Unanswered Questions
238 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Force Jenkins to reschedule parallel pipeline step as soon as node goes offline
Exactly this. In our environment, we're using GCE preemptible nodes and the Jenkins GCE plugin. As a consequence of this, it's highly likely (even expected) that a node will go away during the course ...
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How to recreate GCP Preemptible VMs behind LB before they expire?
I created preemptible instances in a managed instance group behind LB, I specified the preemptible option in the instance template.
Because GCP Compute Engine always terminates preemptible instances ...
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Best practices for external backups for S3 buckets?
I would like to know how everyone is making external backups of S3 buckets and best practices/recommendations for this. Regardless of how good AWS is it is still a single point of failure.
Especially ...
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if the bottle neck is the number of connections, is it better to scale redis by sharding or by replication?
Background
last week we had a major outage, we identified the bottle neck to be redis number of connections:
Our quick fix was to scale redis from cache.m4.4xlarge to chache.m4.10xlarge (vertical ...
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Validating release artifact provinence
While this question could be posed in a vendor agnostic fashion - I'll gear it around Github and Azure to give it some context.
I am planning an open-source project, in a sensitive business domain (...
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How to fix a “heartbeat failure” in Docker Swarm?
My cluster is currently located in a single data center. I've been trying to change that by adding a single worker node from another data center, but so far it hasn't worked.
I'm able to make this ...
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Monitor Jenkins node/slave health
For a project i'm working on we need to create a Jenkins node in an AWS environment. For this we will work with the docker image which is available on https://github.com/jenkinsci/docker-ssh-slave
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Installing Packages from a 3rd Party Repository with FAI
Problem
I want to install Docker CE on a Debian Stretch system using Fully Automatic Installation (FAI). The official Docker documentation recommends that you install Docker using their package ...
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Is there any way of getting code coverage with molecule?
I'm currently working on testing Ansible roles with Molecule. I have one role with 2 scenarios that are executed in Jenkins but just before that, those are submitted to a SonarQube analysis. So I ...
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Infrastructure Automation with GitLab
I am looking to validate the use of devops for a team of seven people, each having a specific function.
1 Java Developer
1 System Administrator
1 Team Lead/Project Manager
1 Identity Management ...
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How to schedule a Jenkins Job dynamically based on the time value in database
I have a situation where there is a database in which a table consists of scheduled time to build. This schedule time to build may vary from day to day. Say for example,
Today the entry in db is 09/...
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How to test production Ansible execution without having to provision target
We use ansible for our day to day operation and so far so good. We have been looking for a way to run local test etc just like chef guys and found molecule that we use with testinfra/vagrant. While I ...
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Issue with Spinnaker automated trigger
I am trying to get Spinnaker to have a pipeline use an automated trigger which is an image pushed to an ECR repo. I can add different repos fine but can't seem to see the images. I am following this ...
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Connecting to MySQL Remotely on Azure VM
I am having trouble connecting remotely to my MySql install that runs on an Azure VM.
Here is what I did:
Ubuntu VM with MySql 5.7 installed
Bind Address set to 0.0.0.0
User granted rights with ...
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Exit a Makefile target called by parent without throwing an error
Let's say that I have 2 targets:
test:
# ...
@$(MAKE) dosomething
@echo test
# ...
dosomething:
# ...
@if [ -z "$(SOMETHING)" ]; then exit 0; fi
@echo dosomething
# .....
