Sync LDAP Data To GitHub Account To Manage User Access Permissions — Github is a provider of Internet hosting for software development and version control using Git. It enables us to host git repositories on the cloud and manage the access control for these repositories. Unfortunately, there is no native integration with the LDAP server as a source of the authorization data. …

Build, maintain, and control Helm chart releases with fewer bugs and code issues — Kubernetes is an orchestration tool for running, automating, and managing the lifecycle of containerized applications. All resources managed by Kubernetes need to be defined in YAML or JSON format and processed by the Kubernetes API server. Deploying applications with Kubernetes usually requires defining multiple resources (this highly depends on the…

Manage public access to services behind Nginx ingress controller per endpoint Securing access to development and testing environments is a vital issue that needs to be considered during the creations of these environments especially when working with cloud-native tools and providers (it is very common and easy to end up…

Plan for software service migration and make it through with zero downtime and incidents — Introduction The term Legacy Migration is used widely in the technical world to describe the process of migrating the software stack, infrastructure, or software architecture from one state to another one. Some of the common use cases that can be described by the term Legacy Migration are listed below: Migrating from…

Manage SSL certificate orders in K8s with Helm and Let’s Encrypt — Security is becoming more important than ever and needs to be integrated with any technical solution — even for testing environments. One of the most popular techniques is to use HTTPS protocol with SSL certificates instead of using the plain HTTP protocol. This technique provides us with two main benefits: …

Parsing Heroku’s logs and split them into multiple FleunetD messages — “Fluentd is a cross-platform open-source data collection software project originally developed at Treasure Data. It is written primarily in the Ruby programming language.” — Wikipedia In my previous blog posts, I explained how to use FluentD to parse and ship logs to a centralized logging server (EFK stack), Parse multi-line…

Define and control the way you ship software applications to production — Stability and governance are among the hottest topics that should be handled in any software development process. Both topics need to be addressed from the development stage to the deployment and running stages in the production environment. One of the processes or techniques that can help in mastering software development…

Manage Docker Swarm and Docker Compose deployments with GitHub Actions — There are plenty of continuous integration and delivery tools that can be used to run CI/CD pipelines, such as Jenkins, Travis CI, and CircleCI. When it comes to projects hosted on GitHub, there is another native option available, which is GitHub workflows. GitHub workflows can be used to achieve several…

Extract key-value pairs from log lines using the FluentD parser — “Fluentd is a cross-platform open-source data collection software project originally developed at Treasure Data. It is written primarily in the Ruby programming language.” — Wikipedia In my previous blog posts, I explained how to use FluentD to parse and ship logs to a centralized logging server (EFK stack), Parse multi-line…