AWS Using AWS SSM Parameter Store to Retrieve Secrets Encrypted by KMS using Python AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store provides secure storage for configuration data management and secrets management, which allows you to store sensitive iformation like passwords that you can encrypt with your KMS key. Today
Kubernetes Setup a 3 Node Kubernetes Cluster on Ubuntu Setup a 3 Node Kubernetes Cluster on Ubuntu 16.04 What is Kubernetes? As referenced from their website: "Kubernetes is an open-source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
Docker Guide to Setup Ranchers Convoy Volume Driver for Docker Swarm with NFS In this post we will setup Rancher's Convoy Storage Plugin with NFS, to provide data persistence in Docker Swarm. The Overview: This essentially means that we will have a NFS Volume, when the
KVM Setup a KVM Hypervisor on Ubuntu to Host Virtual Machines Today we will setup a KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) Hypervisor, where we can host Virtual Machines. In order to do so, your host needs to Support Hardware Virtualization. What we will be doing
Python Using getpass in Python to accept passwords from stdin without echoing it back Using raw_input in python expects standard input, which echo's it back after enter is executed, below is an example: >>> word = raw_input("What is the word? \n"
AWS Authenticate to your AWS RDS MySQL Instance via IAM On Amazon Web Services with RDS for MySQL or Aurora with MySQL compatibility, you can authenticate to your Database instance or cluster using IAM for database authentication. The benefit of using this authentication
NFS Setup a NFS Server on Ubuntu Quick post on how to setup a NFS Server on Ubuntu and how to setup a mount point on the client side to interact with the NFS Server. Server Side: In this post
Networking Setup a Site to Site IPSec VPN with Strongswan on Ubuntu Today we will setup a Site to Site ipsec VPN with Strongswan, which will be configured with PreShared Key Authentication. After our tunnels are established, we will be able to reach the private
AWS API Gateway with Lambda using Python on AWS to Post info to Rocketchat Today we will setup a API Gateway which has a Lambda Function, written in Python which we will setup using the AWS CLI What we will be doing: We will setup an API
Concourse Setup a Concourse CI Server on Ubuntu 16 Concourse is a Pipeline Based Continious Integration system written in Go Resources: https://concourse.ci/ https://github.com/concourse/concourse https://concourse.ci/hello-world.html https://github.com/starkandwayne/concourse-tutorial What is Concourse
Docker Create a Docker Persistent MySQL Service backed by NFS Docker Containers are stateless, if you want a persistent service like MySQL I always recommend having your database services outside the swarm, but if you need to look at Persistent Storage, there's a
RaspberryPi Setup a NFS Server and Client on the Raspberry Pi Setup a NFS Server/Client on the RaspberryPi 3 Setup the Server Side - Disks and Directories Prepare the directories: $ sudo mkdir -p /opt/nfs $ sudo chown pi:pi /opt/nfs $ sudo chmod
GlusterFS Adding Bricks to your GlusterFS Volume to Increase Storage Capacity So you've reached a point where you have run out of storage and you need to scale or allocate more storage to your GlusterFS Volume. Previous Posts: From our GlusterFS Series we have
GlusterFS Replace Faulty Bricks in GlusterFS Previous Posts: From our GlusterFS Series we have covered the following: GlusterFS: Distributed Replicated Volume GlusterFS: Distributed Storage Volume GlusterFS: Replicated Storage Volume GlusterFS: Adding Bricks to your Volume GlusterFS: Replace Faulty Bricks
GlusterFS Setup a GlusterFS Distributed Replicated Volume Today we will setup a Distributed-Replicated GlusterFS Volume. Previous Posts: From our GlusterFS Series we have covered the following: GlusterFS: Distributed Replicated Volume GlusterFS: Distributed Storage Volume GlusterFS: Replicated Storage Volume GlusterFS: Adding
DevOps Deploy an EC2 Instance with Terraform Today we will test out Terraform and do a Basic Deployment by Launching an EC2 Instance on Amazon Web Services. What is Terraform: As described from their website: "Terraform enables you to
AWS Amazon Web Services Releases Elasticsearch VPC Support AWS have recently announced VPC Support for Amazons Elasticsearch Service, which is a big win! The official announcement: https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2017/10/amazon-elasticsearch-service-announces-support-for-amazon-virtual-private-cloud-vpc/ Elasticsearch Private IP Based Authorization: This
AWS Your First Python Lambda Function on AWS Using the AWS CLI Tools Your first Lambda function on AWS with Python using the AWS CLI. Today we will use the AWS CLI Tools to create a Basic Lambda Function that will use the requests library to
MongoDB MongoDB Examples with the Mongo Shell In this post we will go through some basic examples on how to write, read, update and delete data with MongoDB using the Mongo Shell. Pre-Requisites: You will need to have a running
MongoDB Backup and Restore Mutliple Collections From a Database With MongoDB From a previous post we've Setup a 3 Node MongoDB Replica Set Cluster, and in this post we will go through the steps of backing up a database and restoring it to another
MongoDB Setup a 3 Node MongoDB Replica Set on Ubuntu 16 Today we will setup a 3 Node Replica Set for MongoDB on Ubuntu 16. A Replica Set is a form of data replication, so that your data resides on more than one node
Python Building a Search Engine for our Scraped Data on Elasticsearch Part 2 In Part 1, we Scraped this website for data and ingested it into elasticsearch. In this post, we will build the search engine frontend, that we will use to search for blog posts.
Elasticsearch Scraping Websites with Python and Beautiful Soup and Ingesting into Elasticsearch This will be a 2 post guide, where we will scrape this website on Page Title, URL and Tags, for blog posts, then we will ingest this data into Elasticsearch. - This Post
Docker Docker Stacks - Creating a Nodejs Hostname Application on Swarm Create a Nodejs Application that responds GET requests with its Hostname. We will be using Docker Swarm to create a Stack of our Nodejs application, which will sit beind a HAProxy Load Balancer,
Python Using Python to Interact with the RocketChat API In my previous post we went throught the steps on how to get Rocket Chat up and running. Today we will go experiment Python and the RocketChat API using the rocket-python Installing the