Gavin Pickin talks about “ContentBox in the Cloud (Docker Magic)” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light.

He is one of the speakers at Into The Box 2018 conference.

Show notes

What is ContentBox and why would you want to use it with Docker?

ContentBox is a great Modular CMS built on top of ColdBox

Using CommandBox and Forgebox you can install modules and extend your app in seconds.

You can extend and build on top of ContentBox easily to mold it to your liking.

Interception points

CFCs

It’s just ColdBox MVC under the hood.

Big changes in 3.8 releasing any day now.

themes , modules and widgets now upgrade proof

Docker friendly

Version 4 - maybe at ITB - come and find out.

Env Variable support

CFConfig for loading your CF Engine from scripts

ContentBox docker image

Which has a few extra ContentBox goodies added on top of the usual CommandBox docker image.

File mounts

Special settings

Old School servers vs Docker and CI

Painful to think about old school server

10 page documents of the setup

Using a Docker file mount to be able to share Media files between 2 instances

For images and documents

Persistent storage

A bit a CDN

How to cluster sessions so your ContentBox site can run in the cloud, on more than one instance.

More speed

More reliability

Separated from other sites

Horizontal scale vs vertical scale

Auto scaling with Docker Swarm

Portainer

Couchbase / Redis Extension for Clustered Caching

Elastic Search

ColdBox APIs

Scaling

4 servers high traffic

Travel sites

Why are you proud to use CF?

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at Into the Box this year?

What other conferences are you going to attend?

Speaking at CF Summit West again - if they pick me - speaker deadline April 15th.

CF Objective on hiatus this year so first time in 6 years I won’t be speaking there

MuraCon in Sacramento early in April.

Waiting for dates NCDevCon - would love to attend this one.

CFCamp - I wish… maybe next year. Brad and Luis will probably be there.

Ortus Developer Week

Ortus Roadshow

ContentBox + Docker

Start to finish, launch your ContentBox site in the cloud with Docker. We will look at the ContentBox docker image, which has a few extra ContentBox goodies added on top of the usual CommandBox docker image. We will learn how to use a file mount to be able to share Media files between 2 instances, and how to cluster sessions so your ContentBox site can run in the cloud, on more than one instance.

Ortus Keynote

The Ortus Keynote gives you insight into Ortus Solutions, the past, present and future.

You'll meet the members of Team Ortus, community members, speakers and sponsors.

We'll tell you a story about CFML, which we think you will want to hear, and learn what Ortus and the community is doing for CFML and the future of CFML.

You will get updates on an array of Ortus *Box products, including recent releases & upcoming plans and features in our roadmaps.

We will finish with Ortus's plans for the future… as well as remind you of a driving force behind all things Ortus.

Alexa and ColdBox APIs

Alexa from Amazon powers the Amazon Echo, Amazon Fire TV and is Amazon's answer to Siri, Cortana and Google home.

Amazon's Alexa Skills Kit allows developers to build their own set of abilities that can be published to the Alexa App Store for consumers to use.

This Session will walk through the pros and cons of voice, how to design a voice user interface, how to get started with ColdBox, and how to design Alexa Commands that integrate with your ColdBox API.

ColdBox Zero to Hero

Full day workshop - sold out

Mentioned in this episode

Gavin’s ITB sessions 

Comprehensive list of ColdFusion conferences

ContentBox episode (with roadmap)

Digital Ocean