Category: Couchbase Server
Kubernetes Monitoring with Heapster, InfluxDB and Grafana
Kubernetes provides detailed insights about resource usage in the cluster. This is enabled by using Heapster, cAdvisor, InfluxDB and Grafana. Heapster is installed as a cluster-wide pod. It gathers monitoring and events data for all pods on each node by talking to the Kubelet. Kubelet...
Serverless FaaS With AWS Lambda and Java
What is a Serverless Architecture? Serverless architecture runs custom code in ephemeral containers that are fully managed by a 3rd party. The custom code is typically a small part of a complete application. It is also called as function. This gives another name...
Multimaster Kubernetes Cluster on Amazon Using Kops
Getting Started with Kubernetes 1.4 using Spring Boot and Couchbase explains how to get started with Kubernetes 1.4 on Amazon Web Services. A Couchbase service is created in the cluster and a Spring Boot application stores a JSON document in the database. It uses...
Docker for AWS – Getting Started Video
Want to create a highly-available Docker cluster on Amazon Web Services? Run multi-container applications on it using Docker Services? Docker for AWS allows you to exactly do that! This video shows: Create a highly-available Docker cluster on Amazon Web Services (0:00) Check configuration (5:43) Use...
Couchbase Cluster on Mesos with DC/OS
Apache Mesos is an open source cluster manager developed at UC Berkeley. It provides resource isolation and sharing across distributed applications. Mesos consists of a master daemon that manages slave daemons running on each cluster node.Mesos frameworks are applications that runs on...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...