Nginx as a reverse proxy for Nifi web UI and Kibana

Nginx can act as a application neutral proxy. One example is to front Nifi. The nifi default configuration provides an HTTP access point, specified in the following entries in nifi.properties: Nifi can provide secure port by commenting out the lines above and provide the followings: However, it does require configuring JKS keystore for Java, as … Read moreNginx as a reverse proxy for Nifi web UI and Kibana

Quick way to configure Rest API service

Working in IT, we sometimes want the customer to have an API to perform pre-defined activities on our servers. We are hoping to manage the activities in a script to control what can be done, allow customer or partner to perform the activities on their own. Restful API is a great way to simplify and … Read moreQuick way to configure Rest API service

A quick disk space health check service in Python

Update Jan 3, 2023: practices described in this post has been outdated. It is recommended to use an off-the-shelf utility. This post is for archive only. The challenge with our cross-organization team is that alerts are not configured properly and the operational team undergo alert fatigue. Oftentimes a disk usage alert does not trigger any … Read moreA quick disk space health check service in Python