We have a Jenkins job that runs a Docker container to build a PHP-application based on the Yii framework. Suddenly during the build, we got an error: … Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required… Read More »
One of the motives to go deeper into the keyrings (see the What is: Linux keyring, gnome-keyring, Secret Service, and D-Bus post) was the fact that Chromium, surprise-surprise, keep passwords unencrypted if a Linux system has no keyring and/or Secret Service enabled. So, let’s try to find how and where Chromium store passwords, and the… Read More »
Currently, I’m configuring a Redis as a caching service for our application and during that, I faced with the question: do I need to set vm.overcommit_memory to the value 1, i.e. disable it – or not? The question is quite old for me, see The story, but only now I found time to get to… Read More »
The task is to run our backend PHP tests using SonarQube from a jenkins Pipeline job. Jenkins running in Docker and all its builds also uses Docker. The main issue I faced during this setup was the fact that SonarQube’s container inside spawns another process with Elastisearch (while Docker concept says “1 service per one… Read More »
The task is to create a Jenkins Scripted Pipeline job to run PHPUnit with our PHP-based backend unit-tests. To run PHPUnit Codeception will be used. This Jenkins job must be triggered from a Github repository after creating Pull Request so will use Github Pull-Request Builder plugin here. To view generated reports – Allure Jenkins plugin… Read More »
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 »
Usually, I’m using vim almost for everything excepting big Python projects (which happen rarely last time). In such cases, I have PyCharm, which is also used for AWS CloudFormation templates with the aws-cloudformation plugin. For the Go lang programmes I have used vim with the vim-go plugin but on last weekend I tried the Atom… 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 »
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 »