I was looking for a simple project to get my hands dirty with Go again and I came up with the HTTP proxy server. At a first glance, it seems a trivial project: create an HTTP server read the HTTP method, the URL, and the HOST from the request send an identical request to the target server.
A Kubernetes operator is an extension of Kubernetes that allows to use custom resources to manage applications and their components. Writing a proper Kubernetes operator from scratch isn’t a trivial task. For this reason, there exists SDKs and frameworks that take care of boiler plate code and allow developers to focus on the business logic. However, if y...
This post is a report of my troubleshooting process of docker daemon.
Often some tests of a Go package need to interact with another system. You can mock it but at a certain point, the tests should run against a real system located at a certain address, using a some credentials, and so on. The real system has some parameters that should not be hardcoded because they are ephemeral or because is not safe. To customize these p...
Integer limits and Golang specification for constant expressions
Changing the Service type from NodePort to LoadBalancer and viceversa is useful depending on the cluster you are working on. If you are doing experiments in a local development cluster, like Kind, you don’t have a real load balancer in front of your cluster and you need to expose your services externally using a NodePort service. On contrary, if you are w...
Removing building and debugging tools from the images we use to run services on containers is one of the security best practices. However, you can’t debug a container if it is not shipped with the debugging tools. Security and easy of debug seems to mutual exclusive but Kubernetes provides a solution: ephemeralContainers. As the name suggests, they are ep...
A Kubernetes operator is an extension of Kubernetes that allows to use custom resources to manage applications and their components. Writing a proper Kubernetes operator from scratch isn’t a trivial task. For this reason, there exists SDKs and frameworks that take care of boiler plate code and allow developers to focus on the business logic. However, if y...
Kyverno is a policy engine designed specifically for Kubernetes. It is based on validanting and mutating webhooks that intercept resources before they are created. This post will show how to troubleshoot Kyverno and it will dive into Kyverno resources when it seems that your policy is not applied.
In Kubernetes the infrastructure that runs an application is described by some YAML manifests. While application source code is tested with additional code written almost always in the same language, manifest describing the architecture are almost never tested. It means that changes in the manifests affect immediately the infrastructure.
Terraform workspaces are a feature of some backends to associate many terraform states to the same configuration. It is convenient to have a workspace where you can try changes to infrastructure. When the changes have been tested, you can switch to the production workspace and apply the changes.
Terraform language provides the for_each meta-argument to create many resources from a key-value data structure. However, if not used properly, the for_each meta-argument can produce unexpected results.
Infrastructure code is considered 100% code but often good software principle, like testing, are not applied. Apart from checking the correctness of code, testing documents how code should behave, as well. In this post I will show how to test a Terraform module using the Python module tftest along with the testing framework pytest.
Once the instances are provisioned to AWS using a Terraform script, I need to configure them using Ansible. To tell Ansible the remote targets to configure, I wrote an inventory file that lists the IP addresses and the hostnames. Each time I created the AWS sandbox, the IP addresses changed and I needed to copy-paste them on the inventory file. Since this...
In this weekly post I explored how Cloudfare devs debug network applications and IPFS as a solution to hyper-centralized Internet.
How to test code coverage in a C/C++ project, what is IPFS, QUIC. Few words but extremely interesting topics.
First weekly newsletter of 2021 about Facebook outage, learning tips, raw sockets in Linux, and CoAP protocol.
AWS EC2 instances can be initialized easily at startup using a custom script in the user_data field. Our instances will be ready to use and have all tools installed. It is a great advantage when the initialization script is easy, because we don’t need to use separate tool like Ansible. However, user_data can be tricky because it is not so friendly to debu...
I was following the ACloudGuru tutorial to setup a web server with httpd on a EC2 instance and a AWS Cognito Identity Pool.
Few months ago I wrote a REST API service with Go and the Gin Web Framework that performs basic CRUD operations on PostgreSQL database. I was using it through curl and Postman but I wanted the freedom to call the API from every device and location. So, I needed a web page to make HTTP requests from a smartphone as well and a machine running 24/7.
This post shows how to mock one or more Python functions for unit testing.
In Kubernetes the infrastructure that runs an application is described by some YAML manifests. While application source code is tested with additional code written almost always in the same language, manifest describing the architecture are almost never tested. It means that changes in the manifests affect immediately the infrastructure.
Infrastructure code is considered 100% code but often good software principle, like testing, are not applied. Apart from checking the correctness of code, testing documents how code should behave, as well. In this post I will show how to test a Terraform module using the Python module tftest along with the testing framework pytest.
This post shows how to mock one or more Python functions for unit testing.
Infrastructure code is considered 100% code but often good software principle, like testing, are not applied. Apart from checking the correctness of code, testing documents how code should behave, as well. In this post I will show how to test a Terraform module using the Python module tftest along with the testing framework pytest.
This post talks about different methods to bootstrap Kyverno on Kubernetes using ArgoCD:
This post talks about an ArgoCD feature that allows to select which namespaces are allowed to host ArgoCD Applications belonging to the same project.
Boredom is the the first ctf of binary exploitation. It provides a source file boredom.c and a binary file boredom.
I was implementing a template function inside a class. As usual, I wrote the prototype in .h file and the definition in a .cpp file. This templated method is then called in other part of the software. When I hit the compile button, the compiler complained about an undefined reference where I called the template function.
Very often happens that I start versioning some software locally and I push it remotely later :octocat:. When I decide it is the moment to keep the code safe and sound on Github, the procedure to merge a local-only repository to a fresh remote repository is not straight forward.
For the Microsoft Azure Trial Hackathon on DEV I created a web application to basically perform CRUD operations on a Azure SQL Database. The source code is hosted on GitHub and I decided to use GitHub Actions to create a CICD pipeline.
For the Microsoft Azure Trial Hackathon on DEV I created a web application to basically perform CRUD operations on a Azure SQL Database. The source code is hosted on GitHub and I decided to use GitHub Actions to create a CICD pipeline.
Few months ago I wrote a REST API service with Go and the Gin Web Framework that performs basic CRUD operations on PostgreSQL database. I was using it through curl and Postman but I wanted the freedom to call the API from every device and location. So, I needed a web page to make HTTP requests from a smartphone as well and a machine running 24/7.
I was following the ACloudGuru tutorial to setup a web server with httpd on a EC2 instance and a AWS Cognito Identity Pool.
This post is a report of my troubleshooting process of docker daemon.
Kyverno is a policy engine designed specifically for Kubernetes. It is based on validanting and mutating webhooks that intercept resources before they are created. This post will show how to troubleshoot Kyverno and it will dive into Kyverno resources when it seems that your policy is not applied.
This post talks about three basic features that you need when writing basic makefiles:
A Kubernetes operator is an extension of Kubernetes that allows to use custom resources to manage applications and their components. Writing a proper Kubernetes operator from scratch isn’t a trivial task. For this reason, there exists SDKs and frameworks that take care of boiler plate code and allow developers to focus on the business logic. However, if y...