Apache Kafka + Spring Boot: Hello, microservices
this post, we will write an application on Spring Boot 2 using Apache Kafka under Linux, from installing the JRE to a working microservice application. Colleagues from the front-end development department who saw the article complain that I am not explaining what Apache Kafka and…
Setting up a CD via gitlab
Once I thought about automating the deployment of my project. gitlab.com kindly provides all the tools for this, and of course I decided to use it by sorting out and writing a small deployment script. In this article, I share my experience with the community….
CI / CD using Jenkins on Kubernetes
Here are already several articles on our website about jenkins, ci / cd and kubernetes, but in this I don’t want to concentrate on analyzing the capabilities of these technologies, but check their simplest configuration for building the ci / cd pipeline. I hope that…
GitLab Shell Runner. Competitive launch of test services using Docker Compose
This article will be interesting for both testers and developers, but it is aimed more at automations who are faced with the problem of configuring GitLab CI / CD for integration testing in conditions of insufficient infrastructure resources and / or lack of a container…
Reducing the size of a docker image with a spring boot application
Recently, we faced the task of launching spring boot 2 applications in a kubernetes cluster using a docker image. This problem is not new, quickly enough we found examples in Google and prepared our application. We were very surprised not to find the alpine image…
How We Found a Cool Way to Link Business and DevOps
The DevOps philosophy, about development and software maintenance, will not surprise anyone. A new trend is gaining strength – DevOps 2.0 or BizDevOps. In it, three components merge into a single whole: business, development and support. And as DevOps engineering practices come form the basis…
What or who is DevOps?
In the life of every successful project, comes a moment when the number of servers begins to increase rapidly. The server with the application needs to cope with the load and you have to put into operation several more servers and a balancer in front…
How to reduce costs and provide optimal IT support for a business model. Types of business analysis
Static analysis of applications Business logic and process logic are implemented using source code and related software structures and libraries. However, often the source code is a „spaghetti code” without a clear structure, which negatively affects the recognition and change of business logic. Natural Engineer,…
How to reduce costs and provide optimal IT support for a business model. Part 1
Achieving a balance between cost savings and optimal business model support remains one of the key challenges for many IT departments. They also need to figure out how to adapt the amount of IT support to the needs of the business model and at the…
How to forget about MS Word. Implemantation of Confluence
To implement Confluence, we choose two specialists from the technical writer’s department who studied and tested the capabilities of the tool. For continuous technical support, the system administrator’s department assigned us one specialist. He quickly responded to technical problems and helped to understand the basic…