Monthly Archives: February 2021

Jenkins: running workers in Kubernetes and Docker images build
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27 February 2021

We have a Jenkins instance that is running jobs in Docker containers on its host. Eventually, we’ve faced with an issue when the current AWS Ec2 instance t2.2xlarge (8 CPU, 32 RAM) during peak workload periods was too overloaded – not enough CPU time, not enough memory. So, the first solution could be to proceed… Read More: Jenkins: running workers in Kubernetes and Docker images build0 (0) »

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Kubernetes: NGINX/PHP-FPM graceful shutdown and 502 errors
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25 February 2021

We have a PHP application running with Kubernetes in pods with two dedicated containers – NGINX и PHP-FPM. The problem is that during downscaling clients get 502 errors. E.g. when a pod is stopping, its containers can not correctly close existing connections. So, in this post, we will take a closer look at the pods’… Read More: Kubernetes: NGINX/PHP-FPM graceful shutdown and 502 errors0 (0) »

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Yandex.Tank: load testing tool – an overview, configuration, and examples
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10 February 2021

Besides the Apache Bench and JMeter there is another utility – Yandex Tank. It’s used by our QA team and now it’s time for me to take a closer look on it to test one issue with our application running on a Kubernetes cluster. In this post a short overview of its capabilities and configuration.… Read More: Yandex.Tank: load testing tool – an overview, configuration, and examples0… »

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Linux: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8) and Cyrillic symbols
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4 February 2021

Locales is a set of environment variables that are used to determine how to display data and time (for example, first of the week), symbols encoding (for example, how to display cyrillic symbols), default files order when one executing the ls command, and so on. Those variables are: LANG: Determines the default locale in the… Read More: Linux: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (en_US.utf8) and Cyrillic symbols0… »

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Linux: connect Bluetooth headset with bluetoothctl and Blueman
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2 February 2021

Recently, I bought a Sony WH-1000XM3 headset. In general, they are great but need to connect them to my laptop with Arch Linux. The documentation about Bluetooth on Arch Linux can be found here>>> and here>>>: Installation Install necessary packages: [simterm] $ sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-utils [/simterm] Check kernel’s module: [simterm] $ lsmod |… Read More: Linux: connect Bluetooth headset with bluetoothctl and Blueman0 (0) »

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Logz.io: collection logs from Kubernetes – fluentd vs filebeat
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1 February 2021

We are using Logz.io to collect our Kubernetes cluster logs (also, there is a local Loki instance). Logs are collected and processed by a Fluentd pod on every WorkerNode which are deployed from a DaemonSet in its default configuration, see the documentation here – logzio-k8s. The problem we faced is that those pods are consuming… Read More: Logz.io: collection logs from Kubernetes – fluentd vs filebeat0 (0) »

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