Laurent Broudoux

Co-founder of Microcks | Director of Engineering at Postman Open Technologies

🗓️ January 22, 2025

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! With over 60 resolved issues and 12 contributors, this is one of the biggest releases! Kudos to all the people 👏 who helped along the way by writing code, commenting on issues, or writing posts. Check our greetings and notes below. This release had no specific theme at the beginning but reviewing the content, we realized it was mainly about validation & traceability:

🗓️ January 15, 2025

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. The 0.3 series is a major step forward that completes the set of features and elevates Microcks as a fully featured mocking library for development purposes. It can be used with different testing styles (classicist, mockist, state-based, and interaction-based) and provides features for all major languages and all kinds of API!

🗓️ August 7, 2024

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! 🚀 For this release, we received help from 4 new code committers and dozens of others who opened, contributed, and reviewed 46 issues. Most of them are adopters! Kudos to all of them 👏 and see greetings along the notes below. 1.10.0 release brings you a wave of new features, including Stateful mocks support, a new lightweight API Examples specification format, tons of enhancements in the Uber and Native distributions, and a big refresh on installation dependencies.

🗓️ May 23, 2024

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 🙌 With no less than 30 newly resolved issues, this release is special as it is the first to have so many issues directly contributed by community users! 25 evolutions out of 30 directly come from them! Kudos to our community 👏, and see greetings along the notes below.

🗓️ April 24, 2024

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.

🗓️ March 14, 2024

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, We received help from 6 different external code committers and dozens of others who opened and reviewed issues and contributed ideas or blog posts. Most of them are adopters! Kudos to all of them 👏 and see greetings along the notes below.

🗓️ January 18, 2024

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 👏 This release embeds 54 resolved issues as we release an intermediary 1.8.1-M1 version to avoid some users waiting too much time. Here are the highlights of this release: OpenAPI complex structures support was asked to handle edge cases or organizations having a great maturity on OpenAPI, Uber/All-in-one architecture simplification was required to allow further enhancements in our Shift-Left strategy and Testcontainers support, Kubernetes deployments are now better managed with Helm enhancements, enabling greater customization for an enhanced GitOps approach!

🗓️ December 28, 2023

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. This installation notes were ran on my Apple Mac book M2 but those steps would sensibly be the same on any Linux machine. Let’s go 🚀 Preparation As a Mac user, I used brew to install kind. However, it is also available from several different package managers out there.

🗓️ December 27, 2023

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.

🗓️ October 17, 2023

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! ❄️ 🚀 With 47 resolved issues and 5 external PR (from new contributors) - This new release brings you a wave of new features, including AI Copilot, support for HAR artifacts, OAuth2 secured endpoint testing, Microcks super light Uber image, Testcontainers official module, two developer-friendly buttons for easy interactions (Copy as curl command and Add to your CI/CD), and an enhanced contextual help.

🗓️ June 21, 2023

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. With 37 resolved issues - our record for a minor release - this release is an illustration of how community-driven the roadmap is: Amazon SQS & SNS support and Specifications goodies as well as many enhancements came directly from user requests and contributions.

🗓️ May 12, 2023

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. Contributed to the CNCF by Spotify, Backstage is, according to their website:

🗓️ March 30, 2023

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 👏 In a few words, here are the highlights of this new release: Some new protocols & connectors, you asked for it so: NATS, Google PubSub, and Postman Workspace are now available,

🗓️ March 23, 2023

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 🚀 From day one, Microcks had the vision of a multi-protocol API ecosystem due to the ubiquitous nature of API. This is especially true at the enterprise level where the technology strata are built over the years. This vision has been confirmed by our growing user base and community.

🗓️ September 26, 2022

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. 🎉 It has never been simpler to set up and use Microcks on a laptop or from anywhere you need or want thanks to Docker Desktop Extension. 🙌 Without further ado, let’s take a quick look at how it functions and what it adds.

🗓️ September 15, 2022

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! We’re now “back to work” and happy to release many features that were requested by our community! In a few words, here are the highlights of this new release: Governance is certainly a huge topic and you’ll see how Microcks can bring significant insights regarding the Tests Conformance of your API, Observability can be tightly linked to Governance as well and Microcks has new APIs to bring you functional and technical observability, And of course a lot more: Direct API concepts enhancements and a coming Docker Desktop extension among many others!

🗓️ June 2, 2022

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. In our vision, the Hub will hold a central place that will allow Microcks users to easily reuse curated API Mocks & Test suites in a single click - but also to share and publish their own.

🗓️ May 12, 2022

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 🙌 The goal of this new community website is to collect, curate and share API Mocks & Test suites for being installed and used within any Microcks instance in a single click. If like us you like craft beers, let’s do the analogy between this announcement 👉 freely sharing API Mocks and Test suites and a brew bar!

🗓️ April 8, 2022

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! Once again this release is an illustration of how community-driven the roadmap is: AMQP and Swagger v2 support as well as more enhancements came directly from user requests. So thanks a lot to those who helped push up a new release with significant features once again.

🗓️ January 18, 2022

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 👏 In line with our mantra, this release is the evidence of our vision of a unique tool with a consistent approach for speeding up the delivery and governing the lifecycle of ALL kinds of APIs.

🗓️ January 7, 2022

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.

🗓️ October 15, 2021

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. You’ll see that we put a lot of effort (and love ❤️) into listening and implementing feedback and ideas from our community: the number of people that suggested, contributed or helped amplify Microcks reach in communities is huge!

🗓️ August 30, 2021

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! 💪 This blog post is a detailed walkthrough on how to use Asynchronous related features with Docker-Compose using the new set of compose files shipped in Microcks master branch.

🗓️ June 30, 2021

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. Nothing could have been done without all your feedback and contributions 👏 So why is this release so special? First, We always stay on our principles and we are still applying our mantra for supporting ALL kinds of APIs and being community driven.

🗓️ May 5, 2021

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. With this release, we are still applying our mantra for supporting ALL kinds of APIs and being community driven. Want some keywords on what’s in this 1.2.1 release? We’ve been working on OpenAPI v3.

🗓️ April 2, 2021

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. The rise of Event Driven Architecture (EDA) is a necessary evolution step towards cloud-native applications. Events are the ultimate weapon to decouple your microservices within your architecture. They are bringing great benefits like space and time decoupling, better resiliency and elasticity. But events come also with challenges!

🗓️ February 21, 2021

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. In this release, we put a lot of effort (and love ❤️) into listening and implementing feedback and ideas from our community.

🗓️ January 28, 2021

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! So I setup this new example based on a real life use-case our community users have submitted.

🗓️ December 3, 2020

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. With this post we want to demonstrate how traditional REST API and event-based API can be used together and how Microcks can leverage your OpenAPI and AsyncAPI assets to ease the testing of scenarios involving both of them.

🗓️ November 20, 2020

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. Apicurio Studio is another great tool to start creating your API documentation via a fully integrated OpenAPI spec editor and adds features like ability to view your documentation live as teams collaborate and edit specs on the editor in real-time.

🗓️ November 17, 2020

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.

🗓️ November 9, 2020

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 ! We received a huge amount of positive feedback from our community including many newcomers. So we took the time to come back and explain where we are coming from and what is our project purpose: see the “Why Microcks ?

🗓️ October 20, 2020

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. As we have received massive supportive feedback since August, we consider it a great opportunity to take some time to come back to the reasons why we started Microcks, especially for the newcomers.

🗓️ August 11, 2020

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!

🗓️ June 26, 2020

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. This will give you a Microcks installation on an AWS EC2 instance running Ubuntu 18.

🗓️ May 17, 2020

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. Big thanks to our growing community for all the work done, the raised issues and the collected feedback during the last 5 months to make it possible. This release was the preparation to become more Enterprise-grade, and we are glad that Microcks is in production in more and more medium to large organisations.