Author Archives: Adam Young

About Adam Young

Once upon a time I was an Army Officer, but that was long ago. Now I work as a Software Engineer. I climb rocks, play saxophone, and spend way too much time in front of a computer.

Talking to FreeIPA with python-requests

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The code that Rich M gave me a while back has bit rotted. At some point, I need to get an updated version, but until then, I can continue to talk to the FreeIPA server using Python and the Requests library. In the future, I can get a session cookie, but for now, python3-request-gssapi will work to authenticate me, provided I have a valid TGT.

I pulled the requests-gssapi library from Koji, as it does not currently ship in any of the RHEL8 repos. Here is the one I installed.

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1371255

Note that this quick-and-dirty code runs on the IPA server itself. A better approach would be to read the Server name out of /etc/ipa/default.conf. 

#!/bin/python3
import requests
from requests_gssapi import HTTPSPNEGOAuth
import socket
hostname = socket.gethostname()
url = "https://%s/ipa/json" % hostname
referer =  "https://%s/ipa" % hostname
body = {"method":"user_find","params":[[""],{}],"id":0}
 
r = requests.post(url,
                  json = body,
                  auth=HTTPSPNEGOAuth(),
                  headers = {
                    'Content-Type': 'application/json',
                    'Accept': 'applicaton/json',
                    'referer': referer})
print(r.status_code)
if r.status_code  == 200:
    print(r.text)

Network Policy to Explicitly Allow access from all Namespaces

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The Default network policy in OpenShift allows all access from all pods in all namespaces via the cluster IP. However, once you start enforcing policy on a project, all policy decision need to be made explicit. If you want to still allow access from all projects, you can use the following policy file.

kind: NetworkPolicy
apiVersion: networking.k8s.io/v1
metadata:
  name: allow-all-namespaces
spec:
  ingress:
  - from:
    - namespaceSelector: {}

Deploying a Minimalistic Flask Application to OpenShift

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Some colleagues and I were discussing the network access policy of OpenShift. I realized it would be very helpful to have a trivial app that I could deploy to OpenShift that would then try to make a call to another service. So I wrote it using Python3 and Flask. Now that I have it working, I want to deploy it in OpenShift, again, in a trivial manner.

I would not deploy a Flask App into production without a Web server to front it. But that is what I am going to do for this test app.

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18 Triadic Permutations

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I use the term permutations loosely here. But for any given chord inversion, there are 6 variations of the tones in the pitch you can play in order to play each tone once. What makes this an impure use of the term permutations is that the second and third notes of the sequence can go both above the starting note in one variation, and below it in another.

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