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 of Java 11. I have never really needed to concern myself with this sort of thing in the past so sprung to Google (and to save me …

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 to automation and what that means to the size of operations teams! Thinking about pizza size teams I immediately thought of …

Playing in the lab the today I came across a scenario in which a pks create-cluster failed; 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 pks cluster team Name: team Plan Name: small UUID: 3ef60125-5f93-4b98-b50c-7050b6877fdc Last Action: CREATE Last Action State: failed Last Action Description: Instance provisioning …

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 using PAS (Pivotal Application Service) for 18 months is that with K8s you have to do more things to get you …

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 meeting two things sprung to mind; * I need to get a better …

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 a way that makes our lives easier? If you ask this same question to a group of architects/engineer you will get a long list …

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 on large numbers of VMs over many Iaas providers, with the absolute …

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 skills in programming in languages like .Net and Java. While I have started to learn .Net using a number of tutorials (I’m lucky …

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 has been a manual process and I often tell people how I’m lazy so look for ways to be more efficient. I …

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 its origins back in the late 90’s. cowsay is not a particularly useful tool however when embarking on learning how to create …