Creating a CICD setup for home use
Often when I am working at home, I wish I had a CICD setup similar to the one at my customers. Developing code without a continues integration platform feels like…
Barry van Acker
23 september, 2018
Creating an artifact repository
In order to build our CICD platform, we will start with the creation of an artifact repository. The artifact repository can be used in various locations in the pipelines, has…
Barry van Acker
23 september, 2018
Ubuntu 18.04 – No WiFi adapter found
Skip to the final bit for the answer when you are in dire need of Internet on your new Ubuntu 18.04 installation. One of the latest trends in the laptop…
Dirk Janssen
16 september, 2018
HelloBeer’s first Camel ride
HelloBeerTM recently got some complaints from the Alcoholics Anonymous community. As it turns out, it’s very difficult to order a fine collection of craft beers online without ones wife finding…
Roger Goossens
10 september, 2018
How to use multiple resources definitions in the Serverless Framework
In other Serverless projects we use a single resource definition to include AWS CloudFormation scripts in our build/deploy. Where the resource file contained component definitions like DDBTable: in the root….
Jan van Zoggel
7 september, 2018
Example AWS CloudFormation template for network load balancer
We needed a public network load balancer with SSL (through AWS Certificate Manager) and took me some retry’s to get it right since most examples are based upon the classic…
Jan van Zoggel
29 augustus, 2018
Part 3 – Enter ReactiveX
In my previous post I showed you how to call Rest APIs using the vertx Webclient. Now the end code looked a bit messy with a lot of “if then…
Dirk Janssen
28 augustus, 2018
How to share values between seperated AWS CloudFormation stacks
In AWS CloudFormation templates you often have the need to make a reference to an earlier created component. For instance the unique ID of a vpc, subnet, security group or instance. You…
Jan van Zoggel
28 augustus, 2018
Using CloudFormation to bootstrap EC2 instances with scripts from CodeCommit
While spinning up EC2 instances you can bootstrap them with packages, files, etc in different ways. For our stack we wanted to pull scripts from an AWS CodeCommit to make…
Jan van Zoggel
26 augustus, 2018
AWS CloudFormation error “The parameter groupName cannot be used with the parameter subnet”
When trying to start some EC2 instance through CloudFormation I kept getting the error “The parameter groupName cannot be used with the parameter subnet”. The (YAML) AWS CloudFormation looks something…
Jan van Zoggel
15 augustus, 2018
How to install Azure CLI on MacOS
The Azure CLI 2.0 is Microsoft’s command line interface for managing Azure resources. First install the CLI through brew brew update && brew install azure-cli Then run the login command…
Jan van Zoggel
6 augustus, 2018
Using Nexus OSS as a proxy/cache for Docker images
When working in a corporate environment, whether it is a commercial or non-commercial party, you’ll find restrictions apply to accessing the internet. Very often, the servers hosted in such an…
Maarten Tijhof
23 juli, 2018
Part 2 Calling another API
Now that we have create a restful interface in part 1 we can start adding some logic to the API. First, we need some data, we need to know at…
Dirk Janssen
18 juli, 2018
Use WS-Addressing to invoke a SOAP Web Service in TIBCO ActiveMatrix BusinessWorks 6 (BW6)
Introduction First a short background about WS-Addressing (Web Service Addressing, WS-A). WS-Addressing is a transport mechanism to address messages for web service. It defines header elements (To, Action, MessageID) to…
Pieter Leguijt
6 juli, 2018
How to connect to the CEPH Object Gateway S3 API with Java
We use a CEPH storage solution and specifically want to use the Ceph Object Gateway with the S3 API through a Java client. The API is based on the AWS…
Jan van Zoggel
3 juli, 2018
JHipster – Making things a little less hip
Just like a good old Belgian beer can make for a nice change of pace after you’ve filled up on all those crafty IPAs and Stouts, it’s not always necessary…
Roger Goossens
18 juni, 2018
Jarvis Pizzeria: Business Reports & Dashboards
Within the workspace there are some out of the box dashboards that you can use to monitor your instance. When you go to My Tasks and click Dashboard, by default…
Marc Kuijpers
30 mei, 2018
JHipster – Streaming beer with Kafka and Spring Cloud Stream
Now that our OrderService is up and running, it’s time to make it a little more robust and decoupled. In this blog post we’re gonna put Kafka in between the…
Roger Goossens
25 mei, 2018
JHipster – Adding some service
In our last blog post we focused on the Angular side of the generated application. This blog post is all about the Spring Boot server side part. In this post…
Roger Goossens
13 mei, 2018
Jarvis Pizzeria: Aborting a Structured Process in a Dynamic Process context
In this blog we will take a look at the way a dynamic process deals with a process that ends with an exception. We will implement this in our “Register…
Marc Kuijpers
18 april, 2018