Category Archives: Virtualization

In computing, virtualization refers to the act of creating a virtual version of something, including virtual computer hardware platforms, storage devices, and computer network resources.

Kubernetes: running metrics-server in AWS EKS for a Kubernetes Pod AutoScaler
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15 February 2020

Assuming, we already have an AWS EKS cluster with worker nodes. In this post – we will connect to a newly created cluster, will create a test deployment with an HPA – Kubernetes Horizontal Pod AutoScaler and will try to get information about resources usage using kubectl top. Kubernetes cluster Create a test cluster using… Read More: Kubernetes: running metrics-server in AWS EKS for a Kubernetes Pod… »

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Kubernetes: ConfigMaps and Secrets on a Gorush server example
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14 February 2020

We have a Gorush server from the Kubernetes: running a push-server with Gorush behind an AWS LoadBalancer post, and I’d like to ad an ability to configure it via a Github repository and run it with a different set of settings – for Staging and Production environments. Let’s use Kubernetes ConfigMap to store a config-file… Read More: Kubernetes: ConfigMaps and Secrets on a Gorush server example0 (0) »

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Kubernetes: ConfigMap and Secrets – data auto-reload in pods
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13 February 2020

W have a ConfigMap for our Gorush service (see the Kubernetes: running a push-server with Gorush behind an AWS LoadBalancer post). The issue is that if change a value in this ConfigMap or Secrets -it will not be applied to already running pods. There are various solitons like mount data as volumes and re-attach those… Read More: Kubernetes: ConfigMap and Secrets – data auto-reload in pods0 (0) »

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Debian: php7.3-curl : Depends: libcurl3 (>= 7.44.0) but it is not installable
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23 January 2020

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: Debian: php7.3-curl : Depends: libcurl3 (>= 7.44.0) but it is… »

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Nextcloud: running in Docker Compose on Debian with Let’s Encrypt SSL
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30 November 2019

I while ago I’d tested the Nextcloud, see the NextCloud: installing server on Debian behind NGINX with PHP-FPM and client on Arch Linux post. In general, it looks good, so it’s time to try to run in a production environment and finally migrate from Dropbox to it. Today, let’s spin up a Nextcloud instance using… Read More: Nextcloud: running in Docker Compose on Debian with Let’s Encrypt… »

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AWS: RDS Certificate Authority SSL certificate upgrade
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22 November 2019

We started receiving emails from AWS with notifications to update RDS Certificate Authority certificates. It’s time to do it, so let’s start from our Dev, then will repeat on Staging and Production environments. W eare using common AWS RDS MariaDB instances, and the upgrade documentation is available here>>>. The process itself is really simple and… Read More: AWS: RDS Certificate Authority SSL certificate upgrade0 (0) »

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dnsmasq: AWS – “Temporary failure in name resolution”, logs, debug and dnsmasq cache size
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28 October 2019

We are using AWS VPC DNS and sometimes facing with errors like “php_network_getaddresses: getaddrinfo failed: Temporary failure in name resolution“. The only advice from AWS tech. support was to configure a local dnsmasq service to act as a local DNS cache, but I did this already year ago and this issue happens once in 1-2-3… Read More: dnsmasq: AWS – “Temporary failure in name resolution”, logs, debug… »

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AWS: Redshift – quick start and SQL-workbench connection config
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18 October 2019

Our data-analytics team eventually started to play with an AWS Redshift cluster instead of the MariaDB RDS service. Actually, the current task is to spin up a simple Proof of Concept Redshift’s cluster in the AWS. Let’s do it quickly, without details – if this will go to the Production, I’ll add another post with… Read More: AWS: Redshift – quick start and SQL-workbench connection config0 (0) »

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Vertica: a simple cluster set up and configuration on AWS EC2
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10 October 2019

Vertica is a data warehouse solution intended to store petabytes amount of data. The task, for now, is to spin up a kind of Proof of Concept for Vertica on an AWS EC2 to take a closer look at its setup and to give it to data-analytics to play with it a bit. Vertica has… Read More: Vertica: a simple cluster set up and configuration on AWS… »

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