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My Openshift Cheatsheet

Openshift build secrets for cloning git repos using SSH Keys

To create ssh secret:

oc create secret generic sshsecret \
    --from-file=ssh-privatekey=$HOME/.ssh/id_rsa

Upgrading Kubernetes Cluster with Kops, and Things to Watch Out For

Alright! I'd like to apologize for the inactivity for over a year. Very embarrassingly, I totally dropped the good habit. Anyways, today I'd like to share a not so advanced and much shorter walkthrough on how to upgrade Kubernetes with kops.

At Buffer, we host our own k8s (Kubernetes for short) cluster on AWS EC2 instances since we started our journey before AWS EKS. To do this effectively, we use kops. It's an amazing tool that manages pretty much all aspects of cluster management from creation, upgrade, updates and deletions. It never failed us.

How to start?

Okay, upgrading a cluster always makes people nervous, especially a production cluster. Trust me, I've been there! There is a saying, hope is not a strategy. So instead of hoping things will go smoothly, I always have bias that shit will hit the fan if you skip testing. Plus, good luck explaining to people

Configure Git to use a proxy

In Brief

You may need to configure a proxy server if you're having trouble cloning or fetching from a remote repository or getting an error like unable to access '...' Couldn't resolve host '...'.

Consider something like:

set -e, -u, -o pipefail

The "set" lines These lines deliberately cause your script to fail. Wait, what? Believe me, this is a good thing. With these settings, certain common errors will cause the script to immediately fail, explicitly and loudly. Otherwise, you can get hidden bugs that are discovered only when they blow up in production.

set -euo pipefail is short for:

set -e
set -u

DevOps started out as "Agile Systems Administration". In 2008, Andrew Shafer did a talk called "Agile Infrastucture" addressing issues around involving more of the company in the same disciplines as programmers.

In 2009, Patrick Debois created "DevOpsDays" conference to help to bring it to light. However, it wouldn't begin to trend until about 2010, when people would begin to describe it as a standalone discipline.

Today, DevOps goes beyond just developers, systems administration and infrastructure, its about [dev, ops, agile, cloud, open source and business](https://blogs.the451group.com/opensource/2010/03/03/devops-mixing-dev-ops-agile-cloud-open-source-and-busi

We subscribe to the Git Featrue Branch workflow, briefly described in that link.

In practice, it works as follows:

FEATURE DEVELOPMENT

Steps to Follow:

Start with an updated local development branch -- by checking out the dev branch and pulling changes:
git checkout development
git pull origin development

	import argparse
	import functools
	import logging
	import os
	import signal
	import sys
	import time

	_LOG_FORMAT = "%(levelname)s:%(asctime)s:%(name)s:%(message)s"
	logging.basicConfig(stream=sys.stdout, format=_LOG_FORMAT)