Blue-Green Deployment To Docker Swarm with Jenkins Workflow Plugin

The idea behind this article is to explore ways to deploy releases with Jenkins to Docker Swarm without downtime. We’ll…

Read More »

Deploying Containers with Docker Swarm and Docker Networking

The purpose of this article is to explore new Docker networking features introduced in version 1.9. We’ll apply them to…

Read More »

Microservices: The Essential Practices

Before we jump and try to explore the practices we must master in order to successfully implement microservices architecture, let…

Read More »

Microservices: When the Stars Aligned

In The History of Failed Initiatives I mentioned that microservices as a concept existed for a long time. And yet,…

Read More »

Docker Clustering Tools Compared: Kubernetes vs Docker Swarm

Kubernetes and Docker Swarm are probably two most commonly used tools to deploy containers inside a cluster. Both are created…

Read More »

GitHub vs GitLabs vs BitBucket Server (Formerly Stash)

This article will try to compare GitHub, GitLab and BitBucket Server (previously called Stash) installed on your own servers. Similar…

Read More »

The History of Failed Initiatives

I worked with many different clients. From small greenfield projects all the way to big ones in sectors like automotive,…

Read More »

Service Discovery: Zookeeper vs etcd vs Consul

The more services we have, the bigger the chance for a conflict to occur if we are using predefined ports.…

Read More »

Configuration Management in the Docker World

Anyone managing more than a few servers can confirm that doing such a task manually is a waste of time…

Read More »