HBase can be installed in three modes: standalone, pseudo-distributed and distributed – each mode has uses and advantages and disadvantages and slightly different install steps because of it. This article will guide you through the installation of HBase in standalone mode on Ubuntu 18.04. So why use standalone mode? Firstly standalone mode is not recommended […]
Helm 3 has been out for a while now and for the most part it’s a good step up from Helm 2 however it does have one issue which if you don’t know how to deal with can be frustrating and difficult to resolve. The issue I’m referring to occurs when the first deployment of […]
If you’ve never heard of XPath you can think of it as a quick and easy way to query an XML document, it uses a path notation for navigating through the hierarchical structure of XML similar to that of a URL. I use XPath’s on a daily basis and use it to return elements from […]
This is a bit different to the content that I normally post but may be one of the most important posts I ever write. A while back I got myself a 3D printer and have been using it almost daily since, you don’t really realise how useful they are until they have one. I am […]
This is the second article in a series exploring how to setup an Azure Kubernetes Service instance, implement a Nginx ingress controller and how to deploy apps to AKS using Helm. All the articles in the series can be found by clicking here. In this article we will use Azure DevOps to build a CI/CD […]
This is the first article in a series which will guide you through deploying an Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) instance on Azure with an Nginx ingress controller, configuring a CI/CD pipeline to configure that ingress controller and then deploying to the AKS instance using Azure DevOps. We are going to use the command line to […]
This article focuses on deploying Selenium Grid 3 which is now obsolete please see the following article which shows the same deployment process for Selenium Grid 4. https://tomaustin.xyz/2021/01/13/deploying-selenium-grid-4-to-azure-kubernetes-service-aks-using-azure-devops/ I’ve recently started using Selenium for UI testing some web applications and I kept seeing Selenium Grid being mentioned so decided to take a look at it. […]
Parts 1, 2 and 3 of this series can be found at the following locations: Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. This is the final article in this series covering how to install Bosun in a production environment. The previous articles showed you how to install Bosun, configure TSDBRelay to relay and aggregate data […]
Parts 1, 2, 3 and 4 of this series can be found at the following locations: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 and Part 4. This is the third article in this series covering how to install Bosun in a production environment. The first two articles covered the installation of Bosun and then configuring TSDBRelay […]
This article is the second in a series exploring AKS and how to leverage Azure DevOps to easily deploy and update services running inside AKS. The first article in the series can be found here and guided you through deploying a simple website to AKS, this article will show you how to do the same […]