Intro Prometheus is an open source project that is part of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation(CNCF). It serves as a monitoring system and time series database. The project was second to be part of CNCF after Kubernetes. As such the two project play really nicely with one another. In…
Intro So I've been using Sumologic for a while now. Its a great way to get up and running with centralised log monitoring very quickly. No need to install and maintain an ELK cluster. Just sign up and start throwing it logs and configure your dashboards! Lately I had a…
Intro So creating a new K8s cluster on AWS is easy as ever with Kops. It can help you save a lot of time, help you in setting up your autoscaling groups and HA config, as well as help you with maintaining central versioned cluster config. We'll go through setting…
Introduction OpenSSL is a library that provides cryptographic functionality, specifically SSL/TLS for popular applications such as secure web servers. When going for that A+ on Qualys SSL labs, you most proberly want to complie your own OpenSSL. We'll go through doing that. Requirements This is going to be Fedora…
Working behind a proxy is always a bit of a pain. Luckly if you are doing so work with Docker behind a proxy you've come to the right place. Below steps should allow your docker instance to shot out to the internet to get images. Note, I will go about…
