Infinispan on tour, March-April 2019

Infinispan has been on tour!!

 I - Katia Aresti - had the chance to present 3 talks in 3 different conferences and countries during the last month:

Breizh Camp 2019 the 22th March, Rennes (France)

Greach Conf 2019, 29th March, Madrid (Spain)

Voxxed Days Milano 2019, 13th April, Milan (Italy)

Breizh Camp

2019 has been BreizhCamp's 9th - Code Busters - edition and they sold-out the conference in a matter of hours (wow).

I did not have the time to attend any talk. Unfortunately, due to my personal schedule, I arrived on Thursday night, and I was presenting on Friday after lunch. This was the second time I was giving this presentation, but I did lot's of changes since the first time, including:

• Big upgrades to my presentation look and feel 
• Harry-Potterize my Vert.x Clustered + Infinispan Embedded. An original demo containing more examples of Vert.x and Infinispan can be found here.
• Creating and live-coding an Infinispan Client/Server + Quarkus Demo
• Using Infinispan Operator to create an Infinispan Cluster in Openshift 4

Breizh Camp Code Busters Edition, Photo credit @BreizhCamp 2019

On Friday morning I was stressed and I ran my presentation at the hotel. I arrived at the venue, delivered my talk and headed back to Paris. I deeply regretted not spending more time hanging out with other speakers and attendees, but I really couldn't make it this time :(

Greach Conf

Greach Conf is a lovely conference held in Madrid (Spain) for several years now. A 100% international conference, it has been organized by the Groovy community. 

This year they have changed the conference lineup adding an Android/Testing track and focusing on a bigger spectrum of technologies around the JVM.

Greach Conf 2019. Photo credit José Miguel Rodríguez

I learned a bunch of new things, including content related to SDKMan!, Gradle, the future of Grails and of course, Micronaut. As the principal maintainer of Spring-Boot and Infinispan integration, Micronaut felt new and familiar at the same time. I really enjoyed the workshop delivered by Alvaro Sánchez who will be in Devoxx France this week. The framework is really impressive. Give it a try!

You will find on Twitter a complete thread about my Greach Conf impressions:

Coming back to Paris after 3 amazing days in Madrid as speaker and attendee at @greachconf #greach opening a thread 👇🏻

— Katia Aresti (@karesti) 30 mars 2019

Voxxed Days Milano

Voxxed Days Milano (Italy) was organizing the first edition this year and I really loved this conference in every aspect of it! Thanks, Mario Fusco and all the team involved for making it possible!

Voxxed Days Milano - Photo credit Sanne Grinovero 

I've written a full thread on Twitter with my impressions. You can find it attached to the tweet where I share all the content I've used in Greach Conf, BreizhCamp and Voxxed Days Milano:

My presentation content #VDM19 is available! @VoxxedMilano ! Thanks for attending!

The code of @vertx_project and @Infinispan embeddedhttps://t.co/KYNUJRzauU

The code of @QuarkusIO and @Infinispan client/serverhttps://t.co/9TV9tPBaeI

Deck: https://t.co/HR8nMR7xlL

— Katia Aresti (@karesti) 13 avril 2019

Thanks to Breizh Camp, Greach Conf and Voxxed Days Milano for the opportunity to share around distributed caches and for the amazing time I've had during this month in each of the conferences.

This tour is now over for a while but will continue before summer. I will be presenting this talk (with upgrades, so stay tuned) in Dev Fest Lille in June 2019 (France), in Comunidad CODE (Virtual talk) and Software Crafters Bilbao in Spanish.

Devoxx France 

Devoxx France is taking place this week in Paris. I will be there, so if you want to chat about Distributed caches, Datagrids, NoSQL Key-Value databases, or integration with your favorite framework feel free to reach me on twitter!


There are lot's of new features and Reactive APIs to be done for Infinispan 10, so my main focus will be there for a bit.

Stay Tuned And Happy Coding!

Operator 0.2.1 out with DNS ping and expanded customizations

We've just completed the release of the Infinispan Operator version 0.2.1. In this second minor release, we've added the following features:

DNS Cluster Discovery

Cluster nodes now discover each other using DNS ping, which uses name lookups. Each node publishes a headless service which they use to locate each other. Previously, Kubernetes APIs were queried to discover other nodes, but this required administrator rights. DNS ping does not require admin permissions.

Configurable Image

The Infinispan server image used by the operator is now configurable, e.g.

Configurable XML

You can now provide their own custom Infinispan server XML referencing an existing ConfigMap:

Note that this example requires a ConfigMap with the XML file to be created before hand.

Next Steps

We're already working on version 0.3.0, and in parallel we've been working on our first OperatorHub submission. We hope to have some news for you very soon :)

Cheers,
Galder

Infinispan Spring Boot Starter 2.1.5.Final and 1.0.7.Final are out!

Dear Infinispan and Spring Boot users,

We have just released Infinispan Spring Boot Starter 2.1.5.Final and 1.0.7.Final.

2.1.5.Final

2.1.5.Final is using Infinispan 9.4.11.Final and Spring-Boot 2.1.4.RELEASE.

Important Spring-Boot bug fix

Previous versions of Spring-Boot 2.1.x contained a bug related to the multi-release jars. Infinispan contains multi-release jars, in consequence, we could not run our applications using java -jar with Java 11 (Java 8 worked fine). For additional explanations, read here.
Spring-Boot team has fixed this bug and released the correction in Spring-Boot 2.1.4.RELEASE, along with many other features and bug fixes, so consider upgrading soon.

Statistics on Client/Server mode and Actuator

Statistics configuration in client/server mode for the client evolved in the latest Infinispan versions. As a remainder, to activate actuator statistics in client/server mode :
- Configure 'infinispan.remote.statistics=true' in the application.properties
or
- Configure ''infinispan.client.hotrod.statistics=true" in the hotrod-client.properties
or
- Configure by code, for example:

@Bean
public InfinispanRemoteConfigurer infinispanRemoteConfigurer() {
    return () -> new ConfigurationBuilder().statistics().enable().build();
}

JMX

If you want to use Infinispan and JMX, for example on Client/Server mode, set the 'jmx' property 'true' as explained above with the 'statistics' property. However, you might get a javax.management.InstanceAlreadyExistsException because both Infinispan and Spring will try to register the MXBean.

The correction will land on the next starter release. If you need to avoid this error today, you can tell Spring-Boot not to register the bean with the following code (Thanks Stéphane Nicoll for the tip!):

Testcontainers

This version includes an integration test using Testcontainers, JUnit5 and the Infinispan Server. Grab a look here if you are curious.

1.0.7.Final

1.0.7.Final upgrades to 1.5.19.RELEASE and Infinispan 9.4.11.Final.

⭐ Don't forget to star the project in GitHub if you like the starter! ⭐

You can find these releases in the maven central repository.

Please report any issues in our issue tracker and join the conversation in our Zulip Chat to shape up our next release.

Enjoy,

The Infinispan Team