I’ve recently been moving a few of my services from bare metal installations over to docker containers. Normally I use ansible to deploy everything in the right place (and you should be doing that too), but I have a “playground” to try out stuff before promoting it to “properly deployed on a different VM with ansible”.
The following script came in handy to simplify the process of creating systemd service files for the docker services.
It assumes that you are in a directory with a docker-compose.yml and the directory name will be the service name, e.g. you are in /opt/watchtower/ and there is a docker-compose.yml here -> the service name will be watchtower .
create_dock_compose_service.sh
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
if[[!-r./docker-compose.yml]];then
echo"Switch into the directory with your docker-compose.yml file"
Recently I’ve been noticing my Sonarr and Radarr applications behaving erratic (sometimes not responsive, sometimes not performing tasks, not searching or adding content, but at other times behaving totally fine). A quick look at the logs told me the applications were crashing and being restarted by systemctl, after a few crashes they seemed to stabilize. Today I had some time to dig deeper into the issue. I had already searched the Internet for general issues, but it didn’t seem to be a widespread problem. I assumed it might have to do with the ARM architecture, but Raspberry Pi users didn’t seem to be having these issues.
In the past I had difficulty reproducing the issue, but today I was in luck, every time I tried to kick off the “Process Monitored Downloads” task in Radarr, it would start working on the task and then crash and restart. The core issue turned out to be oddly specific to the Odroid XU4 hardware.
The XU4 has eight CPU cores, four A7 cores running at 1.4GHz, and four A15 cores running at 2GHz.
Whenever the mono process moved from an A7 to an A15 core (or vice versa) the process crashed. Since both Sonarr and Radarr are Mono applications, they were both affected. Pinning the applications to either the A15 or the A7 CPUs resolved the problem. taskset--cpu-list can be used to change the CPU affinity of a process.
First look up the systemctl service files for Radarr and Sonarr (e.g. via systemctl status radarr ). Edit the service files by prefixing the ExecStart command with /usr/bin/taskset-c0-3 (for the A7 cores) or /usr/bin/taskset-c4-7 (for the A15 cores). Then reload the systemctl files ( systemctl daemon-reload ) and restart the service.
If the service files are managed via the package manager, you may want to create an systemctl override instead of editing the service file, so that the package manager doesn’t overwrite your changes:
Now you probably want to see if it worked and want to know how to check which core a process is running on? There a re a few options:
htop: launch htop . Press <F2> , go to Columns , and add PROCESSOR from Available Columns. The CPUs are numbered 1-8 in htop (as opposed to 0-7 by the system).
ps: the PSR column can display the core a process is on. The CPUs are numbered 0-7 in ps.
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# ps -o pid,psr,comm -p 21130
PID PSR COMMAND
211300mono
taskset: can display the current affinity of a process.
I’m currently still evaluating hugo and jekyll, themes and plugins, as an alternative to the current WordPress site. Until I decide what route to eventually go with, I had a look at WordPress plugins to generate static versions of a site.
Simply Static looked fine and I gave it a spin, it can easily crawl through the site and you can provide additional file/urls/directories to add to the static version (as well as exemptions).
The static version of the website is created regularly and stored locally, so I added a few ansible tasks to set up a periodic rsync of the files to my webserver that serves static content.
I have a HAProxy load balancer in front of my webservers that I have configured to serve the static version of the website first, and fall back to the wordpress server as a backup (that also gives me a nice redundancy, so I can update and reboot servers without causing a downtime). HAProxy is also configured to always send certain requests (admin interface, search) to the WordPress server since they require PHP. This all happens transparently for the user.
I’m not going to bore with the details since it was all pretty standard stuff. It’s nothing fancy, but it looks reliable and does what it should.
I have this blog entry scheduled to go live in a few days, so we’ll see if all the automatisms work and the static version of the page generated and synced to the webserver.
I finally got my new Odroid SBC and have migrated all the services from my Odriud XU4 over to the new HC1. The HC1 is based on the XU4 but drops multimedia interfaces like the HDMI port and instead adds a SATA connector and the black aluminium case fits a 2.5″ hard drive. The case is stackable and acts as a passive cooling heat sink. Since the HC1 is based on the XU4, software that runs on a XU4 will run on a HC1 without any fiddling.
It doesn’t have an eMMC connector, but you can assign the / partition to the hard drive/SSD, only the /boot partition needs to be on the SD Card.
About once a year one of my outgoing email servers will magically pop up on Microsofts blacklist of email servers. The exact status in SNDS is “Blocked due to user complaints or other evidence of spamming“, which is a bit ironic since the weekly volume of emails that go to Microsoft controlled domains seldom is higher than 5 and they are all personal emails. The error message the MTA recieves is “550 5.7.1 Unfortunately, messages from [xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] weren’t sent. Please contact your Internet service provider since part of their network is on our block list (S3140). You can also refer your provider to http://mail.live.com/mail/troubleshooting.aspx#errors.” in case anyone ends up here via google.
I’m not going to bitch and moan or attempt to guess why the server ends up on the list since it isn’t something I can influence (just submit a support request and wait), instead I’ll post some tips and pointers to useful tools you should be using:
SPF – Sender Policy Framework Specify which IPs are allowed too send mail for your domains, also determine what should happen with mail that is recieved from unauthorized IPs.
DKIM – DomainKeys Identified Mail Outgoing mail servers for a domain can sign the emails and thereby allow recipients to verify that the email really came from a valid mail server and is not from a spoofed sender.
DMARC – Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting & Conformance DMARC allows you to specify policies for domains or subdomains in regards to “what should happen if an email fails DKIM or SPF” and where/if to send reports for Emails recieved by other mail servers.
SNDS – Smart Network Data Service Allows you to monitor the IPs of your mailservers as viewed by the Outlook.com system.
JMRP – Junk Email Reporting Program Forwards the full message with headers of any email marked as “junk” or “phishing” by Outlook.com users
MX Toolbox MXtoolbox is a great website for testing your mail server settings, they also have a free_monitoring service for one IP, so you can get alerted if your IP shows up on a Blacklist.
Last but not least I use the following small script to monitor the status of my servers according to Microsoft. I call the script via a daily cronjob, and if a server is blacklisted, it sends an alert. Go to Automated Data Access first to generate an API key.
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#!/usr/bin/env bash
sdns_key="<<insert API key here>>"
recipient="<<email to send alerts to>>"
And if all else fails and your IP does end up blacklisted in SNDS, you can go here to submit a ticket to get back off (although I’d suggest checking your mail server logs and the status of the IP on other RBLs first, just to make sure).
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