Geoff Bowers talks about “Secrets from the folks who make the official Lucee CFML Docker images” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

Secrets from the folks who make the official Lucee Docker images

Treat your servers like cattle and not pets - throw old server away and instantiate a new clean one

Much faster server spin up (seconds)

Much easier server setup and programmable install

Continuous delivery ⇒ more confidence at rolling out code changes

Dev → stage → production

CF DevOps Tips

Version control of server instances

No more running server upgrades or patches for CF, the JVM, the OS, the DB - pull a new Docker image and create a fresh server

Programmatically server config

Orchestration of server clusters

High availability by having 2+ containers in different data centers (on AWS)

Checkbox for MySQL replication (and read replicas)

“Infrastructure on demand”

Paying by the minute (auto shut down staging server at night and weekends to save 50% on your AWS costs

Security scanning of docker images

Converting to Docker

No writing files locally → CDN or other shared location

5 day convert to Docker Daemon consulting

Why Serverless is cool.

Spaghetti server architecture

Lasagna layers

Ravioli micro services

What new apps are you building in Lucee CFML

University private video hosting

AWS transcoding service

Queue + auto scaling of servers

16 TB of data

High availability infrastructure

Tricks to migrating legacy ACF to Lucee CFML

The app that would never die

How he started WebDU and why they consciously chose to close it after a 10 year run.

What did you enjoy at CFObjective?

How did you come up with the name Daemon and @modius?

Daemon (is pronounced Demon in the US) like Encyclopaedia / Haemoglobin

Why are you proud to use CFML?

WWIT to make CF more alive this year?

Mentioned in this episode

Lucee CFML

Tomcat

Docker

Containers

Chef

Ansible

Vagrant

Debian Linux

OpenJDK

Alpine Linux - very lean (5MB)

Microsoft Windows Docker containers

Farcry CF CMS

Patrick Quinn episode

AWS

Park My Cloud 

DockerHub

Brian Klass AWS episode

AWS transcoding service

Amazon S3

Amazon EC2

Azure

Digital Ocean

Brad Wood

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Bio

Geoff Bowers

Geoff Bowers is a CEO of Daemon in Sydney Australia for 22 years so far and a President of Lucee Association (LAS). He has ran WebDU conference for 10 years.

Links

Website

Twitter

Interview transcript

Michael:          I'm here with Geoff Bower from Demon. [If I'm saying that right. He gave me extensive lessons on how to pronounce it.] And we're going to be talking about secrets from the folks who make the official Lucee CFML Docker images. So as well as that, we’ll look at some ColdFusion dev ups tips. Why is he thinks Servulous is so cool these days, and some of the neat apps he's building with Lucee CFML with his team there down in Australia. And also look at tricks they use on migrating legacy Adobe ColdFusion to Lucee. And we’ll also do a little bit of chat about web [inaudible] [00:40], and a few other interesting things. So welcome Geoff.

Geoff:                         hi there

Michael:          And just in case you don't know, he’s C.E.O. of Demon, has been around for like 22 years, been doing ColdFusion forever, or at least since version one.

Geoff:             Seems like forever. Now probably since version… I think might be version was is three and a half I can’t remember.

Michael:          In 97, was three and a half?

Geoff:                         Nearly three and a half. 97 is sort of the time frame.

Michael:          Yeah,