Articles, notes and random thoughts on Software Development and Technology
I’ve recently been enjoying the freedom of a homelab, creating VMs on VMware ESXi and installing all-the-things. I’ve had my HP Proliant DL380 G7 for a couple of weeks now and already accumulated a number of VMs for investigating a collection of things: 3x CentOS7 VMs running a Kubernetes cluster with a master and 2 …
Unfortunately I wasn’t lucky enough to attend JavaOne 2017 this year, so I’m catching up this evening and watching the recording of the Day 1 Keynote here. A few notes, key quotes and thoughts (screenshots taken from the video): Mark Cavage, Vice President of software development, Oracle: The next decade: Java first, open, evolving, nimble, …
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Following the instructions to install the Openshift Origin binary from here, on first attempt to start it up I got this error: failed to run Kubelet: failed to create kubelet: misconfiguration: kubelet cgroup driver: “systemd” is different from docker cgroup driver: “cgroupfs” Per instructions in this issue ticket, to verify which cgroup drivers docker is …
I’ve spent a bunch of time playing with apps in single containers up until now and reached the point where I started to think about questions like: “ok, so how is this done if you have an application with multiple services, where you may need to scale individual services but not others?” and “how does an …
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