Laurent Broudoux

Microcks 1.13.0 release 🚀

We are excited to announce today the 1.13.0 release of Microcks, the CNCF’s open-source cloud-native tool for API Mocking and Testing! 🚀

Microcks 1.12.0 release 🚀

We are thrilled to announce today the 1.12.0 release of Microcks, the CNCF’s open source cloud native tool for API Mocking and Testing! 🚀

Microcks 1.11.1 release 🚀

Less than two months after the previous release, we are thrilled to announce this brand-new Microcks version! Please welcome the 1.11.1 release of Microcks, the CNCF’s open source cloud native tool for API Mocking and Testing, 🙌

Microcks 1.11.0 release 🚀

Start fresh this New Year and welcome the 1.11.0 release of Microcks, the CNCF’s open-source cloud-native API Mocking and Testing tool!

Announcing Testcontainers Modules 0.3

To start the 2025 Year fresh, we’re delighted to announce the release of the new series of our Testcontainers Modules 🧊! Microcks modules are language-specific libraries that enable embedding Microcks into your unit tests with lightweight, throwaway instances thanks to containers.

Microcks 1.10.0 release 🚀

We are excited to announce today the 1.10.0 release of Microcks, the CNCF’s open-source cloud-native tool for API Mocking and Testing, ready for summer ☀️ vacations! 🚀

Microcks 1.9.1 release 🚀

Just two months after the previous release, we are thrilled to announce this brand-new Microcks version! Please welcome the 1.9.1 release of Microcks, the Open-source cloud-native tool for API Mocking and Testing 🙌

Mocking OpenID Connect redirect

A few days ago, I worked on a new prototype to see what it means to use Microcks to mock OpenID Connect authentication flows. As Zero-trust security model is now the norm in this cloud and distributed computing era, developers must integrate this from the beginning of their application development. However, accessing an Identity Provider (IDP) is not always convenient depending on your working situation - thinking of remote access, disconnected place, stateful provider inconsistencies, etc. Hence, there is an opportunity for light mocks that work locally, at the network level!

Microcks 1.9.0 release 🚀

This has been a busy week just before KubeCon EU, but we are delighted to announce the 1.9.0 release of Microcks, the CNCF’s open-source cloud-native tool for API Mocking and Testing,

Microcks 1.8.1 release 🚀

We are thrilled to start this New Year with a brand new Microcks release! Say hi to the 1.8.1 release of Microcks, the Open-source cloud-native tool for API Mocking and Testing 👏

Microcks on Kind 🚢

I’m still on housekeeping duty! I went through my notes on installing Microcks on Kind and decided to refresh them. Network and Ingress configuration here is actually easier than in the Minikube setup.

Microcks on Minikube 🧊

As we close the year, it’s a good time for some housekeeping! On this occasion, I found some installation notes that could be worth transforming into proper blog posts or documentation. I went through my notes on installing Microcks on Minikube and decided to refresh them. It also needed to be completed with detailed information that we usually take for granted and forget to mention - such as network and Ingress configuration.

Microcks 1.8.0 release 🚀

As the seasons transition, we are excited to unveil the 1.8.0 release of Microcks, the CNCF’s open-source cloud-native tool for API Mocking and Testing, right on the cusp of winter! ❄️ 🚀

Microcks 1.7.1 release 🚀

The seasons follow one another and here’s a Microcks release just ready for summer ☀️. We’re proud to announce today the 1.7.1 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing.

Microcks' Backstage integration to centralize all your APIs in a software catalog 🧩

Identifying and managing software assets has always been a challenge! It became more and more difficult these years with the blast of multi-cloud deployments and practices like microservices. Fortunately, Backstage comes to the rescue and tends to become a standard for developer portals. Today, we are excited to announce an integration between Microcks and Backstage to ease the management of API related assets.

Microcks 1.7.0 release 🚀

The end of the winter season ☃️ is coming. But unlike our fellow hibernators 🐻, instead of living off stores of fat, our amazing community has worked hard on yet another Microcks release - yes, version 1.7.0 is out 👏

Microcks partners with Postman to shape next-gen multi-protocol API tooling ⭐️

I’m feeling proud and honored to let you know that we’re partnering with Postman, the leading platform for API development, to define the future of multi-protocol API tooling 🚀

Microcks Docker Desktop Extension 🚀

We are excited to announce the release of Microcks’ Docker Desktop Extension as we always love to support and improve the lives of our community members. 🎉

Microcks 1.6.0 release 🚀

We are excited to announce the 1.6.0 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing. It has been an intense summer time for us as the previous 1.5.2 is just 3 months old!

Microcks 1.5.2 release 🚀

We are delighted to announce the 1.5.2 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing. This is mainly an “Enhancement release” pushing further the Microcks’ Hub and Marketplace we introduced a few weeks ago.

Microcks’ hub and marketplace!

We are very proud to announce the launch of Microcks’ community hub and free marketplace 👉 hub.microcks.io! This has been discussed and requested many times within our community and here we are 🙌

Microcks 1.5.1 release 🚀

We are proud to announce the 1.5.1 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing. We considered it a minor release this time as it “just” brought a new protocol binding and a lot of enhancements!

Microcks 1.5.0 release 🚀

We are excited to announce the 1.5.0 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing. Just three months have passed after the previous iteration, and our supporters in the community helped us push up a new release with significant features once again. Thanks a lot to all of them 👏

GraphQL features in Microcks: what to expect?

In various 2021 reports, GraphQL has been spotted as one of the most exciting technologies to consider for APIs. It is a query language and a runtime for fulfilling those queries with your existing data. GraphQL provides a complete and understandable description of the data in your API, gives clients the power to ask for exactly what they need and nothing more, makes it easier to evolve APIs over time, and enables powerful developer tools.

Microcks 1.4.1 release 🚀

We are thrilled to announce today the 1.4.1 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing. This release is another demonstration of the ability of Microcks to play on both sides with new Enterprise related features but also enhancement towards the Developer eXperience.

Async Features with Docker Compose

For some weeks now, many users from the Microcks community were asking for playing with AsyncAPI related features without having to setup a Minikube or a full Kubernetes instance. And Docker-Compose is the perfect match for that! We were at first reluctant as it is an additional configuration to support… but developers experience FTW! 💪

Microcks 1.3.0 release 🚀

We are so proud and happy to share this new major and important Microcks release two months in advance based on our initial roadmap! Yes, this was yet another big challenge 🎉 Kudos to our community users and partners for supporting and pushing us to this momentum.

Microcks 1.2.1 release 🚀

We are very glad to announce today the 1.2.1 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing. This is mainly an “Enhancement release” pushing further the features we introduced within the previous 1.2.0 release.

Simulating CloudEvents with AsyncAPI and Microcks

TL;DR: CloudEvents and AsyncAPI are complementary specifications that help define your Event Driven Architecture. Microcks allows simulation of CloudEvent to speed-up and ensure autonomy of development teams.

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Microcks 1.2.0 release 🚀

We are delighted to announce the 1.2.0 release of Microcks - the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing. With this new release, we are pursuing further our vision of a unique tool and consistent approach for speeding up the delivery and governing the lifecycle of ALL kinds of APIs - whether synchronous or asynchronous.

Advanced Dispatching and Constraints for mocks

The purpose of this post is to explain the advanced dispatching and constraint features available when mocking a REST API using Microcks. As I recently went again through the documentation answering questions on our Discord chat, I realized that all the pieces were present but we did not have any overall example showing how to use them!

Continuous Testing of ALL your APIs

We talk a lot about asynchronous API lately at Microcks! We added many new innovative features taking advantage of the AsyncAPI specification. These are nice additions but we do not want them to hide the foundational essence of Microcks: offering you a consistent approach whatever the type of API. See our Why Microcks ? post for a refresher.

Integrating Microcks into Apicurio Keycloak

Microcks is an amazing tool that helps developers mock their APIs seamlessly using OpenAPI specs. This makes it easy for distributed teams to develop complex micro-services without having to wait for full development cycles to complete, thus maximising team efficiencies.

Apache Kafka Mocking and Testing

We see Apache Kafka being more and more commonly used as an event backbone in new organizations everyday. This is irrefutable. And while there are challenges adopting new frameworks and paradigms for the apps using Kafka, there is also a critical need to govern events and speed-up delivery. To improve time-to-market, organizations need to be able to develop without waiting for the whole system to be up and running ; and they will need to validate that the components talking with Kafka will send or receive correct messages.

Microcks 1.1.0 release 🚀

We are very thrilled to announce today Microcks 1.1.0 release — the Open source Kubernetes-native tool for API Mocking and Testing. What a ride it has been over the last months since 1.0.0 release and our announcement of AsyncAPI support !

Why Microcks?

Microcks recently reached a key milestone as we officially announced on Aug 11th 2020 the release of Microcks 1.0.0, being our first General Availability (GA) version. With it we deliver the promise of providing an enterprise-grade solution to speed up, secure and scale your API strategy for the digital era — whatever the type of services or API.

Microcks 1.0.0 release 🚀

Today is a very special day as we launch Microcks 1.0.0 and as it materializes a vision we had 18 months ago when starting investing more time on what was just a fun side-project at that time. That vision was about building one simple, scalable and consolidating tool for all the Enterprise services mocking and testing needs — whatever the type of services or API: green-field or legacy. Today, Microcks is the only Open source Kubernetes native tool for API Mocking and Testing supporting REST APIs, SOAP WebServices and now asynchronous / event-driven APIs!

Install Microcks on AWS for a test drive 🧪

Whilst we recommend installing Microcks on Kubernetes for easy management and enhanced capabilities, it can also be deployed onto a regular Virtual Machine. This post details how you can setup Microcks onto an AWS EC2 instance if you’re familiar with this environment and want a quick test drive. It takes something like 6–7 minutes to complete from end-to-end. It’s an illustration of setup documentation using Docker Compose.

Microcks 0.9.0 release 🚀

I am delighted to announce Microcks release 0.9.0 — the Open source Kubernetes native tool for API Mocking and Testing. This new version introduces a tremendous amount of enhancements and new features.