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Recap of an Amazing 2024, and ready to go for 2025!
As we wrap up 2024, we at Microcks want to express our gratitude to our adopters, sponsors, partners, and community members. Your unwavering support and engagement have been the foundation of our success, making this year nothing short of remarkable. We’ve achieved significant milestones such as more community implication, stronger ecosystem collaboration, and significant communication contributions and amplification from our members. This year has been transformative, marked by growth, innovation, and a sense of community that fuels our journey.
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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:
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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!
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Recap of an Amazing 2024, and ready to go for 2025!
As we wrap up 2024, we at Microcks want to express our gratitude to our adopters, sponsors, partners, and community members. Your unwavering support and engagement have been the foundation of our success, making this year nothing short of remarkable. We’ve achieved significant milestones such as more community implication, stronger ecosystem collaboration, and significant communication contributions and amplification from our members. This year has been transformative, marked by growth, innovation, and a sense of community that fuels our journey.
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Revolutionizing API Strategy: Lombard Odier's Success Story with Microcks
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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.
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A Thriving year in the CNCF Sandbox and Its Transformative Impacts
In the ever-evolving landscape of open-source software, achieving recognition and support from reputable foundations can be a game-changer for projects. This was precisely the case for Microcks, an innovative API mocking and testing project. When Microcks joined the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation) Sandbox a year ago, opportunities opened. In this blog post, we’ll delve into Microcks’s exciting journey as it embraced its CNCF Sandbox status and explore the profound positive impacts the project experienced in its first year within the foundation.
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CNAM Partners with Microcks for Automated SOAP Service Mocking
With over 2,500 employees, the Caisse Nationale de l’Assurance Maladie CNAM is the operational “headquarters” of France’s compulsory health insurance system. We play a pivotal role in ensuring access to healthcare for all French citizens, overseeing and funding health insurance coverage for employees and their families. Additionally, we coordinate with and assist the local organizations within our network, which consists of 164 entities deployed nationally, regionally, and locally throughout France. We rely on SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) for our historical and mission-critical legacy systems to facilitate seamless information exchange among these organizations.
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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.
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Introducing new Proxy features in Microcks 1.9.1
We all know about the many benefits of Microcks, which makes it an excellent tool for the software development process. When I first started using it, everything went smoothly. However, there is no limit to QA’s expectations 😊 Recently, a quality assurance specialist approached me with a request: “The mocks work fine, but we need to implement a new testing scenario. Every third or random response should be a mock-up, while the rest should be from the actual service…”
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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.
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