Docker and Swarm Mode – Part 3

Posted on October 5, 2016 by Gabriel Schenker

Refresher In part 1 we have created a swarm of 5 nodes of which we defined 3 to be master nodes and the remaining ones worker nodes. Then we deployed the open source version of the Docker Registry v2 in … Continue reading →

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Use Docker to build, test and push your Artifacts

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Gabriel Schenker

Sue is a software engineer at BetterSoft. She is in charge of starting a new project which includes building up the CI/CD pipeline for the new application her team will create. The company has established some standards and she knows … Continue reading →

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Bulk Delete Queues in AWS

Posted on September 26, 2016 by Gabriel Schenker

This is a post to myself. Due to a faulty application we have a lot of dead queues in AWS SQS. To get rid of them I wrote the following script that I executed in a container that has the … Continue reading →

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Easing the use of the AWS CLI

Posted on September 21, 2016 by Gabriel Schenker

This post talks about a little welcome time-saver and how we achieved it by using Docker. In our company we work a lot with AWS and since we automate everything we use the AWS CLI. To make the usage of … Continue reading →

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Docker and Swarm Mode – Part 2

Posted on September 11, 2016 by Gabriel Schenker

In part 1 of this post series about Docker SwarmKit I showed how we can quickly create a cluster of nodes (VMs) using VirtualBox and configure a Docker Swarm on this nodes. I then showed how we can run a … Continue reading →

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Docker and Swarm Mode – Part 1

Posted on September 5, 2016 by Gabriel Schenker

In the following few posts I am going to demonstrate how we can use the new SwarmKit that is part of Docker 1.12 to manage a cluster of nodes (VMs) as a Docker Swarm. To not depend on any cloud … Continue reading →

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Pimp my report with Docker

Posted on August 31, 2016 by Gabriel Schenker

Introduction We are testing our Web portal with fully automated end-2-end tests against various combinations of Browsers and platforms. Today I had a task assigned which required to improve the quality of our Sauce Labs test failure reports on Bamboo. … Continue reading →

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Exploring TypeScript

Posted on August 30, 2016 by Derek Greer

A proposal to use TypeScript was recently made within my development team, so I’ve taken a bit of time to investigate the platform.  This article reflects my thoughts and conclusions on where the platform is at this point.   TypeScript: … Continue reading →

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Containers – An Index

Posted on August 26, 2016 by Gabriel Schenker

In this post I will provide a list of all container related posts that I wrote so far and will write in the future. Thank you dear reader for your interest. Table of Content Use Docker to build, test and … Continue reading →

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Git on Windows: Whence Cometh Configuration

Posted on August 22, 2016 by Derek Greer

I recently went through the process of setting up a new development environment on Windows which included installing Git for Windows. At one point in the course of tweaking my environment, I found myself trying to determine which config file … Continue reading →

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