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• Removing ASCII Colour Codes from Log Events In Logstash

  
  

  Wednesday, 08 July 2020

  Removing ASCII colour codes from log events in Logstash pipelines.

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• HashiCorp Vault LDAP Authentication and LDAP Groups

  
  

  Thursday, 07 November 2019

  Configuring HashiCorp Vault to provide LDAP authentication for users and applying Vault policies using LDAP group membership.

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• Deploying to AWS ECS using CloudFormation and Spot Instances

  
  

  Wednesday, 18 September 2019

  This article details the AWS CloudFormation building blocks to deploy a containerised application using the AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS).

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• Oh My ZSH on Windows WSL and Windows Terminal

  
  

  Thursday, 12 September 2019

  The steps I took to make Oh My ZSH work in the WSL and to display the Powerlevel9k for SSH sessions correctly.

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• AWS CloudFormation Logs to Slack

  
  

  Monday, 02 September 2019

  A Python AWS Lambda which delivers CloudFormation events to Slack created using the AWS SAM framework.

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• My Little Buildah and Podman Cheat Sheet

  
  

  Sunday, 04 August 2019

  My little buildah and podman cheat sheet. Some common commands and examples for using buildah and podman to build and run OCI containers without the docker daemon

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• Distributed Tracing with ASP .NET Core and Kubernetes + Istio + Jaeger

  
  

  Saturday, 03 August 2019

  A look at distributed tracing of an ASP .NET Core application (this website) running in Kubernetes using Istio and Jaeger.

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• Kubernetes in the Wild - Envoy proxy is NOT ready

  
  

  Saturday, 27 July 2019

  Kubernetes in the Wild - Envoy proxy is NOT ready: config not received from Pilot

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• Kubernetes in the Wild - Invalid option "reclaimPolicy"

  
  

  Tuesday, 16 July 2019

  Kubernetes in the Wild - Failed to provision volume with StorageClass "gp2-retain": invalid option "reclaimPolicy" for volume plugin kubernetes.io/aws-ebs

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• Backup the Cisco Expressway Using Python

  
  

  Wednesday, 26 June 2019

  A short how-to/script for backing up the Cisco Expressway using Python.

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