Remove weak Ciphers SSL – nginx

GCM is preferred over CBC

  • Verify with cipher is being used?
nmap --script ssl-enum-ciphers -p 443 example.com
  • update nginx.conf
ssl_ciphers         HIGH:!aNULL:!MD5!TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256;

https://superuser.com/questions/109213/how-do-i-list-the-ssl-tls-cipher-suites-a-particular-website-offers

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/62900667/aws-alb-prevent-usage-of-tls-ecdhe-rsa-with-aes-128-cbc-sha256

Backup and Restore etcd snapshot for Kubernetes

  1. Create a deployment to verify the restore in the end
k create deploy nginx-test --image=nginx

2. Update the cert path as per /etc/kubernetes/mainifest/etcd.yaml

ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --endpoints=https://127.0.0.1:2379 \
--cacert=<trusted-ca-file> \
--cert=<cert-file> --key=<key-file> \
  snapshot save /tmp/etcd.backup

2. Stop kubelet

systemctl stop kubelet

3. Stop kube-api and etcd

mv /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml /root/
mv /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml /root/

4. Restore the etcd.backup

ETCDCTL_API=3 etcdctl --endpoints 127.0.0.1:2379 snapshot restore etcd.backup

It will create “default.etcd” directory in current directory

[root@lp-k8control-1 etcd]# ls default.etcd/
member

5. Look at /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml etcd-data (/var/lib/etcd) directory path

[root@lp-k8control-1 default.etcd]# ls /var/lib/etcd
member

6. Copy member directory content from default.etcd to /var/lib/etcd

7. Start kube-api and etcd

mv /root/kube-apiserver.yaml /etc/kubernetes/manifests/kube-apiserver.yaml
mv /root/etcd.yaml /etc/kubernetes/manifests/etcd.yaml

8. Restart kubelet service

systemctl restart kubelet

9. Verify if nginx deployment we created in step 1 is restored

k get deploy

Switch relay with Raspberry pi + Arduino Uno

The 5V Relay switch require that i have require around 52mA current to work properly.

  • Raspberry pi max GPIO current with 5v Relay = ?
  • Arduino pin 13 current with 5v Relay = 38.5mA
  • Arduino pin 13 + 12 current with 5v Relay = 45 mA
  • Arduino pin 13 + 12 + 2 current with 5v Relay = 47.3 mA ( This worked )

So Now i can use Arduino as a switch on/off. Also I needed this switching to be based on some external events. So I used Aurdino Pin 2 as INPUT pin and added one 2.7K ohm resistor to from pin2 to Ground.

int status = 0;

void setup() {
  pinMode(13, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(12, OUTPUT);
  pinMode(2, INPUT);
}

void loop() {
  status = digitalRead(2);
  if (status == HIGH) {
    digitalWrite(13, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(12, HIGH);
    digitalWrite(8, HIGH);
  }
  else {
    digitalWrite(13, LOW);
    digitalWrite(12, L0W);
    digitalWrite(8, LOW);
  }
}

Switch ON = 7PM
Switch OFF = 12AM

  • added Cronjob on Raspberry Pi 4
0 19 * * * /usr/bin/python3.8 /opt/led.py on
0 0 * * * /usr/bin/python3.8 /opt/led.py on

led.py

import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
from time import sleep 
import sys

GPIO.setwarnings(False)
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setup(21, GPIO.OUT, initial=GPIO.LOW)

if sys.argv[1] == "on":
    GPIO.output(21, GPIO.HIGH)
    #print("on")
    exit()
elif sys.argv[1] == "off":
    GPIO.output(21, GPIO.LOW)
    #print("off")
    exit()

Raspberry Pi Max current with GPIO for LED

Note: withdrawing more current(~15mA) from GPIO can affect the Rpi
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/9298/what-is-the-maximum-current-the-gpio-pins-can-output

  • Use 5V Pin (2,4)
  • Use GPIO as Negative volt
  • Max current withdrawn was 23mA for my use case
import RPi.GPIO as GPIO
from time import sleep 
import sys

GPIO.setwarnings(False)
GPIO.setmode(GPIO.BCM)
GPIO.setup(21, GPIO.OUT, initial=GPIO.HIGH)

if sys.argv[1] == "on":
    GPIO.output(21, GPIO.LOW)
    #print("on")
    exit()

Fore More brightness:

  • Add multiple GPIO as GROUND
  • After adding GPIO20 as ground it was taking ~18mA from GPIO20
  • And Overall of ~36mA from both GPIO 20 and 21

Push multi-arch docker image

#ARM64
arm64_image_digest=$(docker manifest inspect nginx | jq '.manifests[] | select(.platform.architecture == "arm64")' | jq '.digest'| sed 's/"//g')

#AMD64
amd64_image_digest=$(docker manifest inspect nginx | jq '.manifests[] | select(.platform.architecture == "arm64")' | jq '.digest'| sed 's/"//g')


docker tag nginx your-username/nginx:amd64
docker tag nginx your-username/nginx:arm64

docker push your-username/nginx:amd64
docker push your-username/nginx:arm64


docker manifest create \
your-username/nginx:latest \
--amend your-username/nginx:amd64 \
--amend your-username/nginx:arm64

docker manifest push your-username/nginx:latest

https://www.docker.com/blog/multi-arch-build-and-images-the-simple-way/

export DOCKER_BUILDKIT=1

docker buildx create --use

docker buildx build --push --platform linux/arm64,linux/amd64 -t httpd-custom .

docker buildx stop
docker buildx rm

##10 0.064 .buildkit_qemu_emulator: /bin/sh: Invalid ELF image for this architecture

docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static:register --reset

docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes



docker run --rm --privileged multiarch/qemu-user-static --reset -p yes
docker buildx rm builder
docker buildx create --name builder --driver docker-container --use
docker buildx inspect --bootstrap

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/60080264/docker-cannot-build-multi-platform-images-with-docker-buildx

set and unset in debug bash script

set-x = print actual shell command

set -f = disable filename expansion [ ls *.yml ]

errexit = fails all script if any exit code arrives

pipefail = Failes multi Pipe statement if any false statement 

set -x -f -o errexit -o pipefail
set +x +f +e

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68465355/what-is-the-meaning-of-set-o-pipefail-in-bash-script

What Does Bash “set -x” do?

https://www.newline.co/courses/newline-guide-to-bash-scripting/errexit

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/333867/what-does-set-f-in-korn-shell-do