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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 1.9.0 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.
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Observability for Microcks at scale
As part of the upcoming 1.9.0 release of Microcks, I’m super proud to have contributed new features related to its observability and performance monitoring! As supporting the Open Source ecosystem is part of my day job at Grafana Labs, I was really excited by this collaboration with the Microcks project to put into practice the use of OpenTelemetry, a project that is also part of the CNCF. Why it matters? Microcks can be used and deployed in many topologies: from ephemeral instances with few APIs & services to always-up-and-running instances serving complex ecosystems of APIs in large organizations.
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Extend Microcks with custom libs and code
With the recent Microcks 1.8.1 version, there’s an abundance of exciting enhancements, from improved OpenAPI references support to optimizations for seamless usage via Testcontainers. But, in my humble opinion, a standout feature demands your attention. Introduced in 1.8.0 (see #897) and now completed with 1.8.1 (see #966), Microcks brings forth a game-changer: extensibility. Discover how to tailor and customize behaviors with your code or library, elevating your Microcks experience to heights!
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Microcks Joining CNCF as a Sandbox Project 🎉
We are excited to announce that Microcks, the open-source API mocking and testing project, has been accepted as a Sandbox project by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). We thank the CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) members for their validation and the TAG App Delivery team for their invaluable support during this process 🙏 Josh Gavant, Abigail (Abby) Bangser, Scott Rigby, Colin Griffin… 👉 See our submission form and information for the full details.
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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.
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Introducing Microcks Docker Desktop Extension 0.2: Enhanced Features and Increased Cadence 🚀
We are very excited to announce the availability of Microcks Docker Desktop Extension 0.2.0! This new version of our popular extension includes exciting enhancements designed to simplify and streamline API mocking and testing processes. This release focused on improving the user experience and expanding the extension’s capabilities. We are also excited to announce that we are increasing the frequency of our releases to provide our users with more frequent updates and features.
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