Hashicorp Nomad with Consul service discovery

With my previous post I demonstrated how simple it is to connect services through Nomad’s service discovery support. I promised to follow-up showing this with Consul providing the service registry and use Consul’s service discovery. Le’s look into the service stanza documentation. Continue reading

Hashicorp Nomad service discovery

With the recently released Nomad 1.3 a service registry backed by Nomad was added. This is making building complex services dependent on others really easy. Earlier we typically would have added Hashicorp Consul as service registry. In a production environment that would have meant to a add a Consul cluster running along with the Nomad cluster. Continue reading

Introduction to Hashicorp Nomad

In the past 2 years I successfully architected and developed a new product for a customer and brought it to production. This product uses Hashicorp’s job scheduler Nomad for managing workload. Nomad is an excellent alternative to Kubernetes. It is known for its simplicity in regard to usage and maintainability and allows to schedule containerized and non-containerized applications. Continue reading

Google Container Tools - Jib

With this post we close the series of articles taking a deep dive on building Docker images. We look at a building Docker images for running Java applications in a Docker container with Jib which is part of the Google Container Tools. Continue reading

Docker BuildKit

In the previous blog post of the building docker images series we had a look at Docker image build pipelines. We revealed typical problems and looked at how to overcome some by utilizing multistage builds. In part 4 of this series we work with an addition to the Docker tooling which is BuildKit. Continue reading

Docker image build pipeline

Let’s recap what we have covered in this blog post series so far. In Building a Docker Image we had a look at the anatomy of a Docker image. And Optimizing a Docker Image shed some light on optimizations when building an image. Continue reading

Optimizing a Docker Image

This post continues where we left off with Building a Docker Image. We are looking into how we can optimize the process of building a Docker image. This optimization can aim at reducing the size of images built or the time it takes for packaging an image. Continue reading