Engineering
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.
Community
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
Process Orchestration
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
Community
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
Process Orchestration
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.
Process Orchestration
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
Engineering
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…
Product
We are happy to announce the release of Camunda Optimize version 2.5.0-alpha2. You can find improvements and features from the upcoming Optimize version 2.5.0 in this second alpha release. The highlights are: Multi-Tenancy Support Flow Node + User Task Report Enhancements Show / Hide Flow Nodes State Configurations (Running + Completed State) Running Flow Nodes Durations The complete release notes are available in Jira.
Community
When I first stumbled upon BPMN back in 2007, I was taken aback. It looked complicated! I didn’t really understand the difference between a sequence flow and a message flow, and, more importantly, I didn’t think I should care.
By Jakob Freund
