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GitHub Actions: How to Avoid Running the Same Workflow Multiple Times

In continuous integration, we often reuse the same GitHub workflow for multiple events. For example, we may need the build workflow when we push a new commit, or when someone creates a new pull request, or before we create a new release. However, we may end up having the same workflow multiple times with this approach: both for a push and a pull request or both for a push and a tag. In this post, we present a solution that helps to avoid running unnecessary duplicate jobs.

How to Expose Kubernetes Dashboard Over HTTPS

It is not always convenient to manage the cluster from the console; a web dashboard is sometimes much more convenient. In this post we will learn how to set up automatic certificate renewal with cert-manager, expose the Kubernetes Dashboard to a public Ingress over a secure connection, and configure simple basic authentication as an addition security layer.

How to Create an OpenTelemetry Instrumentation Plugin

OpenTelemetry is an observability framework for cloud-native software to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data (such as metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis. OpenTelemetry provides language-specific integrations automatically that capture relevant traces, metrics, and handle context propagation. For Node.js,

A Secure Way to Run npm ci

No matter how much you trust in the npmjs package registry in general and in packages you are using in particular, Bad Things™ always happen. They happen to the best of us. Even a small Node.js project may have thousands of dependencies, which makes it virtually impossible for a developer to monitor and audit them all.

An NPM package has two main ways to harm you: the first one is when you install it, and the second one is when you actually use it. The first way is possible because of the so-called “lifecycle scripts” run by npm. And even though one of the earliest attacks exploiting lifecycle scripts dates back to 2017, developers still do not take measures to protect their data.

This post explains how to protect sensitive information (such as authentication tokens) when running CI builds.

Alpine 3.11 and Varnish Reload Issue

In Alpine Linux 3.11, there is an issue with Varnish Cache: reload operation always fails. In this post, I try to analyze why this happens, and provide a patch that solves the issue.

How to Increase per_page Limit in WordPress REST API

Because large queries can hurt site performance, WordPress caps per_page REST parameter at 100 records. However, there are situations when you need to override this value. Luckily, this is easy to do, and this post explains how to do that.

How to Run Docker in Alpine Container in LXC/LXD

When experimenting with Docker Swarm, I decided to set up five more nodes on my local computer. I used Alpine images in the LXC, and tried to use Docker in them. Although docker stared successfully, it was impossible to deploy any services to Alpine nodes, deployment failed with “cgroups: cannot find cgroup mount destination: unknown” error message.

Because I dislike when something that should work, does not work the way I expect it to work, I decided to dig deeper and try to fix the problem.

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