S-RAMP needs you and you need S-RAMP

The OASIS SOA-Repository Artifact Model and Protocol specification S-RAMP v 1.0 has been out for a little over a year now and on jboss.org the Artificer project has reached compliance to the 1.0 spec. Some cool features the Artificer project has implemented using S-RAMP are Artifact, metadata, and information repository (publish and consume) Software lifecycle management and workflows Impact anal…

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API Management on Kubernetes

I just returned from the London MicroServices Architecture Developer Day. Attendence was really great and the tickets actually sold out. Here is nice writeup if you missed it. Marc Savy and yours truly presented API Management on Kubernetes. If you want to follow along you need to deploy the ElasticSearch app, the Fabric8-HTTP-Gateway app and the APIMan app - in that order. If all goes well the A…

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My Fabric8 VM is running out of diskspace!

The default Ubuntu image has a dynamically sized 40 GB harddrive. You may find that if you are working with Docker images, that this space fills up quickly. Before you start download the GParted iso. 1. Resize the vmdk file VirtualBox cannot resize a vmdk file. Instead you will need to change over to use the vdi format, then resize (to 100 GB) and finally create vmdk formatted clone of this. Make…

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Import Firefox password into OSX keychain

There is a Firefox plugin that will ask you if you want to store your passwords into your keychain called keychain services integration. This can come in handy if you use both firefox and safari.…

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Getting started with Fabric8 and OpenShift v3 on OSX

The full fabric8 docs can be found here. Here I took the relavant sections applicable to running on OSX, and I added some notes. OpenShift v3 relies on Docker for its container management. OSX does not support Docker natively. The recommended way is to use vagrant to create a VM with the correct Docker configuration. 1. Prerequisites Install whatever the newest version is of the following: Docker…

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