We ran into an interesting issue recently with our PostgreSQL cluster running atop Kubernetes and managed with pgo. Where no primary node was elected post a node eviction.
We’d recently performed an upgrade of our Kubernetes cluster from 1.18.X to 1.19.X and the containers were evicted from the older nodes to the new ones. In the process the pgo clusters failed to elect a new leader.
$ pgo test zercuritycluster : zercurity
Services
primary (10.103.189.241:5432): UP
pgbouncer (10.109.233.235:5432): UP
replica (10.109.210.110:5432): UP
Instances
replica (zercurity-758dd49969-nzltl): UP
replica (zercurity-erwj-5d5876dc64-gb676): UP
replica (zercurity-vcxh-574fd7cf8b-jdgxc): UP
Not to worry (or so we thought)…
Osquery provides inbuilt support for multiple external logging capabilities one of those is AWS Firehose via Kinesis.
AWS Kinesis in their own words. Is a a real-time, fully managed, and scalable platform for streaming data on Amazon Web Services. AWS Firehose, however, is a service to load streaming data into an external service such as AWS S3, Redshift and Elastic Search.
Why?
Whilst Zercurity captures and presents the data we query across your many assets. You may want to log whats going on in its entirety. Capturing exactly what going on in Zercurity a your own queries. …
A long over due update for this year so far. However, we’ve been busy working on three new feature sets. The first of which, we’re releasing today. Identity and access management (IAM) control.
Identity and access management (IAM)
Up until this point its only been possible to give users full access to the platform. With the exception of a few key areas for user specific callbacks e.g. Slack integrations etc.
It is now possible to provide granular access — including additional filters for fine grain control over API requests.
The policy management works be defining a JSON policy object which contains a series of policies…
Whats with all the Kubernetes posts? Well, for sometime Zercurity has supported Kubernetes on-premise. However, we’re now bringing it to GitHub alongside our docker-compose setup and soon our helm build.
Why Kubernetes?
Whilst docker-compose is great for smaller and PoC deployments. If you’re looking to support thousands and thousands of clients in a production environment Kubernetes is the way to go for a clustered and highly available deployment.
Installing Zercurity on Kubernetes
This guide is designed to get you up and running with Zercurity on Kubernetes via the provided base configuration. This is designed to be a configuration from which you can pick and customise how…
Following from our last three posts. There are three primary ways of standing up Kubernetes on vSphere. Each with there own benefits and drawbacks. This post will be the final post of our tree part post looking at VMware’s TKGS.
- Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)
Deploy Kubernetes via Tanzu (TKG) without the need for a licensed Tanzu supervisor cluster. This does not provide a load balancer. - Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service (TKGS)
Deploy and operate Tanzu Kubernetes clusters natively in vSphere with HA Proxy as the load balancer. Without VMware Harbor as a container repository. …
Following from our last two posts. There are three primary ways of standing up Kubernetes on vSphere. Each with there own benefits and drawbacks. This post will be the second of three looking at VMware’s TKGS.
- Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)
Deploy Kubernetes via Tanzu (TKG) without the need for a licensed Tanzu supervisor cluster. This does not provide a load balancer. - Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service (TKGS)
Deploy and operate Tanzu Kubernetes clusters natively in vSphere with HA Proxy as the load balancer. Without VMware Harbor as a container repository. …
There are three primary ways of standing up Kubernetes on vSphere. Each with there own benefits and drawbacks. This post will be the first of three looking at VMwares TKGS.
- Tanzu Kubernetes Grid (TKG)
Deploy Kubernetes via Tanzu (TKG) without the need for a licensed Tanzu supervisor cluster. This does not provide a load balancer. - Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service (TKGS)
Deploy and operate Tanzu Kubernetes clusters natively in vSphere with HA Proxy as the load balancer. Without VMware Harbor as a container repository. …
There are lots of ways to use Osquery to query the underlying system. However, no one wants a slow computer.
Some query methods are more performant than others especially when joining tables. Or continually querying from non-cache-able tables with high disk reads. Whilst we’re not going to dive into too many examples. I do want to look at the tools Query gives you to monitor and audit, query execution. There are a few things you can do to limit the impact on system performance. As well as some common pitfalls and general optimizations. If you are heavily using certain tables.
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There are a number of really useful tables within Osquery to determine information about a systems hard drive. Not least the availability of disk space but the disks encryption status and even some performance metrics.
One thing to bear in mind is that there is no common hard drive table within Osquery. Each operating system platform has its own distinct tables. These tables also need to be joined together in most instances to get a full picture.
Windows
Kicking off with Windows.
Basic disk information
In windows the primary table you’ll want to use to grab a system disk information is the logical_drives table…
As with most tables in Osquery. You can gleam a whole load more information by joining tables together. Or enriching results with external data sources.
The wifi_survey table is a perfect example of this. We’re given all the data we need in order to work out the exact location of our asset via Google’s geolocation services.
The wifi_survey table is currently only available for Mac OS as of Osquery 4.6.0. It also goes without saying the asset you’re querying will need a working WiFi card. Which you can check the status of by querying the wifi_status table.
osquery> SELECT interface…
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