This article is the beginning of our Elastic Stack article series, that explains the Elastic Stack for Beginners and curious people. I use football data as the basis for our demonstrations and examples for three reasons. The first reason is that the football (soccer) season starts again this weekend. I live in the city of the current Swiss Football champion (Bsc Young Boys). I want them to succeed again this season. The final reason is my little nephew. On my summer vacation visit, my nephew asked me what I do for a living in Switzerland: Software Engineering and Architecture for Distributed…

This article describes how to deploy pods (applications) on the desired node or nodes. OpenShift uses K8S (Kubernetes) to do that, so we will also cover the K8S basics about that.

Have you ever wondered why IntelliJ can't resolve properties in your application.properties or application.yml? Short answer: you'll need an annotation processor in your classpath.

Do you know how to download the latest version of a Java Application from a JFrog Artifactory repository? This blog post gives you one solution. To work it requires at least the Artifactory Pro version. The Artifactory API enables us to search for last modified items/artifacts.

With cloud platforms such as Cloud Foundry more and more teams move from a development-only team to a DevOps-enabled team. The aim in doing so is in continuously improving the application development lifecycle by moving fast from idea to production. Though, with development and operations efforts that need to get done some teams have less operations experience and neglect some important operational aspects. This blog post comprises a basic checklist that teams can go along and decide for themselves whether they want to increase efforts for a specific topic. Personally, I believe that any real…