Monthly Archives: March 2022

GitLab and Docker-in-docker

Posted on March 17, 2022 by John Woodward

I am, without a doubt, a rank amateur at the usage of Docker. I’ve been learning a lot the last few days, and one solution to an issue we had is worth sharing. We like to use Avast’s gradle docker … Continue reading →

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Gitlab – Using Kaniko to Build/Push Image to Google Cloud Registry (GCR)

Posted on March 17, 2022 by John Woodward

We were faced with difficulties getting a build image constructed, and then pushed to Google Cloud Repository (GCR) from GitLab. In setting this help, with a great deal of help from a coworker, I learned a lot about Docker, and … Continue reading →

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MockRestServiceServer and null bodies …

Posted on March 8, 2022 by John Woodward

We ran into this little issue, and it’s not obvious what’s wrong and how to fix it, but this solution takes care of it. When creating tests using MockRestServiceServer, if you want to return a json body (or any body), … Continue reading →

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Caffeine Cache in Spring Boot

Posted on March 8, 2022 by John Woodward

We recently implemented some caching in a Spring Boot application, and to do so we used Caffeine. We used several different ways of expiring data in the cache, which is worth documenting here for future reference. Simple Expire Entire Cache … Continue reading →

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