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GCP: global external HTTPS LB for securely exposing insecure VM services


Categories: Hyperscaler

If you have unmanaged GCP VM instances running services on insecure ports (e.g. Apache HTTP on port 80), one way to secure the public external traffic is to create an external GCP HTTPS load balancer. Conceptually, we want to expose a secure front to otherwise insecure services. While the preferred method would be to secure … GCP: global external HTTPS LB for securely exposing insecure VM services

SaltStack: Setting a jinja2 variable from an inner block scope


Categories: DevOps

When using jinja2 for SaltStack formulas you may be surprised to find that your global scoped variables do not have ability to be modified inside a loop.  Although this is counter intuitive given the scope behavior of most scripting languages it is unfortunately the case that a jinja2 globally scoped variable cannot be modified from … SaltStack: Setting a jinja2 variable from an inner block scope