Most of the time you are doing local web development without HTTPS and self-signed certificates but good-ol’ plain HTTP. For security and SEO reasons, HTTPS should be enabled in your production environment all the time. One important requirement for production Read more…
Shortly after I had started the work on nerdhood.de I built a deployment pipeline. The bash-based build script for my Laravel application was easy but triggering the deployment itself turned out to be more difficult than expected. In the end Read more…
For a customer of us we had to set up two webserver environment on physical servers. We picked up both server systems (having a Super Micro X10DRI-LN4+ and a PNY Quadro P1000 installed in addition to other components) and booted Read more…
Most of my articles are written in English but this topic is more or less focussed on German businesses so I’ll do this write-up in German. Für das WordPress-Plug-in Next Active Directory Integration bieten wir als virtuelle Dienstleistung eine Support-Lizenz Read more…
We are currently in the process of migrating our alerting infrastructure from OMD to Atlassian’s OpsGenie. Most of the features (SMS, phone call etc.) worked out of the box but we struggled with pushing alerts back into our on-premises Jira Read more…
I am currently working on a Jenkins declarative pipeline to connect the Jenkins builds with Kubernetes, Helm and Netflix Spinnaker. One of TODOs has been to deploy different artifacts (e.g. a helm chart my-chart-0.0.1.tar.gz) to an AWS S3-compatible bucket inside Read more…
Just a quick reminder how to run a Spring Boot JAR (or any other self JAR executable) with SELinux enabled: chcon –type=java_exec_t /opt/myapp/spring-boot-app.jar To make this persistent you have to use the bin_exec_t type as java_exec_t is just an alias: Read more…
Today I struggled an hour or so to access a AWS hosted web application through IPv6. Just follow these rules: Get an IPv6 CIDR for your VPC: Go to VPC > Your VPCs > ${YOUR_VPC} > Edit CIDRs > Add Read more…
One of the common required tasks for an application using a persistence store is to initialize the underlying database with basic data sets. Most of the time this contains something like admin users or default roles. Setting the stage To Read more…
After migrating my domain to AWS Route 53 I finally transferred my website to a new Uberspace host which supports Let’s Encrypt. You should be automatically redirected to HTTPS when visiting www.schakko.de. The whole procedure took 2 hours, including setting Read more…