Create your own web bots in .NET with CEFSharp!

Matt Cunningham .NET, Articles, Automation, JavaScript, Programming, Tutorial 8 Comments

Have you ever wanted to create an automated way to load, manipulate, and then act upon a web page?

Using CEFSharp (and some strategic JavaScript), you can create headless (no GUI) interfaces of Chromeโ€™s parent browser, Chromium, and then instruct them to do pretty much anything a web browser can do.

This is a tutorial about using CEFSharp to accomplish some basic web functions with simple examples. Weโ€™ll create three automated bots that can simulate user web interaction and programmatically react to browser events using CEF and the CEFSharp library. You can follow along by copying the code provided or by downloading…

Keyhole Announces 2022 Education Series: Kubernetes/Containers, Blockchain and HyperLedger

Lauren Fournier Bogner Articles, Blockchain, Community, Company News, DevOps, Educational Event, Hyperledger, Keyhole, Keyhole Creations Leave a Comment

We are excited to announce the Summer 2018 Keyhole Education Series!

This series consists of three educational Breakfast Boost events open to the public. The presentations are geared to benefit software developers who are implementing or interested in using Containers/Kubernetes, Blockchain, and/or HyperLedger with one presentation dedicated to each topic.

Kubernetes & Containers In Action: Tuesday, June 26, 2018
Blockchain in Action: Event Time: Wednesday, July 18, 2018
Implementing a Permissioned Smart Contract Blockchain with HyperLedger: Wednesday, August 15, 2018

All three presentations will be held at the Keyhole Software office in Leawood, Kansas. Space is limited so RSVP is required…

How an SMS Application Took a Job (i.e. Task)

David Pitt Articles, Automation, Conversational Apps, JavaScript, Keyhole Creations Leave a Comment

This blog is about a humanโ€™s job being replaced by automation. But, before you start composing emails and social media responses, know that itโ€™s a job that I think most folks would gladly allow an automated mechanism to take over.

The โ€œjobโ€ discussed in this blog is the need to contact individual users (in this case, employees) when those users forgot to accomplish a required task.

In this blog, we discuss a conversational application solution used internally at Keyhole Software for automated SMS text messaging features surrounding time tracking. The solution, implemented with conversational application platform KHS {Convo}, allowed for time entries to be submitted via text and automated, schedule-based notifications….

OpenShift Quick Start

David Pitt Articles, AWS, Cloud, DevOps, Docker, Microservices, OpenShift, openshiftseries Leave a Comment

Our previous blog in the series introduced RedHatโ€™s OpenShift solution that provides a way for enterprise teams to implement their own PaaS. Essentially, it sits atop the Docker-based Kubernetes platform to provide a ready-to-use DevOps platform.

This blog introduces two hands-on exercises (taken from our OpenShift Course), that work to walk you through the following tasks:

– Installing OpenShift locally
– Adding a Container with an API service to a Pod

Unfortunately, it will take more than this quick start blog to get OpenShift installed and enabled in an enterprise. That said, developers, system admins, and any party that may be working on or responsible for the platform, will benefit from understanding how to get OpenShift up and running on a local machine as shown in this blog.

Managing Docker Containers with OpenShift and Kubernetes

Casey Justus Articles, AWS, Cloud, Development Technologies & Tools, DevOps, Docker, Microservices, openshiftseries Leave a Comment

For the last few years, Docker containers have been all the rage in the DevOps world. After all, whatโ€™s not to like? They allow you to strip out 99% of stuff in your VM and just deploy your code.

Containers can save resources, speed deployment, scale well and offer more fault tolerance. But how do you manage them?

In my experience, the Docker Machine and Docker Swarm stack hasnโ€™t lived up my to expectations. It has a limited API, no support for monitoring and logging, and much more manual scaling. AWSโ€™s EC2 containers scale well, but youโ€™ll be locked into Amazon.

In my opinion, the best current stack for Docker containers includes Kubernetes and OpenShift. In this blog I will give a brief introduction to Kubernetes + OpenShift with an eye for what they do well…