Ansible: get a target host’s IP
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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: Ansible: get a target host’s IP0 (0) »

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Atom: useful plugins
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8 April 2019

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: Atom: useful plugins0 (0) »

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MySQL/MariaDB: like Petya ransomware for MySQL and ‘root’@’%’ access
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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 shocked.… Read More: MySQL/MariaDB: like Petya ransomware for MySQL and ‘root’@’%’ access0 (0) »

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Redis: Can’t open the log file: Read-only file system
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3 April 2019

Have a new Redis service which has to run alongside with one already existing During starting this new service – it fails with the Can’t open the log file: Read-only file system error, although /var/log and log file itself have correct permissions. The root cause was not very obvious so in this post – its… Read More: Redis: Can’t open the log file: Read-only file system0 (0) »

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

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

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Redis: replication, part 2 – Master-Slave replication, and Redis Sentinel
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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 2 – Master-Slave replication, and Redis Sentinel0… »

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

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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: Jenkins: your Jenkins data directory is almost full and automated… »

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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: Kubernetes: running Minikube on Arch Linux0 (0) »

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