019

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Jenkins: Using Gradle to build your Shared Library

Being able to test your Jenkins pipeline Shared Library code, and therefore minimising the risk of pushing new pipelines or functionality to your Production instance, is vital for organisations using…

Maarten Tijhof
8 april, 2019

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Jenkins: Setting up a Shared Library for your pipelines

When you’re using a system with multiple teams/users, there is always a trade off between having a shared codebase and the ability to override certain parts for a specific need….

Maarten Tijhof
1 april, 2019

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Redirect users when updating your 3scale Developer Portal

Did you ever wonder how to tell your 3scale Developer Portal visitors that it needs to be taken offline for updates, backups or maintenance? In a few simple steps and…

Edwin de Kler
31 maart, 2019

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3scale policy development – part 2 generate a policy scaffold

In first part of our multi-part blog series about 3scale policy development we looked into the setup of a development environment. Now we have a functioning development environment we can…

Pim Gaemers
22 maart, 2019

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Getting a File from the resource directory

In every project that I start I’m always fussing with getting a file from the classpath when testing some code. For example, when I have to get an XML file…

Dirk Janssen
18 maart, 2019

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Installing Openshift Origin (OKD) on AWS – part 3: scale up your brewery!

In the previous two sessions of this blog series we’ve created an AWS instance and used Ansible to install a single Openshift OKD node. As scalability is one of the…

Robert Jan de Groot
13 maart, 2019

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GraalVM – Native Images – Getting Started

GraalVM is the hype in the Java world. It is a so called ‘Universal Virtual Machine’ that allows you to run all kinds of languages native on any host system….

Thomas Janssen
13 maart, 2019

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GraalVM Native Images – getting started (part 1)

GraalVM is the hype in the Java world. It is a so called ‘Universal Virtual Machine’ that allows you to run all kinds of languages native on any host system….

Thomas Janssen
13 maart, 2019

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Kerberos with camel-hdfs2

Recently I had to connect to a Hadoop cluster with Camel. If you do a quick search you will see a nice hdfs2 component that you can use. Obviously I…

Dirk Janssen
1 maart, 2019

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3scale policy development – part 1 setting up a development environment

3scale policy development – part 1 setting up a development environment In this multi part blog series we are going to dive into the development, testing and deployment of a…

Pim Gaemers
1 maart, 2019

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Delivering crafts in containers – HelloBeer merges with TerraX Micro-Brewery Inc

Alright, the owners of HelloBeerTM have rested on their laurels for quite some time now. All their profits have been spent on the finer things in life. Time to get…

Roger Goossens
27 februari, 2019

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Installing Openshift Origin (OKD) on AWS – part 2: How to make a beerdecision

In this blog series we’re installing Openshift Community Edition (known as OKD, I don’t get it either) on AWS instances based on Centos. In the previous blog post, we’ve set…

Robert Jan de Groot
13 februari, 2019

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Installing Openshift Origin (OKD) on AWS – part 1

Openshift is gaining in popularity, judged by the increasing number of large companies considering Openshift Enterprise as their new container platform. Even though Red Hat offers Openshift as a cloud…

Robert Jan de Groot
4 februari, 2019

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How to combine Azure AD SSO with AWS programmatic access ?

Since we both use Azure AD (Office365 / LDAP) for the companies user management and AWS for our hosting we already enabled federation between these cloud providers. This works perfectly…

Jan van Zoggel
1 februari, 2019

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A Tale of Castles & Towers

By now, we can safely say the hype surrounding microservices has died down and microservices are here to stay. When you read about microservices you might get the impression they…

Coert van den Thillart
8 januari, 2019

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MyST: How to get a CLI model from MyST Studio

The work horse for provisioning OFMW domains with MyST Studio is the MyST Agent. When there is something to be executed on hosts, it is the MyST Agent performing that…

Maarten Tijhof
31 december, 2018

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MyST: Diving deep into the product

Sometimes, you need to dig a little deeper into the product you’re working with in order to solve an issue you are facing, or to find out more about how…

Maarten Tijhof
24 december, 2018

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MyST: Setting EJB transaction timeouts on SOA/BPM domain

Working with the Oracle SOA Suite or Oracle BPM Suite sometimes necessitates setting timeout settings to get all components of your solution to play along nicely. Not all timeout settings…

Maarten Tijhof
17 december, 2018