What is the pointer? Shortly, the pointer is a variable which stores an address of another variable, where some data is stored. A pointer example Let’s take the simplest example where a pointer is used: package main import “fmt” func main() { a := 1 b := &a fmt.Println(“A: “, a) fmt.Println(“B: “, b) fmt.Println(“B:… Read More »
The task is to write a tool which will be started from a Jenkin’s job by a cron and will check an organization’s public repositories list in the Github. A Docker-image build and a Jenkins job are described in the Jenkins: a job to check a Github organization’s public repositories list post. Then it has… Read More »
Still on the subject about Redis replication and Redis Sentinel – a couple of examples using the redis-py library for Python. Previous series posts: Redis: replication, part 1 – an overview. Replication vs Sharding. Sentinel vs Cluster. Redis topology Redis: replication, part 2 – Master-Slave replication, and Redis Sentinel All Redis clients for Python can be… Read More »
The first part – Redis: replication, part 1 – overview. Replication vs Sharding. Sentinel vs Cluster. Redis topology. The next part – Redis: replication, part 3 redis-py and work with Redis Sentinel from Python. The whole story was started when we decided to get rid of memcached. Currently, we have memcahced and Redis running on… Read More »
We have three working environments – Dev, Stage, Production. Also, there are a bunch of alerts with different severities – info, warning и critical. For example: … – name: SSLexpiry.rules rules: – alert: SSLCertExpiring30days expr: probe_ssl_earliest_cert_expiry{job=”blackbox”} – time() < 86400 * 30 for: 10m labels: severity: info annotations: summary: “SSL certificate warning” description: “SSL certificate… Read More »
chroot() was added to the Version 7 Unix in 1979 and used for filesystem isolation. In fact, it’s the predecessor of the whole current containerization idea, just now there are namespaces and cgroups are used while earlier chroot was used to create an environment which is isolated from a host and can be used for… Read More »