Export amazon image into IBM cloud

Hello,

I've a VM running in AWS and want to move it to IBM Cloud. Is this supported yet? I would like to use the Amazon AMI to bring a new VM in IBM Cloud. TIA

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Grafana - aggregating traffic graphs

Hi,

I've got some Juniper routers doing streaming telemetry into Grafana (using OpenNTI), and have currently got traffic graphs in bps per interface.

I'd like to create a single aggregate traffic graph, showing the combined inbound/outbound values of say three interfaces.

Does anybody know how to do this?

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Telegraf/Prometheus/Grafana snmp monitoring

Hi,

I'm trying to do some SNMP monitoring for some a Cisco ASA device, I've figured out the SNMP part with Telegraf, but the next part is putting this into Prometheus, and then Grafana.

The SNMP data is being polled using an `snmp.table`, as there are multiple values in a list format.

Here is my telegraf.conf:

[agent]
hostname = "myhostname"

[global_tags]
[[inputs.snmp]]
agents = ["mydevice:161"]
version = 2
community = "mycommunitystring"
name = "snmp"
name_suffix = "_parsed"
[[inputs.snmp.field]]
name = "ike_tunnels"
oid = "iso.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.2.1.1.0"
[[inputs.snmp.field]]
name = "ipsec_tunnels"
oid = "iso.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.3.1.1.0"
[[inputs.snmp.field]]
name = "hostname"
oid = "iso.3.6.1.2.1.1.5.0"
is_tag = true
[[inputs.snmp.table]]
inherit_tags = ["hostname"]
name = "snmp"
[[inputs.snmp.table.field]]
name = "vpn_peer_ip"
oid = "iso.3.6.1.4.1.9.9.171.1.2.2.1.7"
conversion = "ipaddr"

[[outputs.prometheus_client]]
listen = myprometheusserver:9222"
metric_version = 2

This will output to this:

2020-04-14T08:43:23Z I! Starting Telegraf 1.14.0
> snmp_parsed,agent_host=mydevicehostname,host=myhostname,hostname=ciscodevicename ike_tunnels=43i,ipsec_tunnels=49i 1586853803000000000
> snmp_parsed,agent_host=mydevicehostname,host=myhostname,hostname=ciscodevicename vpn_peer_ip="1.1.1.1" 1586853803000000000
> snmp_parsed,agent_host=mydevicehostname,host=myhostname,hostname=ciscodevicename vpn_peer_ip="2.2.2.2" 1586853803000000000
> snmp_parsed,agent_host=mydevicehostname,host=myhostname,hostname=ciscodevicename vpn_peer_ip="3.3.3.3" 1586853803000000000

Prometheus will pick up the first data which includes `ike_tunnels` and `ipsec_tunnels` but it will skip the table data, which is a list of `vpn_peer_ip`, and I think that is because it is in the list format. See screenshot:

[Prometheus output screenshot](https://pasteboard.co/J3KhaqQ.png)

Meaning in grafana, I can query `snmp_parsed_ike_tunnels` and also `snmp_parsed_ipssec_tunnels` so why is it that I cannot capture the snmp table, assuming this would be `snmp_parsed_vpn_peer_ip`?

Now, I am not sure if my telegraf.conf is invalid/incorrect for what I want it to do, or does Prometheus not support this? I've spent quite a few days on this already, and I feel like I've run out of ideas, so looking for some help/direction.

Thanks.

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Three-tier architecture: Log management

Hello,

I'm trying to understand log management tools. Can someone just explain how these stacks are built? Frontend is easy, but what about the database, the shiptool and the processing? What does Graylog do? What is the difference between EFK and ELK (okay, Logstash and Fluentd, but Logstash is again an independent log management solution).

I am happy about your answers :)

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Pipeline and architecture drawing tools

What tool do you use to draw and graph your automation pipelines and architectures?

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[Question] Running SaaS agent on K8s cluster

I'm working on a SaaS that helps K8s users with observability and management. It also provides correlated view across clusters. For that purpose there is a need for some agents to be running within the cluster and reporting metrics to the SaaS backend. The rest of the things is accessible through web site once the data reported to the SaaS service. The product uses read-only access to non sensitive cluster APIs.

I want to remove barriers for entry and simplify the use as much as possible. If you're a Kubernetes I'd appreciate your feedback on how would you like to run such SaaS service (assuming you know what it is and need it).

Have few options in mind. Please feel free to suggest anything beyond those:

1. SaaS web site uses a wizard and asks if you're a public cloud user. If in AWS/GCP/Azure will show instructions to create service account. The SaaS will then connect to client's account, get list of managed K8s cluster. User selects a cluster and the SaaS deploys necessary agents on the cluster using the namespace of the choice. For self managed k8s clusters, asks for ip address/credentials and does the same thing. No direct management, configuration and deployment is needed.
2. User deploys a helm chart which contains an operator that handles agent deployment and version updates. It has write access to its own namespace only. Deploy the operator once, the rest is automated for life.
3. User deploys, upgrades and configures agent manually. Can be involved.

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Jenkins and running Projects/Builds as another user?

Hi everyone,

Quick question here. So, I built out our team's Jenkins instance about a year ago. We have an Ent Git that I use to push PowerShell scripts to and have Jenkins jobs that pull and run the scripts in Ent Git's remote repo. Simple enough and everything works great! But...

When I setup Jenkins, I have the service currently running with the "Log On" as my AD \_adm account that has Account Operator. I recently created a service account (srv\_jenkins) to have as the account in the Jenkins service "Log On". Worked just fine. I could log in to Jenkins web UI just fine. But wait... I go to run a job, specifically this job, like many of the ones, query AD/DNS/DHCP/other directory services or modify AD Objects. Well the job failed. I'm assuming that because the jobs run as the user account in the "Log On" tab for the Jenkins service? Is this correct?

If so, what is the work around, if I don't want my AD \_adm account to be running the Jenkins service, but need the jobs that would require Account Operator/Domain Admin to run the PowerShell scripts to run? Thanks!

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One Size Fits None

As somebody who has been involved with many projects, included some "One Size Fits All" pipelines. I thought I'd document some problems I've ran into, as well as some things that help this transition. Hopefully this helps at least one of you in the same boat.

https://medium.com/devops-dudes/one-size-fits-none-22cf9a1725ba

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Workflow for Kubernetes DevOps

[Workflow for Kubernetes DevOps that can evolve.](https://medium.com/@imarunrk/workflow-for-kubernetes-devops-15f0dbb560ff)

The developers, application/cluster operators, architects, and security team wants to contribute to the Kubernetes YAML continuously to keep the Infrastructure matching to the evolving organization strategy and policy, which demands a workflow. [Read More](https://medium.com/@imarunrk/workflow-for-kubernetes-devops-15f0dbb560ff)

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What's the difference between Configuration Management tool and a Provisioning tool?

I hear this frequently, but can't find a decent definition. For instance, "Puppet is more of a configuration management tool, whereas Ansible is more of a provisioning, configuration and deployment tool. "

Redhat says: "Provisioning is not the same thing as configuration", and then in the next paragraph: " Server provisioning includes setting up the physical hardware in a datacenter, installing and configuring software, ..."

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Cloud agnostic vs using specific

Do you strive to build and deploy your apps as cloud agnostic? Or do you see value in using a specific cloud provider and leverage benefits of their managed services/unique offerings or neat integrations (*e.g. using AWS cloudformation, SAM, lambda, fargate dynamoDB etc.*)?

by cloud agnostic I mean doing everything across your software stack to be able to move the apps to other cloud provider e.g. - using abstractions in your software or configurations not to directly use specific cloud service, using terraform for IaC, serverless framework, kubernetes for orchestration, anthos? etc.

**what informs your decision to go cloud agnostic or cloud specific?**

**which technologies/tools/ frameworks promote cloud agnostic/portable cloud native engineering?**

​

Personally, I see no clear answer, but rather take it as a project specific decision

Cost of cloud agnostic is e.g. increased operational cost, infrastructure cost, loss of speed by not using cloud provider specific innovation, reduced engineering speed for a need of maintaining layers in between your software and cloud providers

A motivation for cloud agnostic can be though: need to move workcloud across clouds, avoid vendor lock-in / compliance to enterprise strategy , legal / customer requirements

Happy to hear your thoughts!

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Why does sorting by New not work properly in this sub?

When I sort by New in this sub only, I get a reverse sort starting about 14 hours ago. Scrolling down I see newer posts up until about 2 hours ago. After that, it starts again at about 11 hours, down to 2 or 3. This pattern repeats a few times before 1d old posts appear, and then a few 2d old posts, then some more 1d old posts.

Most other subs I'm on (haven't checked them all) behave as one would expect.

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Rsyslog and Journald - Log processing in Linux

Hey there,

I do not really understand the forwarding from Journald to Rsyslog.

Basically I understood it in the way that the 'pipeline' is built up as follows:

>Kernel logs through printk() → /proc/kmesg ← rsyslog → writes to log file according to rules in rsyslog.conf
Userspace logs → /dev/log ← rsyslog → writes to log file according to rules in rsyslog.conf


This results in the various log files, such as /var/log/syslog etc.

As in the rsyslog.conf snippet, messages from the facility 'user' are also written to syslog and are therefore stored twice, ***right?***

# # First some standard log files.
Log by facility.
#
auth,authpriv.* /var/log/auth.log
*.*;auth,authpriv.none -/var/log/syslog
#cron.* /var/log/cron.log
daemon.* -/var/log/daemon.log
kern.* -/var/log/kern.log
lpr.* -/var/log/lpr.log
mail.* -/var/log/mail.log
user.* -/var/log/user.log

So far so clear, if I've got it right.

Journald forwards the logs to syslog (standard in Debian according to [https://manpages.debian.org/testing/manpages-de/journald.conf.5.de.html](https://manpages.debian.org/testing/manpages-de/journald.conf.5.de.html)).

If both rsyslog and journald read from /dev/log (or the link and socket provided for syslog) and journald on Debian has ForwardToSyslog enabled by default, ***why don't all messages duplicate?***

I thank you in advance and hope that you can help me.

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A CloudNative conversation

I’ve been working on an always evolving area of systems and infrastructure engineering over the last decade, which started for me as Automating Everything possible to doing DevOps to Everything as Code and now doing CloudNative stuff. I’ve had many conversations with myself and others on this path and here are those voices in form of many frequently asked practical questions and their answers here [https://medium.com/@ankur.floss/nativity-in-the-cloud-f14d9b197306](https://medium.com/@ankur.floss/nativity-in-the-cloud-f14d9b197306).

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Gotopus: a minimalistic tool that runs arbitrary commands concurrently

# [Gotopus](https://github.com/lherman-cs/gotopus)

Github: [https://github.com/lherman-cs/gotopus](https://github.com/lherman-cs/gotopus)

You define your commands with their dependencies and Gotopus will take care of the rest, running them concurrently when possible.

# Features

* \[X\] Concurrently run steps, speeding up running time
* \[X\] Local or remote configs
* \[X\] Easy to install
* \[X\] Circular dependency detection
* \[X\] Clean step definition with [YAML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YAML)
* \[X\] [Builtin and user environment variables](https://github.com/lherman-cs/gotopus/blob/master/README.md#environment-variables)

# Installation

curl -sf https://gobinaries.com/lherman-cs/gotopus | sh

# Basic Usage

Usage: gotopus <url or filepath> ...

-max_workers uint
limits the number of workers that can run concurrently (default 0 or limitless)

examples/basic.yaml:

jobs:
job1:
steps:
- run: sleep 1 && echo "job1"
job2:
needs:
- job1
steps:
- run: echo "job2"
job3:
steps:
- run: echo "job3"

To use `basic.yaml` above, you can run the following command:

gotopus basic.yaml

Or you can simply give a URL to this file:

gotopus https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lherman-cs/gotopus/master/examples/basic.yaml

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How do you automate configuration of PaloAlto Networks infrastructure?

I'm fairly new to devops, working in it for about 2 years now. I've become accustomed to build/automation tools such as docker, packer, terraform, gitlab, and a lot of scripting, mostly with GCP. This has been sufficient so far, in automating much of the images and infrastructure we use to deploy our software.

I was just introduced to configuration of a variety of elements within our paloalto networks (PAN) system (which appears to be hosted by one of our teams - not SaaS). To my horror, everything was performed manually via a web UI, by someone highly trained to do so. To make things worse, this person then went into GCP and hand-manicured a number backends and external load balancers, duplicating the effort we have terraformed in our internal load balancers, but pointing the LBs at the PAN.

Aside from the GCP manual editing, is anyone familiar with IAC for PAN, and how have you done it?

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What is a normal monthly cost for Azure CICD?

We only have a team of 3 devs for frontend (I'm one of them), and make around 2-3 PRs a day. Frontend + backend with QA, Staging, Production, etc, there are a total of 15 containers.

I was shocked to find out the cost for such a small company is in the mid 4 digits. Is this normal pricing for Azure's CICD service? I would have thought it'd be in the hundreds at most.

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ServiceNow DevOps, CMDB and Self Service Portals

1. Has anyone seen ServiceNow’s DevOps product? Looking for some reviews. Change Automation sounds like a compelling story. Not sure if it can also help with dependency identification.

2. Are CMDBs still a thing? How do you do dependency identification in change management without a CMDB?

3. How do you all utilize self service portals? Check-ins kick off builds is something I understand, but for a new app, where do you specify which build to kick-off (Gold/Silver/Bronze servers) etc.?

4. How do you like ServiceNow’s story around the need for a single dashboard showing the flow of a ticket from conception (idea) to release?

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Ask r/Devops - Basic help with Jenkins&Kubectl

I am trying to get a very basic Jenkins-GKE CI/CD pipeline going with GitHub integration. Push change to GitHub, webhook to Jenkins (ubuntu VM) server running in GCloud, build Docker image and push to docker hub, update deployment in GKE with kubectl with "set image".

My problem is that Jenkins is running with the user "jenkins" and it always fails at the kubectl part. It gets the notification from GitHub, builds the new docker image, pushes it to Docker Hub but can't access my kubernetes cluster with kubectl.

The error:

`+ kubectl set image deployment/hellowhale hellowhale=timorwell/hellowhale:11 error: Missing or incomplete configuration info. Please point to an existing, complete config file:`
`1. Via the command-line flag --kubeconfig`
`2. Via the KUBECONFIG environment variable`
`3. In your home directory as ~/.kube/config`

I spun up the cluster on GKE with the gcloud-cli with my regular user on the VM, so that user can access the cluster no problem. I copied the .kube/config gile to /home/jenkins/.kube/config but it still doesn't see it. I chown-ed it to the jenkins user too.

Why can't it use my config file? Am I approaching this problem from the wrong place? Is there a better way to integrate kubectl into my Jenkins pipeline?

I just tried adding the `--kubeconfig` flag pointing to my config file but that results in "must be logged in to the server" error...

I'm trying to learn all this rn, thanks for the help. And yeah I know this isn't stackoverflow but I just like reddit more due to it being more "human" lol.

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DevOps test



Programming Pre-Screen

Conference room scheduling. Find the nearest open conference room for a team in which a team can hold its meeting. Given n team members with the floor on which they work and the time they want to meet, and a list of conference rooms identified by their floor and room number as a decimal number, maximum number of people it fits and pairs of times they are open - find the best place for the team to have their meeting. If there is more than one room available that fits the team at the chosen time then the best place is on the floor the closest to where the team works.

E.g.

rooms.txt

7.11,8,9:00,9:15,14:30,15:00

8.23,6,10:00,11:00,14:00,15:00

8.43,7,11:30,12:30,17:00,17:30

9.511,9,9:30,10:30,12:00,12:15,15:15,16:15

9.527,4,9:00,11:00,14:00,16:00

9.547,8,10;30,11:30,13:30,15:30,16:30,17:30

Input:

5,8,10:30,11:30 # 5 team members, located on the 8th floor, meeting time 10:30 - 11:30

Output:

9.547

Please explain: how you solved the problem and how it would behave based on the different parameters (number of team members, longer meeting times, many rooms with random booking times). How would you test the program to ensure it always produced the correct results?

For extra credit, can you improve the solution to split the meeting across more than one room if say only one room is available for a fraction of the meeting and another room is free later to hold the remainder of the meeting during the set time. If you want to make this more powerful - assume that the number of room splits can happen in proportion to the length of the meeting so that say if a meeting is 8 hrs long then the algorithm could schedule it across say up to 4 rooms if a single room was not available for the whole time



You may code the response in any DevOps programming language you like

• Bash

• Perl

• Python

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