Containers

Use mu to manage microservice databases in the continuous delivery pipeline Read more…

My friend and colleague, Stephen Goncher and I got to spend some real time recently implementing a continuous integration and continuous delivery pipeline using only Ruby. We were successful in developing a new module in our pipeline gem that handles many of the docker engine needs without having to skimp out on testing and code Read more…

Automation testing is crucial to the success of a continuous delivery pipeline. This post demonstrates the use of mu to add tests to a pipeline. Read more…

A containerized Jenkins setup, with all the tools ready to go, is super useful for the DevOps developer. Jenkins makes it easy to parameterize and manage jobs, and so running numerous tests in parallel is efficient and profitable. Docker allows us to containerize such an environment. This blog post defines an all-in-one Jenkins container for use in DevOps Read more…

The mu tool makes it simple and cost-efficient for developers to use AWS as the platform for running their microservices. Read more…

Docker Swarm Mode is the latest entrant in a large field of container orchestration systems. Docker Swarm was originally released as a standalone product that ran master and agent containers on a cluster of servers to orchestrate the deployment of containers. This changed with the release of Docker 1.12 in July of 2016. Docker Swarm Read more…

Deploying SpringBoot microservices into ECS with CloudFormation Read more…

In this blog post, we will cover developing nix packages and testing them in docker.  We will set up a container with the proper environment to build nix packages, and then we will test build existing packages from the nixpkgs repo.  This lays the foundation for using docker to test your own nix packages. First, a quick introduction Read more…

In this first post of a series exploring containerized CI solutions, I’m going to be addressing the CI tool with the largest market share in the space: Jenkins. Whether you’re already running Jenkins in a more traditional virtualized or bare metal environment, or if you’re using another CI tool entirely, I hope to show you Read more…

In this episode, we cover recent DevOps in AWS news and speak about the AWS EC2 Container Service (ECS), EC2 Container Register (ECR), HashiCorp Consul, AWS CodePipeline, and other tools to provide solutions for customers Read more…