The 12 Factor way, is a general guideline that provides best practices when building applications. One of them is using environment variables to store application configuration. What will we be doing: In this post we will build a simple docker
Ruan Bekker
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Basic RESTFul API Server with Python Flask
A Basic RESTFul API Service with Python Flask. We will be using the Flask, jsonify and request classes to build our API service. Description of this demonstration: Our API will be able to do the following: Create, Read, Update, Delete
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 we will use Amazon Web Services SSM
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." Our Setup: For this setup I
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 service gets created on Docker Swarm, the
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 today: Check if your host supports Hardware
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") What is the word? football >>
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 method is that you don't need to
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