Ever seen this error when calling a kong endpoing or making an http request served by kong: HTTP/1.1 503 Service Temporarily Unavailable Connection: keep-alive Content-Length: 59 Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8 Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2019 08:08:01 GMT Server: kong/0.14.1 { “message”: “failure to get a peer from the ring-balancer” } What does it mean? It means […]
What do you do when you don’t want a caller of the api to know the connection credentials to a service on stackstorm? But also don’t want to have to set these variables in the environment when calling the action from a rule? You should use pack configuration Setup your Pack Config Schema You need […]
tl;dr: Use Hashicorp Vault Storing secrets among teams is important. There is a great blog on managing secrets and the things you shouldn’t do which I will highlight here: Using the same password for all the things! Using a shared excel file of secrets Emailing passwords around Using Chat to store secrets Using Git repos […]
Disclaimer: This post will not speak about creating and maintaining LXC clusters and networking. This post will introduce LXC/LXD and Terraform seperately, as they are independent things. Once you have enough information about what these things are, I will show you how to use them together. LXC The lightervisor LXC is linux containers. A System […]
NAP Africa – Non-Profit Internet Exchange view who is peering PeeringDB search for Teraco data centres – You can view information about the data centre, view the local internet exchanges and networks – autonomous system number – given a unique ASN is allocated to each AS for use in BGP routing, they control large blocks […]