12/16/2020 Christopher Hablitzel in EcoSystem
Shortly after you first start learning about DevOps, it becomes clear that there is no single clear definition of the term. It is not, as is often assumed, a tool or a programming language. Rather, to put it in a nutshell, it is a collection of procedures, practices, and methods to deliver **new** software features **faster**. The aim is therefore to shorten the time from the idea phase to publication in order to create satisfied customers.
Read more11/26/2020 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
ince companies have very different requirements when it comes to data security, maintenance costs, security, legal compliance, etc., various cloud models have been developed. A basic distinction is made among “public”, “private” and “hybrid” cloud architectures.
Read more08/27/2020 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
With the Cloudogu EcoSystem you can easily and efficiently create backups for your entire toolchain, without any additional work. The backup and restore Dogu secures the data of your tools and allows you to easily restore it in case you need to.
Read more04/07/2020 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
Since compliance is about adhering to regulations of any kind, this is very complex and individual issue. That's why this post will be dealing with a very specific topic: the deletion of data when the contract ends. In B2B software development, it is customary for contracts to contain a clause on the delivery or destruction of all records and documents related to the project.
Read more02/11/2020 Johannes Schnatterer in EcoSystem
The first part of this series demonstrated the use cases and benefits of delivering presentations with reveal.js. They are Docs As Code, and therefore they can be subjected to versioning management and of course delivered via Continuous Delivery. Furthermore, we demonstrate how the Jenkins pipelines can be used to deploy to GitHub Pages using a model concrete implementation. This article demonstrates additional alternatives for deployment (Sonatype Nexus and Kubernetes), while the general structure of the `Jenkinsfile` remains the same.
Read more09/05/2019 Johannes Schnatterer in EcoSystem
Reveal.js allows software developers to use web technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) to deploy slides for presentations and to display them in the browser. This eliminates the dreaded mouse-driven excursion into the world of PowerPoint/Impress, with its incompatibilities between Microsoft Office, Libre/OpenOffice, problems with Linux, and exclusive access requirements to make editing changes.
Read more07/30/2019 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
It is curious that in the field of software development, in which developers create something new every day, the "never change a running system" approach is very widely followed when it comes to the underlying toolchain. Downtime is too expensive, whether something goes wrong when updating an important system and the developers are unable to work for some period of time or if even the most recent work status is lost. This post compares the required effort for the installation and the operation of a toolchain for three different scenarios.
Read more02/22/2019 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
Cloudogu EcoSystem is an extremely efficient way to operate a software development infrastructure. Nevertheless, there are scenarios where it might make sense to separate projects into individual instances of the Cloudogu EcoSystem.
Read more11/23/2018 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
Not long ago, we released a new version of our wiki » Smeagol«. The differences might seem to be a lot on the outside, but you could say that we changed almost everything » under the hood«.
Read more06/06/2018 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
Due to the recent announcement of the acquisition of GitHub by Microsoft and the (sometimes very emotional) discussions about possible ramifications, it becomes obvious that people, teams or companies use services like GitHub for many different reasons. That is because they all have different prerequisites and requirements. GitHub hosts code for 100% Open Source developers as well as for companies with private repositories only and everything in between.
Read more05/10/2018 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
In software development it is crucial to share information; no matter what kind of information. Whether it is about technical or functions details or about requirements; good knowledge management helps you to focus on your work and to prevent mistakes. Probably you know this first hand: it is easy to start documenting something, but the difficult part is to keep it consistent, in a central location and up to date. Once a project has been running for some time you often spend quite some time to search folders for some specific document or you create new documents, because you didn’t know there was already a similar one.
Read more05/03/2017 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
You had a great idea for a software product and you want to see it being developed as fast as possible, you want to concentrate on bringing it to life. Focus on what really matters! Find out what exactly the market needs by gathering feedback and head into the right direction. For that you need to be flexible and quick in your workflows and you don’t want to be distracted by administrative tasks that keep you from developing your product. That is why you should take a look at out-of-the-box software development ecosystems, they might exactly be what you need to kick start your startup.
Read more03/30/2017 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
Over the years we talked a lot about SCM-Manager, but we never officially introduced it as one of the Cloudogu EcoSystem. Since SCM-Manager had its 6th anniversary not long ago, we want to catch up on that.We mentioned SCM-Manager the first time about 4 years ago, when the current version was 1.28. These days version 1.52 was released. That is reason enough to give an update on SCM-Manager, to sum up the changes and improvements that were made in the meantime.
Read more07/20/2015 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
In software development there is no such thing as the holy grail, no perfect process that you can follow in each project and that ensures that everything works out smoothly. But there are tons of very helpful best practices that you can use as a guideline. One of the principles of SCM-Manager Universe is that you can adapt it to different software development processes, because it isn't designed specifically for one process. To give you a better understanding of how you can use SCM-Manager Universe, we want to show you how we configured the appliance for one of our projects.
Read more05/28/2015 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
Nexus Repository is a repository manager that serves as a central point for managing binary software components and their dependencies. In Cloudogu EcoSystem we use Nexus in combination with Apache Maven to manage dependencies.
Read more03/06/2015 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
An easy way to implement continuous code inspection to software development projects is by using SonarQube. It offers various code inspection rules for a large number of programming languages. The application can be connected to continuous integration servers like Jenkins, Hudson, Gerrit, Bamboo or TeamCity via plugins. It provides you with a dashboard that tells you about the code quality of your projects. SonarQube is installed and ready to use on Cloudogu EcoSystem.
Read more12/22/2014 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
Depending on your team size, project structure and requirements, it can be very useful to grant permissions on the basis on groups, not for single users. Using user groups can save a lot of time when setting up a new project, or when a new member joins a team. Therefore we want to show you how you can implement your own groups in SCM-Manager Universe.
Read more07/22/2013 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
We would like to present Jenkins, a continuous integration tool that is part of the Cloudogu EcoSystem (CES). We will introduce Jenkins and continuous integration in general and special circumstances of Jenkins as part of the CES.
Read more04/17/2013 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem
Do you strive for something smart and efficient to manage source code? You are excited about the great tool, SCM-Manager, but you are not an expert in source code management yet? We will explain you, how to get started with SCM-Manager step by step.
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