IBM provides a nice workshop that demonstrates how to modernize legacy WebSphere applications with Liberty. The workshop explains how to deploy applications on OpenShift. This article describes how to run Liberty applications locally. (more…)
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Deploying Serverless Quarkus Applications
Quarkus is a Kubernetes native Java stack crafted from the best of breed Java libraries and standards. Since Quarkus applications start very fast and consume little memory, they are well suited for serverless workloads. (more…)
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Multistage Dockerfiles for Quarkus
New Quarkus applications can be created in several ways, for example via CLI or the Start Coding page. Since applications are usually run in containers, Dockerfiles are created automatically. However they assume, that the code has already been built. This article describes how to build the code and the image together. (more…)
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Running legacy Java Applications locally
I've been working on app modernization recently and had to get some older Java EE applications to work. In order to do this, I've used containers which was much faster than configuring my machine for the different environments. (more…)
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Application Modernization Resources on IBM Developer
In this short blog I list resources IBM provides around the topic 'Application Modernization' which is a topic that gets more and more important for companies as part of their journey to the cloud and their digital transformation strategy. (more…)
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Deploying Quarkus Apps on OpenShift without local Setup
This article explains how to deploy Quarkus applications on OpenShift as quickly as possible. All you need is an OpenShift cluster with enough memory. Everything else can be done in the browser. (more…)
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Workshops: Reactive Apps with Quarkus and OpenShift
In the context of cloud-native applications the topic 'reactive' becomes more and more important, since more efficient applications can be built and user experiences can be improved. If you want to learn more about reactive functionality in Java applications, read on and try out the sample application and the two new workshops. (more…)
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Deploying MicroProfile Microservices with Tekton
This article describes Tekton, an open-source framework for creating CI/CD systems, and explains how to deploy microservices built with Eclipse MicroProfile on Kubernetes and OpenShift. (more…)
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Recording of Jakarta Tech Talk ‘How to develop Microservices’
Yesterday I presented in a Jakarta Tech Talk 'How to develop your first cloud-native Applications with Java'. Below is the recording and the slides. (more…)
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How to develop Open Liberty Microservices on OpenShift
Open Liberty is a flexible Java application server. It comes with Eclipse MicroProfile which is a set of tools and APIs to build microservices. With these technologies I have created a simple hello world microservice which can be used as template for your own microservices. In this article I describe how to deploy it to OpenShift. (more…)
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