Using Docker for microservice development

Intro

Before we begin, I'd like to clarify: this is not a Yet Another Basic Docker Tutorial. If you need one, just go to the Docker site or use Google as a rich resource of tutorial links. I used the official site to learn it, but these days a lot of talented colleagues made great tutorials. Also you could get a good overview about what is Docker.

The purpose of this post to make a short introduction about Docker as application platform and microservice runtime environment as a starter of the upcoming blog posts.

The microservice architecture is coming closer every day to us and getting recognized not just by some hot startups and innovative companies, but the mature organizations too. We are still learning how to use their benefits as scalability, simpler maintenance and structure. We are also experiencing the increased costs of  microservices as paradigm shift from SOA, orchestration, duplication, increased skill demand on several areas and so on. 

Hosted version of Dockery is available at http://dockery.io/dockery

I totally forgot to release Dockery as hosted web application for simpler access, but from now these days are over. Dockery is available on the dockery.io domain under the link: http://dockery.io/dockery/. Bookmark it quickly and manage your Docker hosts easily with the app.
I believe this is the easiest way to access recent version of Dockery from anywhere, but don't forget: this version is always in beta state :)

Dockery added to the official Docker documentation as client library

I'm proudly announcing: my simple Docker management application Dockery is added to the official Docker documentation as remote api client library. It started as a pet project to learn some Angular basics as a notorious backend developer, but somehow it turned to a fun and my colleague Jens Wlodarczyk convinced me to take it more seriously and popped up the idea to create a Chrome app version too. That wasn't easy for a novice javascript learner, but now it used by other guys around the Earth and I'm getting feedback about what to improve/fix. This is my very first travel into the open source community and I think this is a great source of motivation and gives me extra energy to work on it. The blog of course will focus on different things, but this is a great achievment for me and I'm moved a bit now. Sniffsniffsniff... :)

Pull request build automation for Stash with Jenkins

Intro

Moving toward the frequent releasing is a challenging goal for all organizations. It needs well crafted delivery pipelines, devops mindset to take care about the whole software delivery lifecycle and also needs efficient tooling and methodology from the beginning. The starting point is the definition of a supportive workflow for your SCM. We are using Atlassian Stash as Git server, therefore I looked after for Git based workflows. Click on the links for the detailed description of these workflows, the Atlassian guys made a great job to explain them.