Category Archives: Zkybase CMDB

Zkybase now supports authorized access to GitHub via Spring Social GitHub

This one’s another quick Zkybase screenshot post. Using Spring Social GitHub, it’s easy to access public user and repo information via the GitHubTemplate. But if we want to access private information, or write capabilities, we need to use the Spring … Continue reading

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More Zkybase screenshots

It’s been a little while since I’ve posted Zkybase screenshots, so here’s the work in progress. I explain how to implement this stuff (Spring Data Neo4j, Spring/GitHub integration, JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit, etc.) in chapter 11 of my book Spring in … Continue reading

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Zkybase/GitHub integration

A major goal for Zkybase is to tie together the activities of developers, testers, release engineers and operations. A few major benefits are: Tool integration: We can single source app lists and more across development, build, test, deployment, monitoring, knowledge … Continue reading

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Domain Modeling with Spring Data Neo4j

Hi all, Willie here. Last time I told you that I’m building the Zkybase CMDB using Neo4j and Spring Data Neo4j, and I was excited to get a lot of positive feedback about that. I showed a little code but … Continue reading

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Why I’m pretty excited about using Neo4j for a CMDB backend

Zkybase is my first open source configuration management database (CMDB) effort, but it’s not the first time I’ve built a CMDB. At work a bunch of us built–and continue to build–a proprietary, internal system CMDB called deathBURRITO as part of … Continue reading

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Zkybase screenshots

One of the things we’re working on is an open source configuration management system called Skybase. It’s a new project, and we’re still working out a lot of the high-level vision for this thing. I’ll post more information about it … Continue reading

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