Tag Archives: SSL

AWS: disable TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 for Application LoadBalancer

27 September 2021

If check any of a freshly created AWS Application LoadBalancer with a certificate from the AWS Certificate Manager, and with an HTTPS Listener’s default settings you’ll see the B grade: The main point of the SSL Labs is the support of the deprecated encryption versions – TLS 1.0 and 1.1. AWS LoadBalancer SecurityPolicy and TLS… Read More »

Let’s Encrypt: SSL and the “SERVFAIL looking up CAA for domain.com” error

29 July 2021

One of mine website stopped working with the “Connection reset.” error. NGINX configs seem to be correct, and other sites on the same server are working. NGINX also gave nothing, no errors, PHP-FPM also are good. Let’s check the website with the curl: [simterm] $ curl -Iv https://example.setevoy.org.ua/ * Trying 139.59.205.180:443… * Connected to example.setevoy.org.ua… Read More »

Istio: external AWS Application LoadBalancer and Istio Ingress Gateway

22 April 2021

In the previous post, Istio: an overview and running Service Mesh in Kubernetes, we started Istion io AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service and got an overview of its main components. The next task is to add an AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) before Istio Ingress Gateway because Istio Gateway Service with its default type LoadBalancer creates… Read More »

Linux: LEMP set up – NGINX, PHP, MySQL, SSL, monitoring, logs, and a WordPress blog migration

6 November 2020

Finally got time to migrate the RTFM.CO.UA blog to a new server with Debian 10. This time manually, without any automation will set up a LEMP stack Wrote a similar at 2016 – Debian: установка LEMP — NGINX + PHP-FPM + MariaDB (Rus), but in time the post is more complete of the process and… Read More »

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

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 »

AWS: RDS Certificate Authority SSL certificate upgrade

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 »

Okta: the Custom domain and TLS configuration

4 October 2019

You can use your own domain configured for Okta. The one thing worth to mention here is the fact that Okta’s official plugin doesn’t work with a Custom domain feature so you’ll have to use Okta’s URL for the plugin authentification, see the  documentation for details. Custom domain configuration Go to the Settings > Customization:… Read More »

OpenVPN: Let’s Encrypt DNS verification on AWS Route53 and OpenVPN Access Server SSL certificate auto update

24 May 2019

In addition to the OpenVPN: SSL and hostname configuration post about OpenVPN Access Server, set up and configuration. So, three months passed and it’s time to renew Let’s Encrypt SSL certificate (see. Prometheus: Alertmanager и blackbox-exporter — проверка срока действия SSL и нотификация в Slack, Rus). I could use a well-know for me scheme with… Read More »

Bitwarden: an organization’s password manager self-hosted version installation on an AWS EC2

1 May 2019

We consider Bitwarden as a passwords keeper for our project with the main goal to have an ability to have separated access to secrets by user roles and/or ACLs. I.e. Pass or KeePass are good for self-usage by one person but they have no main things – a normal web-interface and role-based access to data.… Read More »

TestRail: QA Test Case Management installation on Linux

22 March 2019

TestRail – Test Case Management Software for QA and Development Teams. Well – that’s all needed as a description) Below – its installation on Debian Linux with NGINX, Let’s Encrypt, PHP-FPM, MariaDB, and Exim. Project’s homepage – www.gurock.com/testrail Installation official documentation – here>>>. Setup will be on an AWS EC2. LEMP and SSL Login to… Read More »