Automatically Backup Alibaba MySQL using Grandfather-Father-Son Strategy

 

So, basically what is Grandfather-father-son or GFS?

GFS backup is a common rotation scheme for backup, in which there are three or more backup cycles, such as daily, weekly, and monthly. Typically, It consists of daily backups (son, at fixed intervals of hours in a day), a weekly full backup (father, once a week), and monthly full backup (Grandfather, once a month).

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Make Your Own Rules, ElastAlert Style

 

Right off the bat, I want to say that, this blog does not cover installing and configuring ElastAlert in the usual sense, i.e. working with pre-existing rules. It helps, I hope, in understanding the requirements for adding one’s own rule. Continue reading “Make Your Own Rules, ElastAlert Style”

SonarQube Custom Quality Profiles

 

Source code quality analysis is a basic piece of the Continuous Integration process. Along with automated tests, it is the key component to deliver reliable software without numerous bugs, security vulnerabilities, or performance spills.

There are many open source as well as commercial tools available in the market for static code analysis such as LGTM, PMD,Graudit, reshift, Codacy, and many more. One of the best static code analyzer you can find on the market is SonarQube.

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IP Whitelisting Using Istio Policy On Kubernetes Microservices

Recently, we explored Preserving the Source IP address on AWS Classic Loadbalancer and Istio’s envoy using the proxy protocol in our first Part. Continuing to the second part of this series, we will look at How can we apply IP whitelisting on the Kubernetes microservices!

Problem Statement:

There are some microservices behind an internet-facing loadbalancer that we want to have limited access to, based on source IP address. This will prevent our microservices from unauthorized access.

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