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Consul ports and what they are used for
- Feb. 10, 2017, 10:35 a.m.
- System Operations
- General
- Jeroen Jacobs
Here is an overview of the firewall rules needed by Consul to operate correctly.
Ports required by Consul servers and agents:
- 8301 (tcp and udp): Gossip protocol between agents and servers.
- 8400 (tcp): Used for RPC communication from the commandline tools.
- 8500 (tcp): HTTP API.
- 8600 (tcp and udp): DNS interface.
Ports used by Consul servers only:
- 8300 (tcp): Used to handle incoming connections by Consul agents
- 8302 (tcp and udp): Gossip protocol between Consul servers
When SysOps need workflow.... Introducing Apache NiFi.
- Jan. 29, 2016, 10:57 p.m.
- Development System Operations
- General NiFi
- Jeroen Jacobs
If you are a SysOps person, you probably have to deal with a lot of data generated by your servers, and in order to run an efficient IT department, you must be able to receive almost real-time notifications when something goes wrong. While there are already a lot of tools out there, sooner or later we always end up with our own scripts to tie everything together.
When I started experimenting with Apache NiFi, I came to realize that there are better ways to manage your servers' data flow...
Read MoreUsing DynamoDB as a Django settings store
- Nov. 27, 2015, 3 p.m.
- Development
- Python Django DynamoDB
- Jeroen Jacobs
In this article, I will show you how you can use DynamoDB as a settings store for your Django application. Some people prefer to store settings in the environment variables of the instance itself, but DynamoDB can be a quite good alternative.
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