Frederick Ollinger articles - 25 total
C# HTTPS REST Connections Using Self-Signed TLS Certificates
RestSharp is a C# library for making client side REST connections to servers. It can use HTTP or...
Getting Shell Access to a Kubernetes Container
Problem: You have a running Kubernetes deployment, and you want to examine inside a container so you...
Using a Self-Signed Certificate with Git Clone Https
Ever have a problem when you need to clone from a git repo with https, and it fails because you have...
Deploy Postgresql with Helm
Helm is the package manager for deploying pre-built packages to Kubernetes. I found the Postgresql...
Setting Up Service Principle Deployments for Gitlab CI/CD Terraform Virtual Machine Deployments
In order to use Terraform to deploy to the cloud, you need to either be logged in to Azure all ready...
Manipulate Tags on Gitlab CI/CD
On a Gitlab CI/CD pipeline, how to list, create, and delete tags. Preliminaries This...
Update Gitlab On Prem Server Running in a Docker Container
Problem: We had a Gitlab server with repos in it that needed to be updated which was running on prem...
Pulling Git Submodules on Gitlab CI/CD Pipeline From a Different Repo
This is for solving the problem of building a repo with a different ssh key. In this case, we had...
Docker Same User Inside a Container Dynamically
In this post, we'll create a user dynamically inside a Docker container with the use UID and GID as...
Docker Compose Access A Mounted Volume Inside a Container
Problem: Using a container to build my project but I can't access the mounted volume due to...
Rust ^ cannot use the `?` operator in a function that returns `()`
Problem: When I try to run code with the following function: fn invalid_function() { let mut...
Install Redis 6.2 Inside Centos 7 Docker Container
You'd think this would be easy, but like everything else there are some tricks. Here's what I did...
Using Hashicorp Vault to Write/Read Secrets in Terraform KV1 Backend
If you have Vault set up as per prior posts and you are authenticated to the server, you can use...
Put an SSH Key into Hashicorp Vault
This article assumes that you have set up a minimum vault:...
Terraform Connect to Vault and Use Approle Auth Method to Set a KV Secret
Introduction This article assumes you have set up an on prem Vault Server and are logged...
Hashicorp Vault Key Value I (KV) Secrets Engine
Introduction This tutorial assumes you have a work Vault server and are logged in with the...
Vault Enable Userpass Auth Method
NOTE: This post assumes that you have all ready set up a vault server:...
Vault Enable AppRole Auth Method
NOTE: This post assumes that you have all ready set up a vault server:...
Production Hashicorp Vault Minimal Configuration On CentOS 7
This is a hello world with Hashicorp Vault to get a production server working. I had looked high and...
Terraform Parsing Results of a Bash Command
In this example, we will want to take the result of the bash command whoami, and return a variable...
Terraform Write SSH to to Azure Key Vault for an Azure VM
Shows Terraform code which will write an auto-generated SSH key to Azure Key Vault so that you can...
Azure Key Vaults, SSH Keys, and You
A quick post of how to work with ssh keys using MS azure. Making a key pair: ssh-keygen -t...
Configure Gitlab Server for HTTPS
Minimal configuration steps for Gitlab Server after you install it to create TSL certificates and run...
Gitlab Server Restore Tutorial
This post allows you to restore Gitlab backups which were made in this post:...
Gitlab Server Backup Tutorial
Audience: Anyone who is actually running their own instance of Gitlab server. This person wants to...