Porkbun is an ICANN accredited domain name registrar with value pricing and an API that allows domain record creation and updates, which makes it especially useful for scripting. This article assumes you already have an account, and have Porkbun managing at least one domain name.
Google Pub/Sub is a managed messaging platform providing a scalable, asynchronous, loosely-coupled solution for communication between application entities. It centers around the concept of a Topic (queue). A Publisher can put messages on the Topic, and a Subscriber can read messages from the Subscription on a Topic. In this article, I will first use the … GCP: publishing and reading from Google PubSub Topic using Python client libraries
The globally shared set of GitLab runners for CI/CD jobs works well for building binaries, publishing images, and reaching out to publicly available endpoints for services and infrastructure building. But the ability to run a private, self-managed runner can grant pipelines entirely new levels of functionality on several fronts: Can communicate openly to private, internal … GitLab: self-managed runner for CI/CD jobs on GCP VM instances
The forked workflow is popularized by the Open Source community where your personal contributions are made by having your own personal fork of a repository and pushing a GitLab Merge Request to a central repository. A GitLab Merge Request can be submitted from the web UI by clicking on “Merge requests” and manually selecting the … GitLab: generating URL that can be used for Merge Request from fork to upstream
GitHub has a feature that allows other members to follow your account and receive alerts on actions you take in any repository. Unfortunately, there is not a setting that allows you to disable this at a global level. The only workaround is to temporarily block the user, which removes the relationship. This can be done … GitHub: removing followers with the GitHub api
In a previous post, I described the Kubernetes Downward API and how it allows us to inject pod/container metadata into our runtime container. In this article, I’ll show how you can read the environment variables and mounted files from inside a containerized GoLang based application.
In a previous post, I described the Kubernetes Downward API and how it allows us to inject pod/container metadata into our runtime container. In this article, I’ll show how you can read the environment variables and mounted files from inside a containerized Python based application.
It is not uncommon to find an installation page where you are asked to download a packaged release from the github site. But even if you are using the “latest” alias to grab the most recent, you may still need to know the exact release tag for unzipping, configuration management, etc. Luckily, a simple query … Bash: Determining latest github release tag and version
The “cf app” command will provide a brief expansion of a buildpack’s settings, but does not provide an exact buildpack name. Luckily, this can easily be pulled using “cf curl” and the CloudFoundry API. Assuming you have the jq utility for parsing/querying json output: # set name of cloudfoundry app app=”my-cf-app” # using name, pull … CloudFoundry: Determining buildpack used by application
BOSH is a project that unifies release, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud based software. It also serves as the underlying infrastructure for deploying the CloudFoundry PaaS. In this article, I will lead you through deploying the BOSH Director to Amazon EC2 which is the first step in deploying both CloudFoundry CFAR as well as CFCR … CloudFoundry: Installing a BOSH Director on AWS
The Cloud Foundry CLI makes it easy to authenticate into a target API endpoint to consume the Cloud Controller API (CAPI). The “cf login” command allows you to pass or interactively provide the user, password, org, and space. Once logged in, if you want to run raw commands, the “cf curl” can execute a request … CloudFoundry: Authenticating and running CF API commands using curl
The open-source Zabbix monitoring solution has a REST API that provides the ability for deep integrations with your existing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems. This fosters development of community-driven modules like Ryan Day’s zabbix Go language package, which is an easy way to automate Zabbix tasks like creating hosts and manipulating other back end structures. One of the nice things … Zabbix: Zabbix REST API using a Go client
The open-source Zabbix monitoring solution has a REST API that provides the ability for deep integrations with your existing monitoring, logging, and alerting systems. This fosters development of community-driven modules like the py-zabbix Python module, which is an easy way to automate Zabbix as well as send/retrieve metrics.
Until Zabbix3, trend data was not available via the Zabbix API. This meant that you could retrieve the raw values of a key over time, but not the aggregated historical trends of that value (e.g. CPU average over 5 minute intervals). The only way to monitor trends was to look at the visual graph generated … Zabbix: Enabling API fetch of Trend data in Zabbix2