A Technical I.T./DevOps Blog
Problem scenario
You want to use Git in an Azure Repository. What do you do?
Prerequisites
You have a Linux VM with Git installed.
Procedures
1. Log into Azure.
2. Go to https://dev.azure.com/
3. Click on “New Project”
4. Enter a project name. For your first project, you should probably have “Project visibility” set to “Private.”
5.
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Problem scenario
You want to deploy the Spring framework with Docker. How do you do this?
Solution
Warning: The last step in this is not a security “recommended practice.” Only follow these directions (with sudo docker run…), if the server is not that important or you are in a very secure network. One published book says you can use “sudo docker …” as long as the server is not in production (page 43 of Docker Up and Running).
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Problem scenario
You have a multi-node Hadoop cluster running Hadoop version 3. You run this command: hdfs dfsadmin -report
You receive an error that includes this message: “failed on connection exception: java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused; “
What should you do?
Potential Solution
Run these three commands:
bash /usr/local/hadoop/sbin/stop-dfs.sh
hdfs namenode -format
bash /usr/local/hadoop/sbin/start-dfs.sh
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Question
What is a Secret in Kubernetes?
Answer
It is a ConfigMap with sensitive data that is encoded in Base64 text. What is a ConfigMap? It is a .yaml with a special format. There is always a “data:” section that is part of the YAML definition of a ConfigMap. The key-value pairs in the “data” section will have keys that appear in regular text;
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Problem scenario
You run this command: kubectl get svc
You receive this:
” could not get token: NoCredentialProviders: no valid providers in chain. Deprecated.
For verbose messaging see aws.Config.CredentialsChainVerboseErrors”
What should you do?
Solution
Install and configure the AWS CLI. If you need assistance with this, see this posting.
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Question
In Kubernetes you have heard of these things: service, deployment, HPA, pod, ingress, secret, configmap, and node. What are they?
Answer
Click on the relevant question for its answer:
What is a Secret in Kubernetes?
What is a ConfigMap in Kubernetes?
What is a Deployment in Kubernetes?
What is an Ingress Resource in Kubernetes?
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Problem scenario
You want to use Azure’s Kubernetes PaaS offering using the GUI. What do you do?
Solution
1. Sign into the Azure portal.
2. Click on “Services” on the left.
3. Click on “Containers”.
4. Click on “Kubernetes services”.
5. Click “Add”.
6. Fill out the required fields.
7. Click the “Review + create” button.
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Question
AWS’s Five Pillars of Well-Architected Framework recommend monitoring as a component of three of the pillars (operational excellence, reliability and performance efficiency).
There is no question that monitoring is important inside or outside of a public cloud. What patterns or traits might a good centralized monitoring system have (consistent with some phrase as “best practices”)?
Answer
Here are 15 characteristics of good monitoring.
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Problem scenario
Sometimes you have a web service listening on the loop back IP address on a non-standard port.
When you run nmap -Pn localhost, you see a service is listening on a given port (e.g., 9200). When you run nmap -Pn on an internal or external IP address, you do not see a service listening on that given port. You want to direct traffic to this listening service (e.g.,
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Problem scenario
You have heard of the immutable bit and want to know how it is different from the sticky bit. What is the immutable bit versus the sticky bit? What are the differences between the two?
Solution
We like the term “immutable flag” as opposed to “immutable bit” to help distinguish the two. We have three parts to explain this.
Part 1: What is the immutable flag?
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