Tag_Archive: #Blog

· 8 min read

Salt water to Helm Chart's wheel

Flexible way to perform configuration management actions in the Helm chart’s. We uses years Salt, Chef, Ansible, …​ to do complex configuration steps, but when it came to implement a new feature in Helm Chart app folks once again tend to fall back to bash, curl and the Helm hell templates. TL;DR 🔗︎# My use-case is simple. I want to update Influxdb chart . and provide way to: create database … ... read more »

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Albania 2017

Three mens, one free week, roadtrip in Albania. Tirana, riviera, south and finally the transit Budapest. TL;DR 🔗︎# We planned the trip one week before we left. Albania is known for its raw nature, mountains, and coast. Visiting mountains in the north part at the mid of the October was not an option as the weather is colder and we wanted to travel light. We got nice recommendations from … ... read more »

· 5 min read

Salt NACL encryption for external pillars

This article is about encrypting Satl external pillars with NACL. TL;DR 🔗︎# Salt NACL is based on another SaltStack project libnacl , an wrapper for libsodium and Salt nacl resources (module , runner , renderer and ext_pillar ). Overview of merged features to develop branch: NACL module, runner (around 2015.x) NACL update with secretbox, sealedbox (around 2017/Aug) NACL render with boxed syntax … ... read more »

· 8 min read

Testing salt formulas and models with kitchen-salt

TL;DR# An overview how to implement salt-formula test's with kitchen-salt. Overview# In this article I will talk about writing and testing https://github.com/salt-formulas[salt-formulas ]. An curated collection of formulas behind salt-formulas community. The concepts however will fit to any salt formula. If you are interested in https://github.com/salt-formulas[salt-formulas ] read more at: … ... read more »

· 1 min read

Generate your .ssh/config

On ubuntu 16.04 is still an old version of OpenSSH client that don’t support include statement’s on it’s .ssh/config. I manage my dotfiles in git repos and one such is .ssh/config.d. The script below is capable take that repo as source and generate the configuration. ... read more »

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How i found hugo

As my Django site from 2006 or so went recently south I decided to to make it up from scratch. Original apealive.net website Even though I am now pretty solid in DevOps, applying it on low frequency used blog and keeping django running for years it’s overhead. I will rather spend that one with my kids. Sorry loved #django #python ;-(. On the other hand, during the time, I wrote few pages using … ... read more »

· 2 min read

Meeting our flat again

With feelings of "just" longer vacation we are back at home country. Adriana noted that it's cold and a minute later paced a question When this Europe vacation ends? Just for all our readers. We are in CR since 25.12. Since that time to Feb 06 we have been staying in our flat over night just for one night. Seems we are still live like an backpackers :-D. Sure there was couple of reasons … ... read more »