Nicolas Meunier specializes in cloud solutions and has more than 20 years of experience in IT web technologies and development, including CI/CD, Kubernetes, Docker, Jenkins-X, and Azure DevOps. Prior to dbi services, he developed and maintained a CI/CD pipeline at CEGID in Paris and worked as Lead Developer at KPMG. He holds a superior technical diploma in IT development. His background covers software and cloud platform architecture.
Containerizing a Node.js application is easy, but doing it well is another story. To create images that are efficient, secure, and consistent across environments, you need to make the right choices in your build strategy, dependency management, and base image selection. In this article, I’ll walk you through practical tips to containerize your Node.js applications properly. Multi-stage build or not…
Introduction In this article, I will explain how I containerized my Vuetify + Vue 3 application with GitLab CI/CD. My goal was to deploy my application on Kubernetes. To achieve this, I need to: Quick overview: overall, the full project uses a micro-service architecture and runs on Kubernetes. The Vue 3 project only contains the UI, and we containerize it…
In my previous article I generated a Rest NestJS API using AI. Today, I will create a small UI to authenticate users via the API. I will use this simple case to show the limits of coding with AI and what you need to be attentive to. I will create my interface with Vue 3 and Vuetify still using the…
In this article, I will try to evaluate the benefits of AI on a development project and what concrete changes it makes to our development practices. The test case and the approach I chose a familiar environment for my comparison: a new NestJS project from scratch. For my project, I want to: To help me, I’m going to use the…
The 4th and 5th december, I attended KCD Suisse Romande in Geneva. It was a great event in a great place with great people. I really enjoyed the talks and the workshops. First Day: the workshops After a meeting at the entrance of the CERN, we went to attend the workshops: 20000 issues sous les mers – Moving Like a…
When developing a modern web application, it’s common to use a frontend (Vue, React) that communicates with a backend (Nest.js) via REST APIs. Often, the two projects live in parallel, requiring them to be run in development mode. Without specific configuration, API calls between the frontend and backend will be blocked. In my case, with a frontend in Vue 3…
Building multi-architecture images become more and more useful. Indeed, many recent computers use ARM processors architecture. Examples include MacBooks using M(x) processors, and Amazon EC2 instances using AWS Graviton processors. However, the diversification of processor architectures adds a new level of complexity to the creation of container images. Indeed, the construction has to cope with different instruction sets. Docker buildx,…
In addition to my previous articles Add a UI to explore the Feathers.js API and Add authentication in a Feathers.js REST API, today, I will explain how to manage Feathers.js authentication in Swagger UI and make it simple for our users. After enabling authentication on API methods, as a result, using Swagger UI for testing is difficult, if not impossible.…
Following on from my previous articles: Create REST API from your database in minute with Feathers.js, and Add a UI to explore the Feathers.js API, today I want to add authentication in my Feathers.js REST API. Creation, update and delete operations will be authenticated, while read will remain public. First step: add authentication to my application I’m using the code…
Following on from my previous article: Create REST API from your database in minute with Feathers.js, today I want to add a UI to explore the Feathers.js API. When we provide an API, it’s common to make a tool available to explore the exposed methods.Swagger UI is one such tool, and fortunately, in the Feathers.js ecosystem, a package is available…
Creating REST APIs is a fairly repetitive task. You’re always rewriting the Create, Read, Update, Delete methods…In my search for a framework capable of generating a REST API, I discovered Feathers, a simple and useful framework for Node.js. In this article, we’ll show you how to create a REST API from a PostgreSQL database in just a few minutes. Introduction…
The original mistake In preparation of the GitLab essentials workshop, I’m using helm to deploy it. After a few tests, I wanted to clean up my cluster, and accidentally deleted the namespace before doing helm uninstall. As a result, the namespace got stuck in the “terminating” state… Troubleshooting Now the namespace is stuck, but why ? However, no resources seem…
