How Do You Create an Issue for a Repository in a GitHub Organization the API?

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Problem scenario
You are running this command:

curl -u jdoe:$password -X PUT -d ‘{“title”: “Look at this bug”, “body”: “This is a serious problem here.”, “assignees”: [ “jdoe” ], “milestone”: 1, “labels”: [ “bug” ]}’ https://api.github.com/repos/$orgname/$reponame/issues

The message in the response you receive is “Not Found”. You found documentation that refers to an “owner” being in the URL. You see “POST /repos/:owner/:repo/issues” (with no reference to the organization).

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How Do You Create a GCP VM to Be a Web Server?

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Problem scenario
You have a GCP server. You can run curl commands to its URL via localhost. But with a URL constructed with the server’s external IP address the curl command times out. You cannot reach the URL from your workstation. How do you get the GCP server to present the web service to other machines?

Solution
Modify the firewall rule by following these steps below.

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How Do You Make a Web UI Service Accessible to Outside Web Browser Traffic?

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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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What is an Ingress Resource in Kubernetes?

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Question
What is an Ingress resource in Kubernetes?

Answer
It is a Kubernetes technique of exposing services via an individual IP address (page 135 of Kubernetes in Action by Luksa). In TCP/IP networking, the Ingress port allows inbound traffic to route somewhere. Kubernetes supports other IP address to service mapping methods (e.g., NodePort or LoadBalancer). NodePort operates on layer 4 of the OSI seven-layer model (according to this posting).

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How Do You Troubleshoot the ng Error “—–Mg: scratch (fundamental)—-All——————“?

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Problem scenario
You run this command ng –version, but you receive a blank screen at the terminal like this:

—–Mg: scratch (fundamental)—-All——————

What do you do?

Solution

1. Use “ctrl-z” to exit out.

2. Run these commands:

sudo apt remove ng-common
sudo npm uninstall -g @angular/cli
sudo npm install -g @angular/cli

3.

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How Do You Find the Port Number That GitLab’s Web UI Uses from the Back-end of a Linux Server?

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Problem scenario
You have an existing GitLab set up on a Linux server. You have access to the back-end. You want to find the port number to connect to. How do you do this?

Solution
First find the external IP address (e.g., curl icanhazip)

Second, install nmap (e.g., sudo yum -y install nmap or sudo apt-get -y install nmap).

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How Do You Set up Nginx as an HTTP Load Balancer for Other Instances of Nginx Running in Docker?

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Problem scenario
You have many Docker containers running Nginx.  You want to leverage these instances for users to go to one web site and then be automatically routed to different underlying Nginx instances in Docker containers.  How do you create a single website for web clients to go to with a reverse proxy balancing the load behind-the-scenes?

Solution
Overview
We accomplish an example with four Docker containers each using a free version of Nginx. 

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How Do You Set up Nginx as an HTTP Load Balancer So Client Requests (from Web Browsers) Go to Certain Nginx Servers More Frequently Than Others?

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Problem scenario
You have certain Nginx servers with ample resources whereas others have minimal resources.  Based on geographic locations and data center bandwidth locations and costs, you want to assign fractions of the web traffic from client workstations (requests from web browsers) to different Nginx servers more than others.  You do not want round-robin, equal distribution of traffic.  You want customized HTTP load balancing in accord with unequal configurations.  How do you distribute this traffic proportionately according to your desired specifications?

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