Category Archives: HOWTO’s

Jenkins: your Jenkins data directory is almost full and automated disk cleanup
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27 March 2019

We have a Jenkins instance with a bunch of jobs. After a while – a new warning appeared: Jenkins: your Jenkins data directory /var/lib/jenkins (aka JENKINS_HOME) is almost full Checked disk usage with the ncdu and found few jobs which used really lot of space: [simterm] root@jenkins-production:/data/jenkins# du -h –max-depth 1 jobs/ .. 25G jobs/APITests …… Read More »

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Kubernetes: running Minikube on Arch Linux
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27 March 2019

Minikube – a utility to run a Kubernetes cluster locally on your PC. It can use Virtualbox, VMware, Hyper-V etc hypervisors which will be used to create a virtual machine with a Kubernetes cluster. Minikube is a great tool for developers or DevOps engineers to test deployments/services etc without the need to create and configure… Read More »

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Prometheus: Alertmanager’s alerts receivers and routing based on severity level and tags
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26 March 2019

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 »

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Prometheus: Alertmanager – send alerts to a “/dev/null”
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26 March 2019

In addition to the Prometheus: Alertmanager’s alerts receivers and routing based on severity level and tags post. Have an Alertmanager config with routes. The task is – send all alerts from a Dev-environment into a “/dev/null”. To do this – create an empty receiver: … receivers: – name: ‘blackhole’ – name: ‘default’ slack_configs: – send_resolved:… Read More »

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What is: chroot – system call and utility in Linux
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23 March 2019

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 »

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TestRail: QA Test Case Management installation on Linux
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22 March 2019

TestRail – Test Case Management Software for QA and Development Teams. Well – that’s all needed as a description) Below – its installation on Debian Linux with NGINX, Let’s Encrypt, PHP-FPM, MariaDB, and Exim. Project’s homepage – www.gurock.com/testrail Installation official documentation – here>>>. Setup will be on an AWS EC2. LEMP and SSL Login to… Read More »

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Jenkins: Scripted Pipeline – Production environment job confirmation step
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19 March 2019

We have jobs which have to be executed on a Dev and Production environments via a Scripted Pipeline. In such jobs, there are tasks to execute CloudFormation upgrades on an infrastructure or Ansible playbooks to update servers configuration. To avoid an accidental execution of a Production job I want to have some confirmation step before… Read More »

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Monit: email alerting on an SSH logins
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18 March 2019

The task is to send an email alert when SSH-login was made from a not whitelisted IPs. Will use Monit here. Install it: [simterm] root@jenkins-dev:/home/admin# apt update && apt -y install monit [/simterm] Configure email settings: set localhost (we have a local eximhere), email’s format and email’s receiver. Edit the /etc/monit/monitrc file: … set mailserver localhost… Read More »

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