Category Archives: Troubleshooting

Various problems solutions

Kubernetes: part 4 – AWS EKS authentification, aws-iam-authenticator and AWS IAM

3 September 2019
 

  Let’s proceed with our AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, EKS. Previous parts: Kubernetes: part 1 – architecture and main components overview Kubernetes: part 2 – a cluster set up on AWS with AWS cloud-provider and AWS LoadBalancer Kubernetes: part 3 – AWS EKS overview and manual EKS cluster set up. In the previous – Kubernetes:… Read More »

SonarQube: solving “Unrecoverable indexation failures” and Elasticsearch “Disk watermark exceeded” errors

29 August 2019
 

 We are using SonarQube started from a Jenkins jobs. See more at SonarQube: running tests from Jenkins Pipeline in Docker. So, the SonarQube is started from the Jenkins – all good here, but inside SonarQube we can see errors: java.lang.IllegalStateException: Unrecoverable indexation failures: 1 errors among 1 requests at org.sonar.server.es.IndexingListener$1.onFinish(IndexingListener.java:39) at org.sonar.server.es.BulkIndexer.stop(BulkIndexer.java:122) … And host… Read More »

Redis: fork – Cannot allocate memory, Linux, virtual memory and vm.overcommit_memory

28 August 2019
 

 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 »

AWS RDS: “SQLSTATE[22001] – Data too long for column” using MariaDB 10.2

8 August 2019
 

 We have a PHP-application with the AWS RDS MariaDB as a backend. On the previously used 10.0 version all was good, but right after we upgraded to the MariaDB 10.2 – got errors during tests: PDOException: SQLSTATE[22001]: String data, right truncated: 1406 Data too long for column ‘name’ at row 1 in /data/projects/projectname/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/db/Command.php:1290 The first… Read More »

AWS: S3 Cross-Region Replication with DeleteMarkers set up

17 July 2019
 

 At this moment I’m configuring a new CDN for our project. Will use CloudFront and Cloudflare here so need to create two dedicated buckets with different names – cdn.cfr.example.com => CloudFront and cdn.cfl.example.com => Cloudflare. To avoid coping data each time to both buckets – an AWS S3 Cross-Region Replication can be used, so data… Read More »

SonarQube: the “SCM provider autodetection failed” error

19 June 2019
 

 We have a fresh SonarQube installation (see details in the SonarQube: running tests from Jenkins Pipeline from Docker post). The issue But in its dashboard there is always an error: SCM provider autodetection failed. Please use “sonar.scm.provider” to define SCM of your project, or disable the SCM Sensor in the project settings. Also, it’s displayed… Read More »

SonarQube: running tests from Jenkins Pipeline in Docker

18 June 2019
 

 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 »

Jenkins: running PHPUnit from Codeception by a Pull Request in Github and Allure-reports

6 June 2019
 

 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 »

AWS: MariaDB RDS – kill: You are not owner of thread

14 May 2019
 

 We have AWS RDS with MariaDB. The error below and its solution aren’t specific to AWS RDS and MariaDB. The next error appears during attempt to kill() a thread in MySQL: [simterm] MariaDB [(none)]> kill 759; ERROR 1095 (HY000): You are not owner of thread 759 [/simterm] The solution is to use the mysql.rds_kill() procedure… Read More »