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

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 »

Redis: Sentinel – bind 0.0.0.0, the localhost issue and the announce-ip option

10 April 2019
 

 Originally, in a Sentinel’s configs, I have used the bind 0.0.0.0 to make them accessible from external hosts. Because of this when I started rolling out this setup on a real environment faced with an issue when Sentinels could not determine a Master host and other Sentinel hosts. In this post – such an issue… Read More »

Ansible: get a target host’s IP

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 »

MySQL/MariaDB: like Petya ransomware for MySQL and ‘root’@’%’ access

3 April 2019
 

  This story happened on 10/06/2017, adding this post in English now. The original post (Rus) was written almost right after the well-known Not a Petya attack in Ukraine – that’s why it’s used in the title. I had a new project assigned to me. When I started its existing setup investigation – was just… Read More »

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

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 »

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

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 »

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

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 »

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

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 »