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Fixed tracker-store’s CPU hogging issue on Arch Linux
I think it’s since when I updated Arch Linux a while ago the tracker-storeprocess has become CPU-hogging and it can drain the battery pretty quickly and turn my laptop into a heater. Obviously there are people experiencing this issue already, but most of them that I found were trying to disable the Gnome tracker. I’d…
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Nicer Deployment with Kubernetes
The default strategy to do rolling update in a Kubernetes deployment is to reduce the capacity of current replica set and then add the capacity to the new replica set. This probably means total processing power for the app could be hindered a bit during the deployment. I’m a bit surprised to find that the…
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Ansible, Packer and Configurations
I use Ansible as provisioner for Packer, to build AMIs to be used as a base image of our development environment. When Ansible is used by Packer, it’s not quite intuitive whether it’s using the same ansible.cfg when I run ansible-playbook command in a terminal. Here’s how to make sure Ansible in Packer session will…
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Don’t Panic When Kubernetes Master Failed
It was business as usual when I was upgrading our Kubernetes cluster from 1.9.8 to 1.9.10, until it isn’t. From AWS console I can see the new instance for the master is running and the old one has been terminated. There’s 1 catch though, the IP yy.yy.yy.yy is not the IP of the new master…
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Run Google Lighthouse in Docker Container
Thanks to my Colleague Simon’s suggestion, I was introduced to Google Lighthouse, an opensource nodejs framework to use Google Chrome to audit a website’s performance. I like Lighthouse because: opensource good portability can run as CLI command or as a nodejs module Here’s a sample Dockerfile to have a container ready to run Lighthouse with…
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Use Python to Check Difference between Directories Recursively
I needed to track differences between software release packages, so that if anything changed dramatically, eg. some file missing or much smaller than expected, I can then get a notification to review the new potentially flawed package. I found that filecmp.dircmp class in Python is spot on for this job. Here’s my snippet to compare…
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Upload Limit in Kubernetes Nginx Ingress Controller
According to https://github.com/nginxinc/kubernetes-ingress/issues/21#issuecomment-408618569, this is how to lift the upload limit in Nginx Ingress Controller for Kubernetes after recent update to the project: apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1 kind: Ingress metadata: name: test-project-ingress namespace: test-project-dev annotations: kubernetes.io/ingress.class: dev nginx.ingress.kubernetes.io/proxy-body-size: 200m spec: rules: – host: test-project.dev.com http: paths: – path: / backend: serviceName: test-project servicePort: 80 And for now…
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Auto Scaling in Kubernetes 1.9
I updated my Kubernetes cluster from 1.8 to 1.9 recently, the upgrade process is very smooth, however the auto-scaling part seemed to be failing. Below are some notes on how I troubleshoot this issue. First to ensure I have both kops and kubectl upgraded to 1.9 on my laptop: Install kubectl 1.9: curl -LO https://storage.googleapis.com/kubernetes-release/release/v1.9.10/bin/linux/amd64/kubect…