Whenever we talk about Docker maven plugins for java applications, we automatically think of fabric8io maven plugin, which is, honestly, a great plugin. But today, I'm going to talk about a new discovery: Jib, a Maven plugin for building Docker and OCI images for Java applications. Why Jib ?! The project
Worth nothing to mention that monitoring the performance and availability of applications is very important. This is one of the many cool features bundled with Spring boot, which since its first days comes with production ready features (i.e Actuator) to help us keeping an eye on apps performance. With
Lately I've been working with many customers to help them make the migration from the old SVN to git. This obviously not a one shot move and does require time, discipline and learning. I pretty sure that there are some readers wondering how SVN is still used, and the answer
In a previous article, I wrote a small introduction to Actuator in Spring boot 1. With Spring boot 2 now released, Actuator got a new boost with many new features and updates. While it has been redesigned and new edpoints have been added, Actuator kept its fundamental intent, but simplifies
The release of Docker CE 17.05 (EE 17.06) introduced a new feature that helps create thin Docker images by making it possible to divide the image building process into multiple stages, or in short words: multi-stage builds. This feature allows the reuse of artifacts produced in one stage