Stevens Tech Corner

List the IP Address of Azure Load Balancers

Today I was tasked with inventorying assets and defining if they were involved with handling ePHI (electronic Personal Health Information). The challenge I was present was being given only the IP Address of the Load Balancer and the default name created by Azure - "kubernetes". Anyone working with large scale

Python

Import data into MySQL table with Python and MySQL

This script I created as a simple means to step through the files found in a directory and import them into a MySQL Table via a cron job. The files are placed into a specific directory by another task. Each file was compressed via tar with gzip and encrypted with

Ansible

Ansible in a Container

Performing the tasks below should take less than 5 minutes to complete. There are only 3 actual tasks to perform. Extra information is provided along the way for different levels of experience. This document expects that you have some basic understanding of Linux and command line experience. First you need

Cloud Custodian

Cloud Custodian in a Container

Using Capitol One Cloud Custodian in a container Continuing with my desire to containerize as many services as possible ... I created a container profile for Cloud Custodian [https://github.com/cloud-custodian] (c7n) and c7n-org that I use successfully every day. Both on my local machine and on deployed web servers.

AWS

Protecting your S3 data

How to protect your precious S3 data from being deleted Recently I worked on creating Cloud Custodian policies to maintain a Sandbox environment. In the course of development and testing an unexpected action occurred resulting in the deletion of multiple S3 Buckets. Here I will discuss ways to protect this

GitLab

CI/CD via GitLab and a Runner in Containers?

What I learned about configuring a GitLab Server with a Runner using Docker Containers It is important to note this document is for Proof of Concept testing. IT IS NOT meant as a go to for Production environments as the use of SSL (HTTPS) is not spoken of in this

Kubernetes

How to Download Logs from a Kubernetes Node for investigation

Recently I encountered an issue with a Kubernetes Cluster not routing to the Internet properly. It was first discovered by the Product Team during the execution of a Production Release. Pods were repeating the CrashLoopBackoff cycle. The logs revealed one of the containers was unable to establish a connection to