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Kelson on February 6th, 2022.
Introduction One feature that Openshift provides on top of Kubernetes is the ability to configure a series of Identity Providers for authentication against the API. For that, Openshift master includes a built-in OAuth server that can be configured right after the cluster installation. That being said, after providing an article about...
Kelson on March 21st, 2021.
Introduction Recently, I had a requirement to migrate data between Elasticsearch clusters while building a new ELK stack. There are a few tools that can get the job done, including the input-elasticsearch Logstash plugin, Elasticsearch reindex API and elasticdump. On my journey of evaluating new tools, I experimented with elasticdump and...
Kelson on March 14th, 2021.
Summary Anyone that manages Elasticsearch clusters must be aware at all times of the health of the cluster, being through the use of monitoring tools such as ElasticserachHQ, X-Pack or even through simple RESTAPI calls scripts. Monitoring is extremely important, but there is one point as important as monitoring, which is knowing the...
Kelson on March 3rd, 2021.
When working with Logstash, chances are you will someday require transforming/replace data before sending it to its last destination. That being said, this post aims to present the translate-plugin, which is a general search and replace tool that uses a configured hash and/or file to determine replacement values. Scenario –...