For Camel 3.16.0 we are removing the deprecated container-based test modules and replacing them with a new set of modules called Camel test-infra. They continue to support container-based tests via TestContainers, however they abstract the underlying test infrastructure. One of the great benefits for our project is that they allow us to more easily switch from container-based tests, to external instances. Previously, we would need to create a new test or implement a more complex design if we wanted to test both a container instance and an external service instance (i.

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NOTE: this post has first appeared in the author’s blog. KEDA (Kubernetes Event Driven Autoscalers) is a fantastic project (currently CNCF incubating) that provides Kubernetes-based autoscalers to help applications to scale out according to the number of incoming events when they are listening to several kinds of event sources. In Camel K we’ve long supported Knative for providing a similar functionality for integrations that are triggered by HTTP calls, so supporting KEDA was something planned since long time, because it enables full autoscaling from a wider collection of sources.

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Apache Camel 3.15.0 introduces a new Dynamic Router EIP component. Although Camel core includes a Dynamic Router processor, I wanted a Dynamic Router implementation that was much closer, and more adherent, to the EIP specification. The Dynamic Router as a “glue” component, not a messaging server It is important to note that, while this implementation of the Dynamic Router is a component, it is not meant to be a component for some type of messaging system (like JMS, etc.

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