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post icon Cloudogu EcoSystem documentation (docs)

07/28/2021 Philipp Ahrendt in EcoSystem

Cloudogu EcoSystem documentation (docs)

The principle of good software is to present as many complex relationships as possible in an easily understandable way. Thus, our Cloudogu EcoSystem (CES) looks pretty simple even though it hides extensive operations under the surface. Nevertheless, the CES provides a surprising number of user interfaces. Even though we observe usability conventions to the best of our ability, yet some functionality requires explanation. Therefore, we decided to build a comprehensive, public documentation and guide as docs.cloudogu.com.

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post icon DevOps Basics (2/2): Phases and Processes

02/23/2021 Christopher Hablitzel in EcoSystem

DevOps Basics (2/2): Phases and Processes

DevOps combines previously assigned tasks and roles at a company on the basis of agile working methods, automation and cross-functional cooperation in order to create a common basis for value creation. This post describes the phases and processes of this so-calles “DevOps life cycle“.

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post icon DevOps Basics (1/2): Advantages & Best Practices

12/16/2020 Christopher Hablitzel in EcoSystem

DevOps Basics (1/2): Advantages & Best Practices

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.

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post icon Advantages of a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

11/26/2020 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

Advantages of a Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure

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.

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post icon Backup and Restore with Cloudogu EcoSystem

08/27/2020 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

Backup and Restore with Cloudogu 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.

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post icon IT compliance in practice – correctly containing and deleting data and projects in B2B software development

04/07/2020 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

IT compliance in practice – correctly containing and deleting data and projects in B2B software development

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.

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post icon Docs As Code – Continuous Delivery of Presentations with reveal.js and Jenkins – Part 2

02/11/2020 Johannes Schnatterer in EcoSystem

Docs As Code – Continuous Delivery of Presentations with reveal.js and Jenkins – Part 2

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.

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post icon Docs As Code – Continuous Delivery of Presentations with reveal.js and Jenkins – Part 1

09/05/2019 Johannes Schnatterer in EcoSystem

Docs As Code – Continuous Delivery of Presentations with reveal.js and Jenkins – Part 1

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.

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post icon Minimize administration effort

07/30/2019 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

Minimize administration effort

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.

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post icon Why operating multiple CES instances can make sense

02/22/2019 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

Why operating multiple CES instances can make sense

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.

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post icon Update for the Git Wiki

11/23/2018 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

Update for the Git Wiki

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«.

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post icon Private Software Development Cloud

06/06/2018 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

Private Software Development Cloud

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.

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post icon The Smart Wiki that Lives with the Code

05/10/2018 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

The Smart Wiki that Lives with the Code

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.

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post icon Source Code Management with SCM-Manager

03/30/2017 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

Source Code Management with SCM-Manager

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.

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post icon Artifact management with Nexus Repository

05/28/2015 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

Artifact management with Nexus Repository

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.

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post icon Static Code Analysis with SonarQube

03/06/2015 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

Static Code Analysis with SonarQube

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.

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post icon Group Permissions in SCM-Manager Universe

12/22/2014 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

Group Permissions in SCM-Manager Universe

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.

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post icon Continuous Integration Server Jenkins

07/22/2013 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

Continuous Integration Server Jenkins

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.

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post icon SourceCode Management for Git, Subversion and Mercurial

04/17/2013 Daniel Huchthausen in EcoSystem

SourceCode Management for Git, Subversion and Mercurial

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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