A couple of weeks ago, my team leader dropped a book on my desk. “Read it.”, he said. So I started reading The Phoenix Project: A Novel about It, Devops, and Helping Your Business Win written by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr and George Spafford. Now that I have finished my first reading of the book, I wanted to share some thoughts about it.
Category: DevOps
Setup Jenkins CI in 30 Minutes
Do you want to experiment with Jenkins CI in a local setup? In this post we will setup a local Jenkins CI server, create a build job for a simple Spring Boot Maven project and push the created Docker image to DockerHub. It will be a setup for local experimenting only, but really handy if you want to try out a Jenkins plugin for example.
Git LFS: Why and how to use
Although Git is well known as Version Control System nowadays, the usage of Git LFS (Large File Storage) is often unknown to Git users. In this post I will try to explain why and when Git LFS should be used and how to use it. The source code of this post can be found at GitHub.
How to version your software
I often receive questions about software versioning. Although it seems something trivial and simple, when people start thinking about it, several questions pop up: How can we uniquely identify our software? Which versioning scheme should we use for our software? Which version of the software is delivered to our test or production system? … With this post I hope to give some answers to these questions and provide some of the choices you have.
Versions Maven Plugin
Encounter difficulties keeping your dependencies and plugins up-to-date into your Maven POM file? The Versions Maven Plugin is a Maven plugin which provides you the information of which libraries could be updated. In this post some of my experiences with the plugin. Continue reading “Versions Maven Plugin”
Combine git repositories
Sometimes, you make a mistake and you start with a lot of git repositories that actually belong to each other and are dependent of each other. You are stuck with these git repositories and you want to combine them into one git repository. But, you don’t want to lose your git history. I suggest, in order to avoid these problems, to start with one git repository when you do not have good reasons to split an application into more repositories. It is easier to split repositories than to combine them and working with one git repository makes the administration a lot easier. However, if you are stuck with too many repositories and want to get rid of them, the guide below will help you. Continue reading “Combine git repositories”
