Month: January 2017
Windows Server 2016 Using VirtualBox – Getting Ready for Docker
Windows Server 2016 was announced a few weeks ago. I recommend you download the Windows 2016 Server Evaluation version. This blog is the first part of a multi-part series. The first part will show how to install Windows Server 2016...
Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
January 6, 2017
Persisting Couchbase Data Across Container Restarts
Best Practices for Virtualized Platforms provide best practices for running Couchbase on a virtualized platform like Amazon Web Services and Azure. In addition, it also provide some recommendations for running it as Docker container. One of the recommendations is to map Couchbase...
Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
January 6, 2017
Docker on Windows 2016 Server
This blog is the first part of a multi-part series. The first part showed how to set up Windows Server 2016 as a VirtualBox VM. This second part will show how to configure Docker on Windows 2016 VM. Start an elevated PowerShell...
Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
January 6, 2017
Docker Service and Swarm Mode to Create Couchbase Cluster
Docker 1.12 introduced Services. A replicated, distributed and load balanced service can be easily created using docker service create command. A “desired state” of the application, such as run 3 containers of Couchbase, is provided and the self-healing Docker engine ensures...
Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
January 6, 2017
Deployment Pipeline using Docker, Jenkins, Java and Couchbase
This blog explains how to create a Deployment Pipeline using Jenkins and Docker for a Java application talking to a database. Jenkins support the creation of pipelines. They are built with simple text scripts that use a Pipeline DSL (domain-specific language) based...
Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
January 6, 2017
Getting Started with Kubernetes 1.4 using Spring Boot and Couchbase
Kubernetes 1.4 was released earlier this week. Read the blog announcement and CHANGELOG. There are quite a few new features in this release but the key ones that I’m excited about are: Install Kubernetes using kubeadm command. This is in addition to...
Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
January 6, 2017
Minikube – Rapid Dev & Testing for Kubernetes
One of the attendees from Kubernetes for Java Developers training suggested to try minikube for simplified Kubernetes dev and testing. This blog will show how to get started with minikube using a simple Java application. Minikube starts a single node Kubernetes cluster on your local machine for...
Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
January 6, 2017
Docker, Minecraft, Rx Java, CI/CD, Couchbase at JavaOne 2016
JavaOne 2016 Session Catalog is now live! There are 400+ sessions from Sep 17 (Saturday) through Sep 22 (Thursday). Here are some of the places where you’ll find me: Day/Date Time Title Co-speaker Saturday, Sep 17 8am – 5pm JavaOne4Kids Several Sunday, Sep 18 10:30am...
Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
January 6, 2017
Docker Services, Stack and Distributed Application Bundle
First Release Candidate of Docker 1.12 was announced over two weeks ago. Several new features are planned for this release. This blog will show how to create a Distributed Application Bundle from Docker Compose and deploy it as Docker Stack in...
Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
January 6, 2017
Docker-native CI/CD with Codeship Webinar – Part 1
Laura (@rhein_wein) and I are Docker Captains. This means we demonstrate a commitment to sharing our Docker knowledge with others. Amongst other languages, she talks Ruby and Postgres and I talk Java and Couchbase. But we talk to each other using...
Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
January 6, 2017
Getting Started with Docker for AWS and Scaling Nodes
This blog will explain how to get started with Docker for AWS and deploy a multi-host Swarm cluster on Amazon. Many thanks to @friism for helping me debug through the basics! boot2docker -> Docker Machine -> Docker for Mac Are you packaging your applications...
Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
January 6, 2017
Docker Daemon Log With Docker for Mac
Did you know that Docker for Mac is now in general beta? What is Docker for Mac? Docker for Mac is a native Mac application architected from scratch, with a native user interface and auto-update capability, deeply integrated with OS...
Arun Gupta, VP, Developer Advocacy, Couchbase
January 6, 2017