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Hubot and Hipchat

Many of us have struggle with concept of L1, and L2 support and maintenance which can be very expensive and transitioning is a living hell. What we wish is the ability for both of them to work together and make a smooth transition. So I have started to think it would be cool to make this happen for a organization which runs 1200+ servers and have teams to support product and infra both. The Idea was to start with collaboration between teams which can be extended to request and support basis. To extend it further we discovered  that product team works for 24x7 and infra team is 18x7. Now it is important to design it in a way that product team can manage it 24x7 with minimum and no help from infra team(L2).  Solution: Solution was to use a collaboration tool which supports API for our tools to maintain alert level. For that please refer my previous blog describing configuration of Icinga and Hipchat. Next logical step is to configure hipchat to support robot system ...

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Add user in Sudoer file

The command sudo provides other users to run a command as a root. To use sudo user must have their level of privilege in /etc/sudoer file. In some cases this file is set for read only and others can edit that file and add their user name in Sudoer for this case such as Fedora 12 users need to provide this syntax as a root on their terminal. Syntax for adding a user in Sudoer file is: echo "username ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL" >> /etc/sudoers And to gain the writing privilege you can use the following code in your terminal : chmod 755 /etc/sudoers This code will be enough to give permissions to the user and his user group. If you are an ubuntu user you can easily add your user in this file like: vi /etc/sudoers And you will get a text file. Afterward you need to press 'i' for edit and edit by adding your username just below "root ALL=(ALL) ALL" "username ALL=(ALL) ALL"

Hipchat and Icinga

Hipchat Notify 2.0 Hipchat notification with API 2.0 to be used with ICINGA/Nagios Table of Contents Table of Contents Author Audience Introduction Ruby Script Script used on server Service notification Host notification Change in command.conf for Icinga server Example notification Roadmap Author Shubhamkr619@gmail.com Audience System Engineers and operation engineers Introduction Change the default mail notification of Icinga server to hipchat notification using ruby code. This will allow a single place of management of all the notification and alerts across organization. Let that be service,host or business level alerts all can be managed and monitored using hipchat and hubot will give certain advantage over traditional alerting system. Proactive and reactive alerting Managed monitoring Single place of all the alerts Better communication and collaboration Integration with multiple tools in CI cycle Jenkins Chef ...

Nodejs SSA learnings

nodejs-akamai-page.MD Overview In almost every blog when people talk about deploying something on K8S they use node mostly because setting up http server is not that easy. I wish that it could be this easy for our case, (which it wasn’t). Manly because the way we wanted the application to work, plans for SEO and multiple data pipelines for business including Amplitude for client and Pubsub for application and business metrics. Making all these calls from nodejs was easy for developers just 1 more promise. Everything went smoothly as long as functional testing was required. We were ready to launch and somebody from SRE/Devops team asked: “Have you done load testing?” . Everything was superb up to this point where load testing results are required to make service live. Load Testing We started to put load to our services using apache benchmark. Very soon we realised our application is not scaling as much as we expected. To our surprise application was able to handle only 3 requ...

Managing & Configuring YUM [Centos 6.0]

Yum Configuration Hi Friends, we all have faced problems while configuring yum in RedHat, Fedora and Centos. Please find the below mention steps to use all the RPM packages come along with your distribution. Yum configuration will allow you to use them with proper dependency resolution. To configure yum you must have two packages, 1. yum 2. createrepo To obtain the same do the below mention just after you have mounted you disk. There could be two conditions a.) You have the distribution disk i.e. DVD. Please follow the below mention instructions to manage the same. Your system mush have the greater or equal space of DVD. # df -ah User the partition which has the space and create a directory. In my case /mnt has the space. # mount /dev/dvdwriter /mnt # cd /mnt/Packages/ # rpm -ivh yum-* --nodeps –force # rpm -ivh vsftps* -y # rpm -ivh createrepo* --nodeps --force # cp -rpvf /mnt/* /var/ftp/pub It will create the dump on /var/ftp/pub now we need to unmount the disk. # umount /mnt b.)...

Istio multicluster, gotchas ....

istio.md Istio lets you connect, secure, control, and observe services. At a high level, Istio helps reduce the complexity of these deployments, and eases the strain on your development teams. It is a completely open source service mesh that layers transparently onto existing distributed applications. It is also a platform, including APIs that let it integrate into any logging platform, or telemetry or policy system. Istio’s diverse feature set lets you successfully, and efficiently, run a distributed microservice architecture, and provides a uniform way to secure, connect, and monitor microservices. In context of Vuclip istio allows us to reduce the code and environment configurations while keeping the similar or more feature sets at our disposal. Since istio is designed to bridge the gap for both development teams and SRE, it is essential to see and visualize that in practice. Istio will affect us in our ability to connect , secure(HTTPs TLS, mtls [Phase-2]), control(external comm...

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