Category Archives: HOWTO’s

Authy: step by step Multi-Factor Authentication configuration for Github and AWS
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17 April 2019

I’m sure that using MFA (Multi-Factor Authentication) today is oblivious. For 2FA (2-Factor Authentication) the most used method is TOTP – Time-based One-time Password, when alongside with the common login:password also needs to enter a code generated by a device or software. The most known implementation is Google Authenticator but also there is a lot… Read More »

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Jenkins: a job to check a Github organization’s public repositories list
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16 April 2019

Proceeding with a Github repositories checker. To recall: the idea is to have such a check in case if somebody from developers accidentally will share our project’s private repository as public, or will create a public repository instead of making it as a private one – we will get a Slack alarm about such a… Read More »

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Redis: replication, part 4 – writing an Ansible role fore the Master-Slave replication with Redis Sentinel provisioning
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15 April 2019

The next post from the Redis replication series. Previous parts: Redis: replication, part 1 – an overview. Replication vs Sharding. Sentinel vs Cluster. Redis topology. Redis: replication, part 2 – Master-Slave replication, and Redis Sentinel Redis: replication, part 3 – redis-py and work with Redis Sentinel from Python The task now is to write an… Read More »

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Go: checking public repositories list in Github. Go slices comparison. The first Golang experience.
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13 April 2019

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 »

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Ansible: get a target host’s IP
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9 April 2019

The task is to get a host’s IP during executing an Ansible task. Below – two examples of how this can be done. Example 1 – hostvars See the documentation here>>>. Code: – name: Test hosts list debug: msg: “{{ hostvars[inventory_hostname][‘ansible_default_ipv4’][‘address’] }}” Run it: [simterm] … TASK [test : Test hosts list] **** ok: [dev.backend-app1-internal.example.com]… Read More »

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JetBrains Upsource: installation, configuration on Linux with NGINX and SSL and PyCharm integration
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2 April 2019

Upsource is a self-hosted service from JetBrains for code reviews by teams of developers which can be integrated with any IDE from JetBrains. Is a Java-based application with Apache Cassandra as a backend for storing data and indexes. Minima requirements – 8 GiB memory on a host – not surprise at all. Up to 10… Read More »

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Redis: replication, part 3 – redis-py and work with Redis Sentinel from Python
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1 April 2019

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 »

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Redis: replication, part 2 – Master-Slave replication, and Redis Sentinel
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29 March 2019

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 »

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Redis: replication, part 1 – an overview. Replication vs Sharding. Sentinel vs Cluster. Redis topology.
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29 March 2019

CodeProject Initially, it was planned to write one small post with an example how to create a Redis replication but as I read more and more details – I wanted to describe more and more about it, so eventually I split this post into two parts. In this one – some quick overview, a brief… Read More »

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