How does Mesos-DNS name tasks with slash ("nested")? - dns

For example:
If Marathon is running a task named /cassandra, Mesos-DNS assigns it a DNS name - cassandra.marathon.mesos.
Now I have a task named /monit/promdash. How can I find its DNS name?
Already tried:
monit_promdash.marathon.mesos, promdash_monit.marathon.mesos (and with - instead of _), monit.marathon.mesos, promdash.marathon.mesos, ...)
There's a HTTP interface. Couldn't find how to list all DNS names either...
Thanks,

Marathon reverses the hierarchical names, concatenates them with - and this is the app name then, so in your case it would be promdash-monit.marathon.mesos. Try it out.
At the bottom of the Mesos-DNS naming documentation we provide some more details about how these FQHN are constructed and you can also check out a complete end-to-end example I've put together, using two levels of hierarchies.

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How to change a numeric ID into a sentence in Graylog using pipelines?

I am trying to "beautify" the data I receive from some windows logs on Graylog. My idea is to change the windows log ID from a number to the actual definition for that ID. For example: I receive a log with ID 4625, I want to show in my widget "An account failed to log on".
To do that, I am using a pipeline and a lookup table, which reads the IDs and the respective definitions in natural language from a .csv that I've uploaded on the server.
This is the rule that I wrote for my pipeline, that doesn't seem to work:
rule "eventid_windows_rule"
when
has_field("winlogbeat_winlog_event_id")
then
let winlogbeat_winlog_italiano = lookup("winlogbeat_winlog_event_id", to_string($message.winlogbeat_winlog_event_id));
set_field("winlogbeat_winlog_italiano", winlogbeat_winlog_italiano);
end
I think my problem is specifically in this rule, because Graylog allows to test the lookup tables, and if I manually write an ID, the lookup table finds the respective description.
I solved the issue myself, this is the correct code for the rule:
rule "eventid_windows_rule"
when
has_field("winlogbeat_winlog_event_id")
then
let winlogbeat_winlog_italiano = lookup("eventid_widget_windows_lookup", $message.winlogbeat_winlog_event_id);
set_field("winlogbeat_winlog_italiano", winlogbeat_winlog_italiano);
end
This rule checks if the log has the field "winlogbeat_winlog_event_id", then it generates the new field "winlogbeat_winlog_italiano", associates the numeric value of "winlogbeat_winlog_event_id" with the description in natural language thanks to the .csv that I've created, then puts the description in the field "winlogbeat_winlog_italiano".

Configure optional DHCP usage in Terraform for vSphere

Using Terraform to configure vSphere vms, I'd like to be able to provide an IP address (and gateway and netmask) in the tfvars file, but have the vm default to using DHCP if the values are not provided. I know it will use DHCP if the 'vsphere_virtual_machine' resources' 'customize' block contains an empty 'network_interface' block. I was hoping that be giving a default value of "" to the settings in the variables.tf file I could set values if present and use DHCP if not, but I get an error stating:
Error: module.vm.vsphere_virtual_machine.node:
clone.0.customize.0.network_interface.0.ipv4_netmask: cannot parse ''
as int: strconv.ParseInt: parsing "": invalid syntax
So putting in a blank string won't parse, and it won't just leave the whole network_interface blank if the values are blank.
I can't use COUNT on a subresource, so the only thing I've come up with so far is to put two entire, nearly identical, 'vsphere_virtual_machine' resources into my module and then put COUNT statements on both so only one gets created, depending on whether the network settings are provided or not, but man, does that seem ugly...?
I think you are in luck. I've been waiting for this exact same problem to be solved since almost a year now.
Lo and behold, Terraform v0.12.0-alpha1:
They now support dynamic block definitions instead of just static ones
Enjoy, while I'm gonna throw away a couple of hundreds of lines worth of hacks just like the one you mentioned...

Puppet create variable names using hiera

I want Puppet to create a different variable name depending on the hiera file associated with the environment. I want to do this because I want Puppet to use the ip address associated with a specific network interface. Ideally, the network interface will be in the hiera file. That way you could concatenate the ip_address variable name with the network interface defined in the hiera file, which would look something like.
::ipaddress_{$network_interface_from_hiera_file}
Is this possible?
Right now I have an the following, but I think there is a better implementation. If the network interfaces change I would have to add another case.
if $environment == 'production' {
$client_address = $::ipaddress_enp130s0f0
} else {
$client_address = $::ipaddress_eth2
}
It sounds like you're after an eval in Puppet, like you have in shell and Perl other languages, and as far as I know, there isn't one.
I would probably just use a custom fact that always returns the IP address I care about. Of course, then you need to solve the problem of how to get the custom facts out to your fleet.
Another solution might be to use Hiera's hierarchical lookup:
In hiera.yaml:
:hierarchy:
- %{::node_environment}
- common
In common.yaml:
---
myclass::client_address: "%{::ipaddress_eth2}"
In production.yaml:
---
myclass::client_address: "%{::ipaddress_enp130s0f0}"
Finally, be aware that you can look up values from within Hiera, see here. Possibly that could be helpful.

Two values for same field with Jinja2 in Ansible

I'm trying to set up a template in ansible, for our tomcat servers, but we have two tomcat instances on each host, each of which needs a different value for certain variables, for instance:
Tomcat_1 needs a port set to 8105
Tomcat_2 needs a port set to 8205
Easy enough to do if it's only one value per node needed, but I'm having some trouble finding how to do this when you need multiple values per host in either the Ansible or jinja2 docs. Can anyone offer some assistance, or point me to an example?
What I'm thinking is something along the lines of if this filepath then this value, but I'm not sure how to make that happen with jinja2.
I would either use two roles or use the role syntax that allows you to pass in values...
- { role: tomecat, some_parameter: 3 }

How to implement different data for cucumber scenarios based on environment

I have an issue with executing the cucumber-jvm scenarios in different environments. Data that is incorporated in the feature files for scenarios belongs to one environment. To execute the scenarios in different environemnts, I need to update the data in the features files as per the environment to be executed.
for example, in the following scenario, i have the search criteria included in the feature file. search criteria is valid for lets say QA env.
Scenario: search user with valid criteria
Given user navigated to login page
And clicked search link
When searched by providing search criteria
|fname1 |lname1 |address1|address2|city1|state1|58884|
Then verify the results displayed
it works fine in QA env. But to execute the same scenario in other environments (UAT,stage..), i need to modify search criteria in feature files as per the data in those environments.
I'm thinking about maintaing the data for scenarios in properties file for different environments and read it based on the execution environment.
if data is in properties file, scenario will look like below. Instead of the search criteria, I will give propertyName:
Scenario: search user with valid criteria
Given user navigated to login page
And clicked search link
When searched by providing search criteria
|validSearchCriteria|
Then verify the results displayed
Is there any other way I could maintain the data for scenarios for all environments and use it as per the environment the scenario is getting executed? please let me know.
Thanks
I understand the problem, but I don't quite understand the example, so allow me to provide my own example to illustrate how this can be solved.
Let's assume we test a library management software and that in our development environment our test data have 3 books by Leo Tolstoy.
We can have test case like this:
Scenario: Search by Author
When I search for "Leo Tolstoy" books
Then I should get result "3"
Now let's assume we create our QA test environment and in that environment we have 5 books by Leo Tolstoy. The question is how do we modify our test case so it works in both environments?
One way is to use tags. For example:
#dev_env
Scenario: Search by Author
When I search for "Leo Tolstoy" books
Then I should get result "3"
#qa_env
Scenario: Search by Author
When I search for "Leo Tolstoy" books
Then I should get result "5"
The problem here is that we have lots of code duplication. We can solve that by using Scenario Outline, like this:
Scenario Outline: Search by Author
When I search for "Leo Tolstoy"
Then I should see "<number_of_books>" books
#qa_env
Examples:
| number_of_books |
| 5 |
#dev_env
Examples:
| number_of_books |
| 3 |
Now when you execute the tests, you should use #dev_env tag in dev environment and #qa_env in QA environment.
I'll be glad to hear some other ways to solve this problem.
You can do this in two ways
Push the programming up, so that you pass in the search criteria by the way you run cucumber
Push the programming down, so that your step definition uses the environment to decide where to get the valid search criteria from
Both of these involve writing a more abstract feature that does not specify the details of the search criteria. So you should end up with a feature that is like
Scenario: Search with valid criteria
When I search with valid criteria
Then I get valid results
I would implement this using the second method and write the step definitions as follows:
When "I search with valid criteria" do
search_with_valid_criteria
end
module SearchStepHelper
def search_with_valid_criteria
criteria = retrieve_criteria
search_with criteria
end
def retrieve_criteria
# get the environment you are working in
# use the environment to retrieve the search criteria
# return the criteria
end
end
World SearchStepHelper
Notice that all I have done is change the place where you do the work, from the feature, to a helper method in a module.
This means that as you are doing your programming in a proper programming language (rather than in the features) you can do whatever you want to get the correct criteria.
This may have been answered elsewhere but the team I work with currently tends to prefer pushing environmental-specific pre-conditions down into the code behind the step definitions.
One way to do this is by setting the environment name as an environment variable in the process running the test runner class. An example could be $ENV set to 'Dev'. Then #Before each scenario is tested it is possible verify the environment in which the scenario is being executed and load any environment-specific data needed by the scenario:
#Before
public void before(Scenario scenario) throws Throwable {
String scenarioName = scenario.getName();
env = System.getenv("ENV");
if (env == null) {
env = "Dev";
}
envHelper.loadEnvironmentSpecificVariables();
}
Here we set a 'default' value of 'Dev' in case the test runner is run without the environment variable being set. The envHelper points to a test utility class with the method loadEnvironmentSpecificVariables() that could load data from a JSON, csv, XML file with data specific to the environment being tested against.
An advantage of this approach is that it can help to de-clutter Feature files from potentially distracting environmental meta-data which can impact the readability of the feature outside of the development and testing domains.

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