Jenkins Exploit Cryptocurrency mining malware
A few days ago, our alert system notified us that several of the servers of some clients had a totally abrupt load growth in the system, even in some cases a direct downtime occurred. After entering the systems, after a brief initial analysis of the Geko team, we detected that the systems had been compromised […]
Geko at Barcelona DataOps2019
[:en]This year, Geko has been invited by Dataops Barcelona 2019 to participate as a speaker in one of the several sessions available this year. Because Geko is a specialized company in CI/CD and Devops, the session offered by Geko was dedicated to Gitops and Jenkins X. In this session we talked about the importance of […]
Jenkins X is here to help you
Most probably you already know what Jenkins is and maybe you are already using it for years to help you to automate all kind of things, specially software development process with continuous integration and delivery. From mid 2018 we have another guy on the stage: Jenkins X. This is the first post of a series […]
Extract user_agent fields from logs using AWS ElasticSearch
ElasticSearch service has become one of the preferred services where sysops department store logs and metrics information. Recently, we faced with a problem that we already solved related with the user_agent field we get from nginx json logs. When a new request transaction goes to our web services we want to get some certain relevant […]
Securing Jenkins access to AWS (part I)
Jenkins is an open source automation server used to accelerate the software delivery process and has become the de facto DevOps engine, specially for its scripted Jenkinsfile pipelines committed to source control. To accomplish its function, Jenkins needs to interface with some external systems, such as GitHub or, the reason for this article, AWS. One […]
Forward real IP to a NGINX behind a GCP Load Balancer
This article focuses in GCP Load Balancers, but can apply to other cloud providers / proxy servers. Introduction We worked in a project that required a nginx server to be able to whitelist some public ip addresses while denying all other connections. While this can be addressed using GCP firewall rules there were some other […]
How to set up a High-Availability HAProxy in Google Cloud with Keepalived
Yes, you may think: “What? Google Cloud has it’s own load balancer managed service. Why you want to configure and manage a dedicated HA load balancer?“. We recommend using GCP Load Balancer service always as you can. It’s a very reliable service and you don’t have to manage your own load balancer in a High-Availability […]
EFS & WordPress: When best practices don’t work
Today we are going to talk about AWS recommendations to deploy WordPress in your cloud. AWS offers us a multitude of solutions depending on the environment we need to deploy. In most cases we will want to deploy this well-known CMS taking advantage of the solutions offered by AWS in terms of scalability and flexibility, […]
Azure cost estimate
When moving to a new cloud provider, pricing is an important factor to be taken into account which also raises quite a lot of doubts and concerns. Azure offers a huge number of different services, products, and location. All at different rates. Estimate your cost Azure provides you with a comprehensive tool to estimate the […]
Send docker logs to Stackdriver using gcplogs
When it comes to logging solutions you can either choose a managed or an unmanaged solution. If you decide to go with the latter and you are in Google Cloud Platform the recommended option is Stackdriver Logging. Google offers a custom fluentd based package to send logs to stackdriver (we’ll talk about it in an upcoming post) but if […]