Introduction
This is the second post in my series about the service catalog. If you haven’t done already please read the first post: service catalog: introduction.
In this second post I’ll create from scratch a spring boot application that exposes a JPA crud via rest. This application will use a service catalog managed microsoft sql server database and I will demonstrate how you can automagically connect to it using the service catalog connector.
The spring cloud connector
There is a spring cloud project called spring cloud connectors. This project is all about connecting to cloud managed services. I have been working on an implementation specific to the service catalog. The idea is that you can use the service catalog to manage the services and use the service catalog connector to transparently connect to it.
Overview
This is the first of a series of posts around the service catalog. The end goal is to demonstrate how the service catalog can simplify building apps on kubernetes and openshift.
The first part will cover:
- why
- how to install
- how to use
The target environment will be openshift 3.10 on Linux using `oc cluster up` for development purposes.
Introduction
Working with kubernetes since its early days, there are countless of times where I had to go into creating manifests for the services my application is using. By services I am referring to things like databases, messaging systems, or any other pieces of third party software my application might need.