Have you ever tried to run any message broker on Kubernetes? KubeMQ is a relatively new solution and is not as popular as competitive tools like RabbitMQ, Kafka, or ActiveMQ.…
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Category: Containers
Guide To Micronaut Kubernetes
Micronaut provides a library that eases the development of applications deployed on Kubernetes or on a local single-node cluster like Minikube. The project Micronaut Kubernetes is relatively new in the…
Spring Cloud Kubernetes For Hybrid Microservices Architecture
You might use Spring Cloud Kubernetes to build applications running both inside and outside a Kubernetes cluster. The only problem with starting an example application outside Kubernetes is that there…
Microservices With Spring Cloud Kubernetes
Spring Cloud and Kubernetes are the popular products applicable to various different use cases. However, when it comes to microservices architecture they are sometimes described as competitive solutions. They are…
Part 1: Testing Kafka Microservices With Micronaut
I have already described how to build microservices architecture entirely based on message-driven communication through Apache Kafka in one of my previous articles Kafka In Microservices With Micronaut. As you…
Deploying Spring Boot Application on OpenShift with Dekorate
More advanced deployments to Kubernetes or OpenShift are a bit troublesome for developers. In comparison to Kubernetes OpenShift provides S2I (Source-2-Image) mechanism, which may help reduce the time required for…
Continuous Delivery with OpenShift and Jenkins: A/B Testing
One of the reasons you could decide to use OpenShift instead of some other containerized platforms (for example Kubernetes) is out-of-the-box support for continuous delivery pipelines. Without proper tools, the…
Elasticsearch with Spring Boot
Elasticsearch is a full-text search engine especially designed for working with large data sets. Following this description, it is a natural choice to use it for storing and searching application…
Microservices Integration Tests with Hoverfly and Testcontainers
Building good integration tests of a system consisting of several microservices may be quite a challenge. Today I’m going to show you how to use such tools like Hoverfly and…
Testing Spring Boot Integration with Vault and Postgres using Testcontainers Framework
I have already written many articles, where I was using Docker containers for running some third-party solutions integrated with my sample applications. Building integration tests for such applications may not…