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Posts by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Kubectl exec: "Error from server (BadRequest): Upgrade request required"

Ok I got it working again. The issue was that I had updated my kubeconfig file, and the current-context setting had changed. This setting essentially selects which cluster kubectl targets. Now th...

posted 8mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A What is a .gitkeep file?

Sometimes there are empty files named .gitkeep sprinkled around a repository. What are these files?

1 answer  ·  posted 9mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 9mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Using an existing web server vs writing your own

When writing a dynamic web service, you broadly speaking have two paths: Use an existing web server (e.g. Apache, Nginx or Lighttpd) to handle the "raw" web requests and implement your own cod...

4 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Basile Starynkevitch‭

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Q&A How to use docker hub with podman?

Unlike docker, Podman won't (understandably) use docker hub by default. You can use it explicitly like this: (just using a random example here, it's an OpenAPI linter) podman pull docker.io/dshanl...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A What are the prefixes like "md:" and "ds:" in SAML metadata?

SAML service provider (and other types as well) metadata XMLs are full of prefixes like md: and ds:. What do these mean? To illustrate my point, here's a sample metadata file from Wikipedia (CC-BY...

1 answer  ·  posted 10mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 10mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A How to surround jinja expression with curly brackets?

A jinja template expression starts and ends with double curly brackets, which the templating engine consumes. But what if you need a single pair of curly brackets left in the output? Something lik...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 9mo ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Do the elements of 'required' array need to be defined in 'properties' dictionary in JSON schema?

In a JSON schema, do the required properties need to be a subset of properties? E.g. is this a valid schema, even though cookies isn't mentioned in properties? { "type": "object", "properti...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Tidy Ansible assert module loop output

Use the quiet parameter: - name: Assertions ansible.builtin.assert: that: - item quiet: true loop: "{{ loop_items }}" vars: loop_items: - true - true ...

posted 1y ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A What are the prefixes like "md:" and "ds:" in SAML metadata?

The prefixes are explained in saml-metadata-2.0-os spec in section 1.1: "Notation" Prefix Explanation saml: This is the SAML V2.0 assertion namespace [SAMLCore]. The prefix is gen...

posted 10mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by Michael‭

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Q&A Do the elements of 'required' array need to be defined in 'properties' dictionary in JSON schema?

According to my reading of the JSON Schema Spec, the answer is no. required array can contain elements which are not in the properties dictionary. The example schema in question seems to be valid....

posted 11mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A How to validate Ansible role dictionary argument's "additionalProperties"

Apparently there just isn't an equivalent of additionalProperties in Ansible. The way around this is to break the dictionary argument into a list of key/value pairs: argument_specs: main: ...

posted 1y ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A How to validate Ansible role dictionary argument's "additionalProperties"

In JSON Schema one can use the additionalProperties key to validate properties whose names are not know. You can still impose restrictions on their type. How to do this in an Ansible role argument...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A How to use Ansible extract filter in map with an external dictionary

Turns out I wasn't far off. The dictionary mustn't be quoted. So the following works: - name: Extraction test vars: dictionary: one: 1 two: 2 key_list: - one ...

posted 1y ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A How to use Ansible extract filter in map with an external dictionary

Ansible's extract filter is supposedly made for use in map, but at the time of writing the documentation doesn't actually show how to use it together with the map filter. The following outputs VAR...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A How to delete a local branch in git?

How to delete a local git branch which hasn't been pushed to anywhere, and only exists locally?

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Tidy Ansible assert module loop output

Looping in Ansible usually produces a neat output of one line per iteration (per host): ... ok: [Arch] => (item=something) ok: [Arch] => (item=something_else) ok: [Arch] => (item=yet_a...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 1y ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A What is the default port number of MariaDB?

What is the default port number of MariaDB database server? (Remembering defaults is surprisingly hard since usually you don't need to specify them..)

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Simplest way of getting failure notification emails from kubernetes

The simplest solution I managed to find is robusta. It still has a bunch of unnecessary features, but with the correct configuration it's possible to disable these. As a bonus, it nicely adds some...

posted 9mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Kubectl exec: "Error from server (BadRequest): Upgrade request required"

I'm getting an error when trying to open a shell to a pod. This used to work. $ kubectl exec --tty --stdin --namespace my-ns my-pod -- sh Error from server (BadRequest): Upgrade request required ...

1 answer  ·  posted 8mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A UID of nonroot user in distroless container images

Distroless images use a user called nonroot by convention. What's the UID (User ID) of this user? This is relevant in multi-stage image builds: FROM bash:latest as builder RUN adduser adduser ...

2 answers  ·  posted 7mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A UID of nonroot user in distroless container images

The UID of nonroot user is 65532. This is by convention. I failed to find a reputable source for this, but looking around image internals, it seems to hold.

posted 7mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A UID of nonroot user in distroless container images

You don't actually need the UID in that particular example. A more elegant solution would be to use the --chown option of the COPY directive. FROM bash:latest as builder RUN adduser adduser \ ...

posted 7mo ago by Iizuki‭

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Q&A Why not call nullptr NULL?

Probably just backwards compatibility with past C++ versions, where NULL = 0.

posted 2mo ago by Iizuki‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by Iizuki‭

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