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Kubernetes: Using containerd 1.1 without Docker
This article is about using containerd 1.1 directly with Kubernetes instead of Docker. Since 2008 with the first release of LXC and the release of Docker in 2013 a lot has happened in Linux container...
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Docker version pinning for Kubernetes on Ubuntu
Kubernetes supports the container engine Docker only up to a specific version (currently 17.03). For that it needs to be ensured that apt wouldn’t update Docker to any unsupported version. The base installation of Docker...
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Python 3 type checking and data validation with type hints
Type hints are one of my favorite features in Python 3. Starting with Python 3.0 PEP 3107 – Function Annotations introduced function annotations and was later enhanced by PEP 484 – Type Hints in Python...
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Azure ActiveDirectory OAuth2 JWT Token Validation with Python
Just finished integrating Azure ActiveDirectory OAuth2 with a Python Web API using the following authentication scenario. The JWT token is requested through a web application and passed to the Web API for resource access. The...
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How to create an Ubuntu 16.04 AWS EC2 AMI with Salt Minion pre-installed
Creating your own AMIs with AWS EC2 is pretty simple. You basically create a new EC2 instance, based on some image, modify the instance to your liking, shutdown the instance and create an AMI based...
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Save credentials for Git HTTP/HTTPS auth with credential.helper
Recently I was annoyed by typing in my credentials for Git HTTP/HTTPS auth all the time. On my search for a solution I found the credential.helper. With the git-credential-cache Git will cache your credentials for...
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ciso8601 vs mxDateTime vs udatetime
In my last performance comparison I compared libraries with non performance goals with datetime and udatetime, to illustrate the impact of your library choice. Arrow, Pendulum and Delorean are awesome choices when it comes to...
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datetime vs Arrow vs Pendulum vs Delorean vs udatetime
The big alternatives to Python datetime all share similar goals. These goals are ease of use, simplicity and intelligent/user friendly API design. Awesome goals and I love those libraries for investing a lot of effort...
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udatetime now with ultra fast PyPy support
I just finished the performance optimized pure Python implementation of my RFC3339 date-time library udatetime for PyPy and Python 3.5. The benchmark say PyPy is now officially the fastest with udatetime. Again it’s astonishing how...
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udatetime a fast RFC3339 compliant date-time Python library
Working with date-time formats can be pretty upsetting because of the variate of different formats people can come up with. date-times are used everywhere not just only logging or meta data in database entries and...
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