Camunda Blog
Jun 27, 2019
The Journey of Camunda BPM Asserts: From Extension to Platform
For the people who have been in any way involved with the Camunda Community the last few years, this is unlikely to be the first time you’ve heard the name Martin Schimak. Also if you’re a developer using Camunda, chances are that, perhaps unbeknownst to you – you’ve been greatly helped by some of the projects that Martin has created and released as open source extensions for the platform. Having people like Martin as part of the Camunda Community is an important factor to the success and adoption of the Open Source platform, so I wanted to talk to Martin about how he came to be such a positive influence on the project. Perhaps learning from him how to encourage…
By Niall Deehan
Jun 27, 2019
Workflows Are Everywhere (Or, Why We’re Building Zeebe)
In this post, we’ll share at a high level why we think workflow automation is and will continue to be important to organizations of all shapes and sizes and why we created Zeebe. Workflows Are Everywhere But the Scale of These Workflows–and How They’re Executed–Is Changing Enter Zeebe
Jun 26, 2019
Camunda BPM 7.12.0-alpha1 Released
Camunda BPM 7.12.0-alpha1 is here and the highlights are: Cockpit: BPMN Documentation Cockpit: Embedded Stacktraces 19 Bug Fixes You can Download Camunda for free (click on Preview Release) or Run it with Docker. If you are interested, you can see the complete release notes. If you want to dig in deeper, you can find the source code on GitHub.
Jun 24, 2019
Camunda BPM on Kubernetes
Running Camunda BPM on Kubernetes Are you running Kubernetes now? Ready to move your Camunda BPM instances off of VMs, or just try it out on Kubernetes? We will address some common configurations and provide some building blocks you can tailor to your particular needs. Skill level: Intermediate You’ve used Kubernetes before. If not, why not try a tutorial and spin up your first cluster? Authors Alastair Firth is a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on the Camunda Cloud team. Lars Lange is a Devops Engineer at Camunda. TL:DR; git clone https://github.com/camunda-cloud/camunda-examples.git cd camunda-examples/camunda-bpm-demo make skaffold Ok that probably didn’t work unless you have skaffold and kustomize installed. Read on! What is Camunda BPM Camunda BPM is an open source platform…
By Alastair Firth, Lars Lange
Jun 17, 2019
Real World BPMN with Zeebe and Minecraft
Here is a great example of how Zeebe and BPMN can be used to solve real-world business problems – in this case, in Minecraft!
By Josh Wulf
Jun 14, 2019
Camunda BPM – Session Management in Cloud Environments
In the last few years we’ve noticed many of our users are migrating from bare-metal infrastructures to cloud-based ones. While the cloud has overcome several limitations of the traditional infrastructure, other problems arise when deploying your microservices in environments that have the possibility to scale up and down dynamically based on workload. When deploying Camunda BPM, the first problem that you will encounter will be, most probably, session management.While this is easily solvable in traditional environments by using sticky sessions, the same solution does not apply when you deal with cloud environments like, Kubernetes. The reason is that sticky sessions do not behave well in dynamic environments since they expect the underlying infrastructure to be static. Recently we’ve been working…
By Lars Lange
Jun 12, 2019
Announcing the June 2019 Zeebe and Operate Releases
The Zeebe and Operate teams are excited to announce the release of Zeebe 0.18.0 and Operate-1.0.0-alpha11. You can download the Zeebe and Operate distributions here.
Jun 1, 2019
Writing a Zeebe Exporter – Part Two
In Part One, we built a minimal exporter, and learned about the exporter life-cycle methods. In this blog post, we will walk through building a Zeebe exporter for the Event Store database, an open source database for storing event streams. The complete source code for this example is available on GitHub. As well, there is a compiled version, along with a docker-compose configuration for it on the 0.18 branch of the zeebe-docker-compose repo. This exporter is based on the Simple Monitor exporter. The Simple Monitor exporter exports to an H2 database via JDBC. The exporter we are going to write uses REST to export to Event Store. We’ll use the same patterns for configuration, but we have less configuration, and…
By Josh Wulf
May 31, 2019
Camunda BPM 7.11.0 Released
We are excited to announce that Camunda BPM platform 7.11.0 is now available. Highlights from Camunda 7.11.0 include: Operator Authorizations Operator and Admin Auditing Return Variables on Task Completion / Form Submission / Message Correlation Asynchronously set Removal Time on Historical Data BPMN Error Event Triggering from Execution Listeners Fluent Java Testing API Additional Supported Environments 92 Bug Fixes You can download Camunda 7.11.0 for free or run it with Docker. Also included in the release: Camunda Spring Boot Starter 3.3.1, which relies on Spring Boot 2.1.5 by default. Camunda BPM Assert 4.0.0 for convenient testing of processes in Java. Node.js external task client 1.1.1 version for JavaScript developers Java external task client 1.2.0 version can be embedded in Java…
