In this article, I will list out steps for a popular/mandatory automation in DevOps world. Let’s see how you can setup Jenkins job to trigger on every push to a specific git branch Triggering a Jenkins job for every Git push is needed if you are planning to setup automated release of applications. Techies have […]
How to use grok exporter to create prometheus metrics from unstructured logs
Long time, No see. It’s been weeks since my last blog post. Let’s the break the ice and talk on . In this article, I will explain how you can use grok exporter to create prometheus metrics from unstructured logs. Grok is popular for processing logs in ELK stack (Elastic Search, Logtash, Kibana) and thanks […]
Sometimes waiting for a Jenkins job to complete be like forever
Sometimes waiting for a Jenkins job to complete be like forever 😛 😀 Comment your thoughts below. Also subscribe to this blog so that you don’t miss out anything useful (Checkout Right Sidebar for the Subscription Form) 🙂
Fix for ‘ImportError: No module named pkg_resources’ error
You will see this error when you try to install a PIPÂ package. This error message means Python setuptools is missing or broken. $sudo pip2.7 Traceback (most recent call last): File “/usr/bin/pip2.7”, line 6, in <module> from pkg_resources import load_entry_point ImportError: No module named pkg_resources #Fix1: Just re-install the Python setuptools to fix the […]
Fix for ‘jenkins dead but pid file exists’ error
Here is the Fix for error jenkins dead but pid file exists. You see this error when you check Jenkins service status. One important thing to note that you won’t find this error while starting the Jenkins service. [root@localhost vagrant]# /etc/init.d/jenkins start Starting Jenkins [ OK ] [root@localhost vagrant]# /etc/init.d/jenkins status jenkins dead but […]
“You can’t kick my balls, it is just impossible” – Linux
“You can’t kick my balls, it is just impossible” – Linux 😀 😀 Comment your thoughts below. Also subscribe to this blog so that you don’t miss out anything useful (Checkout Right Sidebar for the Subscription Form) 🙂
How to trigger a PagerDuty alert when a Jenkins job fails
We all know that Jenkins is a popular CI/CD tool. When you have a very important Jenkins job and it cannot fail, you will have to setup alerting for it. You might already have mail notification setup for the job, but it is not enough if the job is very important because mails could be […]
How to Install a Jenkins Plugin – Explained with Screenshots
As you already know Jenkins is a popular CI/CD tool that every DevOps guy loves. You can do limitless automation on Jenkins. Jenkins plugins make the automation task little more easy. There are lot of Jenkins plugins out there developed for specific purposes like Mail, GitHub ..etc. In this article, let me get you through […]
How to install Jenkins on Ubuntu/Debian using Salt
We can easily install Jenkins using tradition package managers like Yum /Apt . But it is recommended to use configuration management tools like Salt , Chef or Puppet for better management. In this article, let me get you through steps to install Jenkins on Ubuntu /Debian using Salt . Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, remote […]
How to install Jenkins on CentOS/RedHat using Salt
We can easily install Jenkins using tradition package managers like Yum /Apt . But it is recommended to use configuration management tools like Salt , Chef or Puppet for better management. In this article, let me get you through steps to install Jenkins on CentOS /RedHat using Salt . Salt can be used for data-driven orchestration, […]
