I have been using Python + Selenium for years. Honestly speaking, I’m far from a frontend expert or a QA expert. Here are my lessons learned from this journey.
If you’re also a Python user and need GUI testing, check this out!
I’m running docker containers for all side projects. Usually one single container. Sometimes multiple containers started by docker-compose[1].
If containers get issues, I want to get alerts.
What a typical monitoring requirement! But if you do some research, you will find the information is just overwhelming. cAdvisor, Prometheus, InfluxDB, etc. Excuse me? Can’t we have a simple solution for this simple requirement? Here is my answer. Try it and discuss with me.
Suppose you have a critical Elasticsearch cluster. You have to know how to backup it. Correctly and quickly.
It’s not too difficult. But there are something you’d better know. And those are quite common in most DB backup.
Check it out, before it bits you.
Ever need to debug your process in containers? Use strace, lsof, pstree, or anything you name it. But after login, you get a surprise: The tools are not installed!
So what will you do? Typically we have 3 different methods. Check it out, and discuss with me.
(Hint: You don’t have to install the tools at all)
Try Your Best To Avoid Any SSH Operations. Yes, I deeply believe in this principle. But my reality is the automation is never so perfect. I still need to login and check system status sometimes. Though the chance is rare.
It may happen at nights or even when I’m on vacation. So what I can do? Just carry my laptop with me wherever I go? This is certainly bad, isn’t it?
We’re living in the world of ChatOps. And mobile phones dominate our daily life (Sadly!) So why don’t we implement a ChatOps bot for this? Here comes a slack command: /chatqueryhost. (Note: The solution is not limited to Slack)
