When you prepare a machine for production, you usually want to use a redundant network interface in order to be resilient to possible network outages. When we created our OpenShift cluster this wasn’t possible during the installation procedure, at least not using the UPI procedure. We recently added a new node and discovered this new…
Read MoreIn the first blog post of this series I showed you how to set up an OpenShift test environment and set up Gitea via helm chart and add an ssh key to Gitea. In the second blog post we created a deployment with ArgoCD that clones via ssh from our Gitea instance. In this final…
Read MoreIn my previous post, we set up our test environment and a Gitea operator. In this blog post we’ll install the OpenShift GitOps operator and run a simple deployment. This setup allows us to test OpenShift-specific security constraints (such as OpenShift-specific SCCs, non privileged containers by default, etc.) in a test environment before going into…
Read MoreIn this series of blog posts I’ll show you how to set up ArgoCD and Tekton to clone git repositories via ssh from a Gitea instance hosted on an OpenShift cluster. Please note that for the sake of this blog post, the configurations are not suited for use in production, but just to give you…
Read MoreAs you may have noticed from recent posts from some of my colleagues about “Boosting NetEye CI Speed: Test Parallelization” or “Speeding up the NetEye CI Testing Phase“, we are improving our CI in order to have a reliable, fast system that is able to test all the features we implement in NetEye 4. As…
Read MoreOne of the first issues we added more than 2 years ago to our DevOps backlog was automating the infrastructure preparation and release of NetEye, but we postponed it for a long time because it was too big to do. A bit of background Every 2 months we release a new NetEye version: this basically…
Read MoreEvery so often it may happen (in particular after a cluster update or hardware issues) that you see your storage in a warning state on OpenShift. The first thing to do is to check what’s wrong with your cluster: sometimes you may have a real issue, in other cases it may just be a temporary…
Read MoreIn a previous blog post, we looked at how we sped up certain stages of the NetEye pipeline through parallelization. This boost not only lifted team spirits but, more importantly, ramped up the pace of delivering new features and bug fixes, giving everyone the motivation to keep enhancing the pipeline across different stages. In another…
Read MoreOn February 3rd and 4th, 2024, we attended FOSDEM, a major event where thousands of free and open-source software developers from around the world gather to exchange ideas and collaborate. This year I dedicated much of the second day to the Testing and Continuous Delivery room. Continuous testing is essential for ensuring the safe and…
Read MoreOver the course of the last few years, we’ve introduced more and more features in NetEye 4. This fact has had a side effect that’s not directly visible to customers, namely that we keep adding more and more tests to the testing phase of the NetEye 4 Continuous Integration pipelines. While this ensures that regression…
Read MoreA few months ago while navigating through our NetEye User Guide we noticed that it had a small bug that caused some words in the right-side menu to be slightly truncated in the particular case where that menu contained some monospace characters. Well, since this was quite annoying, we fixed it on the fly with…
Read MoreRecently (in September 2023) NetEye integrated version 8.8 of the Elastic Stack, which is just one of many Elastic updates brought into NetEye 4. Since this Elastic update there was a major upgrade (from version 7.17) coming with many breaking changes, so we, as the NetEye R&D team, wanted to make this important upgrade as…
Read MoreWhen deploying new features, releasing your code into a production environment might not be as easy as it seems. To ensure the minimal amount of service disruption, we might want to easily roll back to a previous configuration or to gradually migrate traffic to a new one. That’s where blue-green deployment comes to our aid….
Read MoreRecently we felt the need to collect anonymous metrics about how our users are visiting our websites. After some investigation, the development team proposed using Matomo: a free and open source software project which collects usage metrics while guaranteeing 100% privacy alongside the chance to be self-hosted. We decided to install it on OpenShift, since…
Read MoreSome days after installing an OpenShift cluster you may notice a warning related to insights: the system is complaining because metrics are not stored in a persistent way and a restart of the container may cause the loss of metrics. In OpenShift it is possible to configure several custom metrics. In this post I will…
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