To access a database server, that has no public access (as it must be – access only inside an AWS VPC), Tableau suggests using its tool called Tableau Bridge. The idea is to have a Bridge service running in a network, which has access to a database server via its Private IP. Also, Bridge will… Read More »
Actually, this post was planned as a short note about using NodeAffinity for Kubernetes Pod: But then, as often happens, after starting writing about one thing, I faced another, and then another one, and as a result – I made this long-read post about Kubernetes load-testing. So, I’ve started about NodeAffinity, but then wondered how… Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
We have a bunch of the AWS RDS with MariaDB. Backend-developers asked me to enable slow requests logs so they can debug their application. So the task is: enable AWS RDS logging and configure export to the CloudWatch Logs for further analysis. As everything else – our RDS instances are configured via CloudFormation templates, so… Read More »