Automating Talos etcd Backups with Scheduled Jobs and ArgoCD

Setting up a reliable and automated etcd backup for Talos is simpler than it seems if you break it down properly. The key? Using a combination of Kubernetes CronJobs, External Secrets, and ArgoCD for seamless deployment and management.

In this guide, I’ll …

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Configuring Single Sign-On (SSO) for Linux Systems using Keycloak and PAM with kc-ssh-pam

In this guide, we will configure single sign-on (SSO) for a Linux system using Keycloak and PAM with kc-ssh-pam. This will allow users to log in to the Linux system using their Keycloak credentials.

Prerequisites

Before we begin, …

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Creating a telegram bot Step-by-Step

Creating a new bot for Telegram is pretty striaght forward.

1. Open Telegram Messanger
2. Search @BotFather on Telegram.
3. Type /start to get started.
4. Type /newbot to start the bot creation process.
5. Enter your Bot name and unique Username, which must end with the bot and send.

In the …

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What is a Discord Bot Token?

A Discord Bot Token is a short phrase that acts as a “key” to controlling a Discord Bot. Tokens are used inside bot code to send commands back and forth to the API, which in turn controls bot actions.

Generating Your Token Step-by-Step

1. Go to the Discord Developer Portal

Your first step …

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In this article, I will describe all the steps required to setup GitLab CI/CD in kuberntes using kustomize. We will go through how to run GitLab on Kubernetes when you have related resources postgres, redis, minio, tls certificates etc already available in your setup.

This is a very common scenario in companies and …

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About • Usage • Image Configuration • Local Demo • Helm Chart • Todo • Issues • Acknowledgment

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About

The exporter allows to retrieve the DockerHub rate limit counts as scrape target for Prometheus. The exporter obtains an auth token and then queries the Docker Hub registry with a HEAD request to …

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What is a GitHub Action ?

A GitHub action is an element of your custom workflow that is triggered when a push or pull request is created and performs some action such as checking code, sending a message or deploying the application.

The most important concept of GitHub actions is their composability. You can assemble …

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Rancher v2.X KeyCloak Authentication Backend Configuration

Ranchers official documentation about how to configure the Rancher & KeyCloak setup is fine but definitely not sufficient to successfully configure it. That's why every single required step is documented down here.

KeyCloak Configuration

Steps are based on …

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In this article, we will illustrate how to configure and send messages to multiple platforms from your scripts. A notification can be setup based on success or failure of a task or if you want to have an alert when a certain condition is meet. This article uses a small binary PingMe to send this notification, you can …
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