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Bash Search Text

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 13:33:04 -0600

Bash Search Text

Creating a bash script to collect specific text from a file is a relatively simple task that can be accomplished using a few basic command line tools. In this post, we will walk through the process step-by-step, so you can start collecting the text you need in no time.

First, open a text editor and create a new file. This will be the script file where we will write the commands that will collect the text from the target file.

Ansible Create Local User

Thu, 19 Jan 2023 08:39:31 -0600

Ansible Create Local User

Ansible is a powerful automation tool that can help you manage and automate your infrastructure. One of the many things that Ansible can do is create and manage users, including the ability to add SSH keys for secure access. In this blog post, we will go over how to use Ansible to create a new user and add an SSH key for that user.

First, we need to create a new Ansible playbook. A playbook is a YAML file that contains instructions for Ansible on what tasks to execute. The playbook we will create will have two tasks: one to create the new user and one to add the SSH key for that user.

Ansible Initial Steps

Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:05:09 -0600

Getting started with Ansible

Ansible is a powerful tool for automating the configuration and management of servers and infrastructure. In this blog post, we’ll go over the basics of how to get started working with Ansible, including how to install it, how to create and run a simple playbook, and how to organize and manage your playbook files.

First, let’s talk about installation. Ansible is a Python-based tool, so you’ll need to have Python installed on your system in order to use it. The easiest way to install Ansible is to use a package manager like pip:

How to add a Grafana Telegraf InfluxDB dashboard

Fri, 21 Oct 2022 00:58:45 -0500

How to add a Grafana pre-built dashboard

Once you have configured your Grafana + InfluxDB + Telegraf host and you have confirmed that you are sending data, the next step you want to perform is to create a dashboard to display it’s metrics. These are the steps that you’ll need to follow to install a pre-built Grafana dashboard. We will be using the dashboard listed here

First you need to go to

Grafana Influxdb Telegraf

Mon, 17 Oct 2022 21:26:23 -0500

Grafana - InfluxDB - Telegraf Linux Monitoring howto

This is a quick tutorial to install Grafana, InfluxDB and Telegraf on a Debian based system

Grafana has recently become one of the preferred tools for data visualization, this tool provides the users with the required tooling to display data via charts and graphs and these can be unified into one dashboard.

InfluxDB is a time series database. This means that it’s a collection of observations of well-defined data items resulted through repeated measurements over time. Time series data is indexed in time order which is a sequence of data points.

Nuevo tema para el blog y regresando

Wed, 22 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Después de un largo tiempo de silencio y ausencia, me di un tiempo para retomar el blog, revisar la configuración, tema y contenido. Seleccioné un nuevo tema para darle un nuevo spin al blog y poder agregar contenido.

Kong: An intro to API Gateway's

Wed, 09 May 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Please take notice that this blog post is work in progress

While working on some tasks in the past few weeks, I faced a problem that involved setting a “filter” for an application that was exposed to the internet.

The application receives requests with some data, process it and then it produces an output, the problem was that the application did not have much control on how many requests it could receive in a specific time frame or from which source it could receive this requests.