In my earlier article, I wrote about using an AWS S3 as storage for a remote state. The essence of having a remote storage would be to share configuration and resources that are defined in one script with another. This article takes the following use case - To create a…

In my earlier article I talked about running a simple terraform script to create an EC2 instance. While this is not a major achievement the idea is to lay the groundwork for what we are going to do next, that is to automate the setup using Jenkins. Remote State Storage …

Terraform has been a blessing for cloud adoption since the last couple of years. Allied to DevOps, it can be a powerful tool that helps automate the IaC(Infrastructure as Code). …

In my earlier post, I talked about creating a Docker container and then deploying it to a Kubernetes cluster. The application was a simple web application about a JSP. …

I just happened to finish reading the book ‘Kubernetes: Up and Running’. The appendix had an interesting project ‘Building a Raspberry Pi Kubernetes Cluster’ which got me interested. Curious, I set out to build my own! First the parts that I used 3 Raspberry Pi 4 boards (Raspberry Pi 2/3…

In my earlier post we talked about creating a Kubernetes cluster, deploying an NGINX deployment and then exposing as a service. Lets take a step further by actually deploying a customized solution. For that here’s what we are going to do - Create a simple Java Web application that runs…

It would be an understatement to say that Kubernetes has changed DevOps and how we deploy our code. If Docker helped with containerization of what is required for your code to run, Kubernetes took it forward with managing those containers in orchestration and management. While running a Kubernetes cluster would…

Install Apache Tomcat Download the installable for Apache Tomcat from the following location — http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi . We are using the 7.0.42 version for this and it can be downloaded from — http://mirror.cc.columbia.edu/pub/software/apache/tomcat/tomcat-7/v7.0.42/bin/apache-tomcat-7.0.42-windows-x64.zip Extract the archive file and place it in local directory. In our case we have it in the ‘c:\IBM\’ directory.

Preface In my earlier post we went about the task of using Apache Tomcat as the application server that had Jenkins running in it as the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment application and Git as the source code repository. It also did the approval and checked for inline tasks that were…