Tag Archives: 2020
Why Logs Should Be More Beautiful Than Sourcecode
Why do we need logs? This is a fair and square question. Why do we need logs, when the application is printing messages and errors in the console? log is required for a better understanding of the application running as a service and to provide proper information and insights to involved (System Engineer, Quality Assurance,…
How to Configure Splunk Behind NGINX Reverse Proxy
Splunk is a very popular option for managing and handling logs. Configuring Splunk with nginx reverse proxy can be a headache sometimes. Considering that splunk has been installed correctly and currently serving the web GUI at http://127.0.0.1:8000 Before getting into nginx configuration, splunk itself needs a little bit of configuring. Find web.conf file at ${SPLUNK_HOME}/etc/system/local/ and open it with a text editor…
How to Configure Jenkins Behind NGINX with SSL
For a production server, I have been trying to get jenkins running behind NGINX a reverse proxy with SSL enabled. What I faced is that there are many configurations available in wiki.jenkins.io but mostly those configurations worked for the authors with different configurations according to their need. I have found a couple of useful instructions but they led me nowhere….
How to Install Root or CA Certificate in Windows
Trusting a custom certificate for the development environment is sometimes beneficial for the team, also sometimes, we just have the need to trust (install) a CA or root certificate manually. Here is how we can do it easily in windows systems. We consider here that the name of the certificate that needs to be installed…
How to Generate Self Signed SSL Certificates
!WARNING! Self-signed certificates should not be used in production. Almost all the websites nowadays have https enabled and it’s really useful to have https enabled environment while developing. Getting an https enabled environment might cost you money but there is an alternate way of enabling https with self-signed certificates. In this post, we are going to see how we can create self-signed…