At this year's CF.Objective I had the privilege to present on CommandBox and how to create packages and publish them in our community website www.forgebox.io. It is imperative for the ColdFusion (CFML) community to start leveraging CommandBox and ForgeBox in order to create applications, libraries and share cool code!
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Easy Bake: Multi-Tier Deployments using CommandBox Docker Images
Jon Clausen |
July
24,
2017
We've been using our CommandBox Docker images for awhile now for multi-tier development and deployment. We've also received a lot of great feedback from the community that has helped to expand the power and flexibility of the those images in orchestrating CFML server environments.
One important aspect of non-development deployments of applications on the CommandBox image, is the need to warm up the server by seeding the CFML engine file system and configuration before the application is deployed in its target environment/tier. Other than the default Lucee 4.5 engine, which is what CommandBox, itself, runs on, any CFML engine specified in your application's server.json file is downloaded upon server start. Depending on the latency of your Docker environment's connection, this can mean that a bare-bones first run of your application can take minutes to start up, rather than seconds. For obvious reasons, this is not desirable.
CommandBox 3.7.0 Released
Brad Wood |
July
17,
2017
We are excited to announce the general availability of CommandBox 3.7.0. This is another minor release for CommandBox, but comes packed with some major new features. If you want a more comprehensive overview of what's been added, read through this post where we put out our call for release candidate testing. Here's a high level overview of what's gone into this latest release.
CommandBox 3.7.0 Release Candidate Ready For Testing
Brad Wood |
June
30,
2017
We've got a new release candidate of CommandBox ready for you to test that's just teeming with new features!
CommandBox 3.7.0-rc is available now for a final round of testing before its final release. There been 51 tickets completed in the last 3 months that bring enhancements to the CLI, TestBox integration, web servers, package management, plus some new stuff called Task Runners!
Portainer Docker Support for CommandBox and ContentBox
Luis Majano |
May
23,
2017
We are very excited that the [Portainer.io](http://portainer.io/) crew has added support for CommandBox and CommandBox docker image deployment!
Don't know what a container is? Continue down and we will show you what it's all about!
Using "testbox watch" to Automate Your Testing Suite
Brad Wood |
May
19,
2017
Using "testbox watch" to Automate Your Testing Suite
There is a new command in town in the CommandBox 3.7 snapshot build. If you want to get the current snapshot build of CommandBox 3.7 to try this out, and play with it, simply run the following command and it will direct you to the latest bleeding edge download page:
CommandBox> upgrade --latest
DC CF.Objective() 2017 CommandBox Training Discounts
Luis Majano |
May
19,
2017
DC CommandBox Training Discounts!
If you will be attending this year's [CF.Objective](https://www.cfobjective.com/) (Which you should!) on July, then you can attend our ColdFusion CommandBox training (July 18-19) and get a whooping **25%**! You can use the discount code `cfobjective` and be on your way to learn how to evolve your legacy ColdFusion applications by using modern tooling like CommandBox!
CommandBox FusionReactor Module v1.6.0 released
Brad Wood |
April
18,
2017
We've had our CommandBox FusionReactor Module out for about 6 months now which lets you easily enable FusionReactor on your CommandBox servers. It works for Lucee and Adobe servers alike and requires no manual installation. All you need to do is install the module and add in your license key with these two commands:
CommandBox> install commandbox-fusionreactor CommandBox> fusionreactor register "XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX"
Where are my Lucee and Adobe ColdFusion log files on CommandBox servers?
Brad Wood |
April
10,
2017
As more people are starting to use CommandBox to start their Adobe ColdFusion and Lucee servers, I've gotten the question of where to find their log files. The servers that CommandBox starts are full fledged servers with a web admin and all the same log files you'd expect. However, CommandBox skips the vendor installer and uses the WAR files of each engine for a quick and lightweight deployment that can be deleted later and won't conflict with other servers, no matter how many you have.
CommandBox 3.6.0 Released
Brad Wood |
March
10,
2017