Joe Miller

Signing releases with a GPG project key

Sat, 20 Jul 2019 07:50:48 -0700

Intro This article presents a step-by-step guide for signing a project’s releases with GPG. It came from my own experiences adding GPG-signing support to vault-token-helper. My initial thought was to create a signing sub-key from my own personal GPG key and then I came across this much better idea from a StackExchange post: As an alternative, you might want to consider creating a project key which you sign with your own key.

Retired Old Blog Posts, Migrated to Hugo and Github Pages

Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:06:47 -0700

This blog sat idle for 5 years, the last post was 2014. Old posts have been un-published from the site but are still available in the github repo. In addition to retiring old posts the blog was migrated from jekyll to hugo. Hosting is now a combination of Github Pages + Cloudflare (previously S3 + Cloudflare). With Circle-CI deploying on master merges. There may be a few posts going forward. We’ll see.

Heroku log drains into Logstash

Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:45:58 -0800

The first and obvious option for shipping logs from a heroku app to Logstash is the heroku input plugin. However, this requires installing the Heroku gem and deploying the login + password of a Heroku user to your Logstash server(s). At this time it seems that any user given permissions to an app on Heroku has full control. Not good when you just want to fetch logs. Heroku has added more granular permissions via OAuth but the Heroku gem does not support OAuth tokens yet.

Fortunately there’s another option using Heroku’s log drain. Setting up a log drain from Heroku to Logstash is almost as simple as the Heroku input plugin but has the major advantage of not requiring any new users or passwords to be deployed on the Logstash server.

List of statsd server implementations

Wed, 21 Sep 2011 11:34:46 -0700

Statsd is a simple client/server mechanism from the folks at Etsy that allows operations and development teams to easily feed a variety of metrics into a Graphite system. For more info on statsd read the seminal blog article on Statsd “Measure Anything, Measure Everything”.