Thursday, March 30, 2023

Sending Kibana (free/open source) Alerts via Webhook Using Fluent-Bit (free)

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Background This is a case where we helped a customer save quite a bit of money by using software they already owned rather than paying a lar...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

Tunneling X11 over SSH as a different user

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Background X11 tunneling over SSH is pretty straightforward as long as you don't need to su to another user on the target system. When y...

Modify kibana.yml after deploying Kibana with Helm

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If you deploy Kibana using the Elastic helm chart with default values, what you'll find is that you don't have any obvious way to m...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Installing .pak Files on WebSphere Application Server 8.5.x

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Background In WAS 7.0 (and possibly earlier), the WebSphere Update Installer was used to install WAS fix packs, which would have a file exte...
Thursday, March 16, 2023

Installing additional software on the Rancher docker container

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If you read one of my previous posts  to install Rancher on a single docker container, you may have found that it doesn't include severa...
Wednesday, March 15, 2023

Installing Rancher in a Single Docker Container on Ubuntu 20.04

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This is MUCH easier than my last couple of posts because this just takes one step after you configure your OS. Rancher is a cloud native (ru...
Tuesday, March 14, 2023

Installing the ELK stack and Fluent-Bit on Minikube on Ubuntu 20.04

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 Background This should be easy, but it took me a couple of days to successfully get it running, so that showed me that I needed to create t...