Modeling AWS Structures with PlantUML and AsciiDoc

The AWS shapes are included in the PlantUML stdlib .. simply include them as shown here: example.puml @startuml !include <awslib/AWSCommon> !include <awslib/Analytics/ManagedStreamingforKafka> !include <awslib/Database/RDS> !include <awslib/General/Users> !include <awslib/General/InternetGateway> !include <kubernetes/k8s-sprites-labeled-25pct> skinparam linetype ortho title "AWS Context Diagram" package "EKS Kubernetes Cluster" as eks_cluster { component "<$pod>\napp1" as pod1 component "<$pod>\napp2" as pod2 } ManagedStreamingforKafka(kafka_pod, "Amazon MSK", "Apache Kafka") RDS(pg_rds, "PostgreSQL", "Sample Schema") Users(users, "AppUsers","editors, admins") InternetGateway(igw1, "Customer Gateway", "Customer access to internal services") users -> igw1 igw1 --> pod1 igw1 --> pod2 pod1 --> pg_rds pod1 --> kafka_pod pod2 --> pg_rds pod2 --> kafka_pod @enduml ...

November 8, 2022 · 1 min · 117 words · Micha Kops

Annotation based Kubernetes and Openshift Manifests for Java Applications with ap4k

Writing our manifest files for Kubernetes / Openshift often forces us to edit xml, json and yml files by hand. A new library, ap4k allows to specify metadata for these manifest files directly in our Java code using annotations. In the following short example I am going to demonstrate how to generate manifest files using Maven and ap4k. Figure 1. ap4k Tutorial Dependencies Using Maven we just need to add the following one dependency to our project’s pom.xml ...

February 28, 2019 · 5 min · 898 words · Micha Kops

AWS Snippets

AWS Command Line Interface Installation $ curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64-2.0.30.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip" unzip awscliv2.zip sudo ./aws/install AWS Documentation RDS Export Database Configuration Export instance configuration aws rds describe-db-instances --db-instance-identifier arn:aws:rds:eu-central-1:123456789:db:hascode-prd-db --no-paginate Export parameter group configuration aws rds describe-db-parameters --db-parameter-group-name PARAM_GROUP_NAME >> param_group_conf.json Export option group configuration aws rds describe-option-groups --option-group-name OPT_GROUP_NAME >> option_group_conf.json Generate Signed URLs with Linux Tools e.g. for accessing a website behind a CloudFront distribution using a canned policy. Write the policy file ...

March 1, 2018 · 2 min · 407 words · Micha Kops

Postgres Snippets

Get size of a table SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('schemaname.tablename')); Select unique combination of fields / tuples SELECT DISTINCT ON(field1, field2) field1, field2 FROM thetable Select rows where a combination of fields is not unique SELECT columnA, columnB, count(*) AS count FROM thetable GROUP BY columnA, columnB HAVING count(*) > 1 Search for rows with array containing value Assuming, the field appointments has the type date[] SELECT * FROM mtable WHERE appointments @> ARRAY['2023-09-19'::date] ...

March 1, 2010 · 9 min · 1801 words · Micha Kops

Python Snippets

Virtual Environments Create and activate a venv python -m venv /path/to/new-env (1) source /path/to/new-env/bin/activate (2) 1 Creates a new virtual environment 2 Activate the new virtual environment Deactivate venv deactivate Save used dependencies to a file pip freeze > dependencies.txt Install dependencies from file pip install -r dependencies.txt Storing and fetching Credentials from the System Keyring I am using jaraco/keyring here: pip install keyring import keyring keyring.set_password("system", "db.sample.password", "xoxo") print(keyring.get_password("system", "db.sample.password")) ...

March 1, 2010 · 2 min · 274 words · Micha Kops