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How to Use the Sidecar Resource to Optimise Memory Footprint of Istio Sidecar
In a populous GKE cluster, I saw the memory utilisation getting very high. After some investigation, to my surprise, a great deal of memory was consumed by tiny Istio sidecars. And they are getting bloated round the clock. The Istio sidecar essentially is an envoy proxy configured by Istio controller – istiod. It’s usually light-weight,…
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Solved: Couldn’t Pick Correct Python Version in VS Code in Fedora Linux
TL; DR: The VS Code was installed via flatpak. I purged it and re-installed it the normal way then the problem went away 🙂
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An Admin-Only Python Decorator for Telegram Bots
TL; DR: Here’s a Python Decorator I wrote for Telegram Bots so certain commands can only be used by group admins.
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Solved: Blank Screen After Login in Gnome Shell 44
Background: I have an old desktop computer running Fedora 36 + Gnome Shell desktop environment and upgraded to 38 recently. It was used as an archive so I left it in garage and only connect to it vis SSH or VNC. Now I moved it into my home office because I think it can act…
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Terraform: String Manipulation for Default Domains
Imaging when I needed to grant access to a Google storage bucket for a list of Google service accounts, I put the list in YAML like this: Assuming horizon is the default GCP project and mass-effect is a partner project and most GSAs are of course from the default project. So can this list be…
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How to Replace Characters in MongoDB
TL; DR: As of MongoDB 6.0, this is how I learned to replace some characters in a field in all documents. In the example below all “.” characters in field_name will be replaced by “_” character: The backstory is when using MongoDB with MongoEngine, there’s an issue when a key in a dictionary field contains…
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How to Sort Lines in YAML
I asked myself this question and it turns out that I don’t need to write a script to do this, yq has the answer already. More on array sorting and map sorting 🙂
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Sample Terraform Code to Manage Temporary Access to GCP
TL; DR: This is a way to grant a temporary access to some GCP resources using Terraform’s time_static and google_project_iam_member resources. 🙂