Ansible ships with a massive collection of built-in modules; these modules are pretty good in doing their job, cover most of the scenarios, have good documentation, and have a very reliable community backing them. If you wish to see the list or count of the inbuilt modules ansible provides, you can run the ansible-doc -l […]
This post is will provide steps to add a new node to the Kubernetes cluster using Kubespray. The below snippet shows the existing node in the cluster, note that I have one master and two worker nodes. kubectl get node -o wide NAME STATUS ROLES AGE VERSION INTERNAL-IP EXTERNAL-IP OS-IMAGE KERNEL-VERSION CONTAINER-RUNTIME kube-master Ready control-plane,master
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In this post, the method to remote SSH into a Linux machine is covered. This is especially helpful when you do not wish to open any Port open in your ISP-provided Router configuration. Using this method, you can SSH into your home machine from any computer on the internet. You would not need any fancy
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In one of my Linux node, I was not able to use curl command if executed by a particular user(“root”). Strange enough, it was working when executed using some other user. If you face similar issue try to follow the following strategy to debug the issue: When executed with non-root User: curl google.com -I HTTP/1.1
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Guacamole is an open-source and client-less remote desktop solution. By client-less, it means that a user does not need to install any additional client software(like vncviewer, windows RDP) on the local machine to remote login into the remote machine. Instead, Guacamole uses HTML5 to remote login to the remote device on any browser. However, if
Countless predators are sitting in the wild to spam or attack the network. So sometimes, before trusting a random IP address on the Internet, it’s a good idea to check its reputation. There are multiple methods to check the details and reputation of an IP address, but here we are covering only one via “www.abuseipdb.com.”
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Like listing the directories and files using the “ls” command, we can list hardware in the system using the “lshw” command. Various filters are available to filter the result of the “lshw” command based on the type of hardware, like disk, processor, etc. Please see the below examples and follow along. Note that to use
Resources like CPU, Memory, Disk are critical for the performance of the node and the pods(containers) running on it. You can read a detailed post about these resources here. In this post, we will cover the commands for printing the resources in a short and meaningful format. A concise yet meaningful format is helpful for
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This post will discuss Kubernetes Resources, Requests, and Limits. In the Kubernetes cluster, the scheduler chooses the best node to place a pod. To decide the best node, the scheduler makes decisions based on the availability of the resources like CPU, RAM, etc., on all the nodes. Then, the scheduler would place the Pod on
In this post, we will run a security scan on a Kubernetes cluster using Kubescape. Some time back, NSA has released the Kubernetes cluster hardening guide; this guide provides several DOs and DON’TS. The problem is manually running the guide and testing the cluster for each recommendation is a big task. Here comes the need
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