ColdFusion Docker Containers Roadshow Webinar with Brad Wood (Ortus Roadshow 3 of 5)

Welcome to the third ColdFusion Containers Roadshow Webinar by OrtusSolutions. This Friday, Brad Wood gave a presentation on the topic of “Configuring your Containers with CommandBox & CFConfig”.

These series are being held throughout the September, every Friday at 11 AM CST. Topics are covering anything you would need to build sustainable containerized ColdFusion applications using CommandBox, ColdBox, and ContentBox CMS technologies.

Remember that all webinars are FREE but with limited seats, so hurry up and sign up!

Contents

Welcome to CommandBox
Pain points- script
CFCONFIG
Using environment variables to configure your servers
Use source control as the mechanism for managing your settings in a generic way
Did you mean?
Set environment variables
Links
Sign up for the webinar

Welcome to CommandBox

Treating your servers as pets Vs. treating them as cattle
- Cattle= quick, easy; don't pet'em too much
Able to quickly change a version of Lucee, without having to start from scratch
The last missing piece= configuration

Pain points- script

Servers being able to spring forward

CFCONFIG

Module for CommandBox that allows you to manage the configuration of any ColdFusion image
- Data sources
- Mappings
Read the settings from the server, set them into a server, and trasfer settings around.

Using environment variables to configure your servers

Modus operandi
Built-in helpers

Turn on trusted cash

CFCONFIG will decrypt your mail server passwords and your data source passwords
Re-encrypt when finished
- Solutions to encryption and workaround
Anytime you stop a CommandBox server it will export whatever the current settings are
- good for sharing with co-workers

Use source control as the mechanism for managing your settings in a generic way

Did you mean?

Set environment variables

JSON file supposed to be picked up by default
Docker container can die at any moment
- Importance of shared files storage

Start up the server
Import the configuration
Warm up
When done with that, Docker containers will start up in a second Vs. over a minute long

Links

The whole month of great stuff coming up. Once again, big ups to the guys from OrtusSolutions for putting together this Roadshow.

The next Docker Roadshow is on Sep 22, 2017, 11:00 AM. Jon Clausen will be talking about “Box Microservices”.

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I must say that Ortus always has a very good overview of what’s going on. Very simple, clean, neat Sign up page will welcome you and give you the basic info.