Month: December 2015

Jenkbird – Continuous Integration with Jenkins Tutorial – Part 1

~ Marc Stauffer
Bad days happen to everyone, but when one happens to you, just keep doing your best and never let a bad day make you feel bad about yourself.”
— Big Bird about a day with deployment problems

Jenkbird

“Continuous Integration” (CI) and “Continuous Delivery” (CD) are topics every modern software developer should have heard of or at least is pretending to be. But working on student projects you rarely take time to set up a clean environment to integrate, test and deploy your code or trigger any of those tasks automatically. Sometimes you don’t even try to run your code on a real server. Or you might try to deploy your final project at 23:59 o’clock before the submission… GOD BLESS there are automation tools for that nowadays!

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Docker- dive into its foundations

~ Benjamin Binder

Docker has gained a lot of attention over the past several years. But not only because of its cool logo or it being the top buzzword of managers, but also because of its useful features. We talked about Docker quite a bit without really understanding why it’s so great to use. So we decided to take a closer look on how Docker actually works.

In this article, we want to shed some light on a few technologies used by Docker enabling it to be so lightweight and fast in startup compared to “traditional” virtual machines (VMs). Docker itself serves us as an example, you could replace it with any other container technology, for example LXC.

Reading this article requires some profound knowledge of virtualization. Terms like “guest system” or “hypervisor” should ring a bell. Also you should have heard of an operating system called Linux (it is probably running on your smartphone and you are waiting for an update).

So let’s go!

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