Turn your App into a Marketplace offering.
We know that when it comes to self-service a key thing is to be able to select services you need from a catalog/marketplace. In the Cloud Foundry world, and increasingly in the
Deployment Strategies
A deployment strategy is more and more important as you want to get new features and functionality to your users as quickly and seamlessly as possible. Gone is the day that you can
Desktop Java Selection
While trying to get an application analysis tool working on my laptop I discovered that when I originally set it up it only had Java 12 install when I needed to make use
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
I got the chance to blow off some public talking cobwebs at the Cloud Native Apps Meetup and decided to share some thoughts around how the world has moved on when it comes
PKS force delete
Playing in the lab the today I came across a scenario in which a pks create-cluster failed; pks cluster team Name: team Plan Name: small UUID: 3ef60125-5f93-4b98-b50c-7050b6877fdc Last Action: CREATE Last Action State:
CaaS or PaaS what's all the fuss?
Over the last couple of months I have been playing with Kubernetes (K8s) due to the addition of PKS (Pivotal Container Service) to the PCF offering. The 1st thing that I noticed after
VSTS and Cloud Foundry
A recent conversation got me thinking ..... a prospect has their development pipeline running through Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and we have been discussing Pivotal Cloud Foundry to run workloads. After the initial
As a "Platform Operator" I want a stable platform to deploy tooling.
We all like to make our lives easier in technology with tooling (well most of us do), be that CI/CD/monitoring/scans/git repos, however, how can we deploy these functions in
Why Bosh?
Before I start with "why" Bosh, what is Bosh? It is... an open source tool for release engineering, deployment, life-cycle management and monitoring of distributed systems installs and updates software packages
How quickly can I get a .Net application running?
A very good question - my goal was to get some sort of .Net core application up and running in Cloud Foundry. As part of my development plans I want to increase my
direnv
When I am working on multiple projects for multiple organisations I find myself altering environment variables on the machines I am working on to help me do my job. This up until recently
Bringing `cowsay` into a Cloud Foundry world
Who doesn't love ASCII art and a CLI? One of the early *nix commands that I discovered (well the one that clearly sticks in my mind) was a tool called cowsay, which has