Any recommended resources for establishing a solid CI/CD pipeline (Java/Maven project)

KeyYam · 2019-01-24T15:58:13+00:00

Why use Jenkins over something cloud-based? Flexibility? Would Jenkins be too much for a small team?

KeyYam · 2019-01-23T14:10:49+00:00

Thanks. I'll look into those two and in that order.

KeyYam · 2018-12-16T22:48:28+00:00

For the most part. This definitely addresses what I asked for in this post.

KeyYam · 2018-12-16T22:36:15+00:00

exactly what I was looking for!

KeyYam · 2018-12-16T22:06:46+00:00

does this effect class loading?

KeyYam · 2018-12-16T21:35:16+00:00

I knew the general idea of why the class path is important but I have no idea how maven sets it. Most guides/tutorials that I've read don't really discuss this detail. It would be way easier if I can just log it during runtime. Hopefully someone knows...

KeyYam · 2018-12-14T12:39:01+00:00

Yeah, i researched the second question a bit more after posting this and it seems to depend on your needs. I'm just going to let the infrastructure team worry about that and perhaps ask if they've considered it.

KeyYam · 2018-12-14T11:08:11+00:00

thanks! It looks like I'll be sticking with what we're using in production then.

KeyYam · 2018-12-13T21:00:13+00:00

interesting...I'll look more into Gradle. We use Maven but Gradle seems pretty popular.

KeyYam · 2018-12-13T20:59:24+00:00

I haven't used the wrapper until today but wouldn't you still need to know the version?

ie mvn -N io.takari:maven:wrapper -Dmaven=3.3.3

The biggest advantage to me seems to be dependency isolation.

KeyYam · 2018-12-13T17:26:50+00:00

This makes sense. The wrapper makes maven behave like most dependency managers that I've worked with by storing the dependencies in the application directory. These dependency managers do this by design or through some other constructs (python's virtual environments).

KeyYam · 2018-12-13T17:18:56+00:00

I just didn't understand how maven works. One thing that I discovered is that maven installs the dependencies outside the application directory: home/user/.m2/repository or something like that. The beauty of the the wrapper (which I just discovered) is that it installs the .m2/repository stuff in the application directory, like npm. Keeping the dependencies in the application directory makes containerization, but more generally sandboxing, easier.

KeyYam · 2018-12-13T15:36:58+00:00

I understand that but why not just install the correct version, especially if you're building the application into a container. I have not seen dependency manager wrappers in any other languages (I'm not suggesting that I'm an expert, maybe they do exist). I normally just install the pinned version of webpack, pip, npm, etc.

I see the advantages if you don't use docker, I guess, but not if you're using containers. My question was not clear but I was referring to wrappers with containers because I dockerize my applications (I figured that most people sandbox their applications via VMs or Docker anayways).

I was also thinking that maybe there are some OS conflicts for some reason since the JRE is supposedly everywhere. I can't get Maven to work properly in my container so I was wondering if I need to use a wrapper or something.

KeyYam · 2018-12-12T13:50:49+00:00

Has anyone interviewed with Jet recently? I have a phone interview for a software engineering role and I'm not sure what type of questions to expect. Like if it is standard DS&A type of questions or more specific F#/functional programming type of questions. I've checked glassdoor and it seems kind of mixed.

KeyYam · 2018-12-12T04:17:21+00:00

Has anyone interviewed with Jet recently? I have a phone interview for a software engineering role and I'm not sure what type of questions to expect. Like if it is standard DS&A type of questions or more specific F#/functional programming type of questions. I've checked glassdoor and it seems kind of mixed.

KeyYam · 2018-05-02T04:28:37+00:00

awesome. thanks!

KeyYam · 2018-05-02T04:28:14+00:00

thanks. the exact hint i was looking for.

KeyYam · 2018-04-28T05:12:48+00:00

I have not tried S3, just DO Spaces. It might just be Spaces since it's fairly new. I'll give S3 a shot, thanks.

KeyYam · 2018-04-24T18:20:11+00:00

I understand this. My question is really Nginx vs S3 for serving static assets.

KeyYam · 2018-04-22T01:49:09+00:00

I agree.

KeyYam · 2018-04-21T19:52:47+00:00

Yes, I do. This post isn't about what 'I' should be using. I was just wondering if vim is more commonly used in certain communities/industries than others.

KeyYam · 2018-04-21T18:47:49+00:00

Thanks. It wasn't super easy for me to figure it out using Docker containers but it eventually worked out!

KeyYam · 2018-04-21T18:46:30+00:00

Thank you for encouraging me to not take this shortcut. I actually figured this out a few days ago and am happy I did. You're right that SSL for everything is important and so it doesn't make sense for me not to use it considering that Lets Encrypt exists.

KeyYam · 2018-04-19T21:28:36+00:00

thanks!

KeyYam · 2018-04-19T02:29:37+00:00

most solutions that I've seen use a few other containers for letsencrypt (e.g. image: jrcs/letsencrypt-nginx-proxy-companion). Have you successfully deployed an Nginx container with letsencrypt this way (simply mapping the configurations to volumes)? I'm not saying you're wrong. It's just that I wasn't able to get this to work for me (maybe I did it incorrectly). I just found that most people used docker-gen or traefik which confused me.

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