• openssl: How to check that a certificate matches a private key

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    If we try to install a certificate on a service but we install an incorrect private key, the service will fail, most likely, with some cryptic message. But, how do we make sure that a certificate has been generated using the correct private key? Checking the modulus of each one can help verifying this

    13/07/2021

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  • Failed build model due to couldn't auto-discover subnets: unable to discover at least one subnet

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    Using an ALB controller we might face the following error while creating Ingress objects:

    $ kubectl describe ingress pet2cattle -n pet2cattle
    Name:             pet2cattle
    Namespace:        pet2cattle
    Address:          
    Default backend:  default-http-backend:80 (<error: endpoints "default-http-backend" not found>)
    Rules:
      Host                        Path  Backends
      ----                        ----  --------
      admin-site.pet2cattle.com  
                                  /   ssl-redirect:use-annotation (<error: endpoints "ssl-redirect" not found>)
                                  /   pet2cattle:http (10.103.202.36:9000)
    Annotations:                  alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/actions.ssl-redirect:
                                    {"Type": "redirect", "RedirectConfig": { "Protocol": "HTTPS", "Port": "443", "StatusCode": "HTTP_301"}}
                                  alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/group.name: pet2cattle
                                  alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/listen-ports: [{"HTTP":80},{"HTTPS":443}]
                                  alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/scheme: internal
                                  alb.ingress.kubernetes.io/target-type: ip
                                  kubernetes.io/ingress.class: alb
                                  meta.helm.sh/release-name: pet2cattle
                                  meta.helm.sh/release-namespace: pet2cattle
    
    Events:
      Type     Reason            Age                 From     Message
      ----     ------            ----                ----     -------
      Warning  FailedBuildModel  16m (x19 over 38m)  ingress  Failed build model due to couldn't auto-discover subnets: unable to discover at least one subnet
    

    This message is telling us that the ALB controller is no able to find the subnets of the requested type. We will have to check the following:

    12/07/2021

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  • CLI tool to retrieve CloudWatch logs

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    Using the awslogs cli tool we can query groups, streams and events from Amazon CloudWatch logs. It also has a human-friendly format for time-filtering

    It's available as using pip so to install it we just need to run:

    pip install awslogs
    

    09/07/2021

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  • Push to a remote branch that already exists locally

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    In cas we need to have multiple remote repositories it's branches names are likely to clash. A clear example it the master branch. How can we switch between branches from remote repositories if they have the same name?

    08/07/2021

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  • netstat and ss alternative to get the list of listening TCP ports

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    On docker containers we might not have neither netstat nor ss installed, yet we can still get the list of listening TCP ports by looking at the /proc filesystem

    07/07/2021

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