This article contain a small example program that triggers a Docker image build at DockerHub. I suspect I am late to the party as usual, but this is an improvement to a small utility program I created earlier that help me to trigger a build of a Docker image I have created based on code… Read More »
In this short article I will show two different ways to interact with GitHub using Python. First I will use the GitHub API directly, sending and receiving HTTP request and even parsing the JSON responses. Next I will rely on the git command that I have installed on my computer and execute it from Python… Read More »
This post shows how to use the Python library Paramiko to implement a SFTP client that can be used to programatically send and receive files over SFTP. As when using Paramiko for SSH communication, authentication is performed using either username and password or username and a private key. Preparations The preparations are identical to those described in my previous post on SSH… Read More »
This post shows how to use the Python library Paramiko to implement a SSH client, programmatically connect to another computer over SSH and execute a shell command on that computer. Authentication is performed using either username and password or username and a cryptographic key. Paramiko have many more features than the ones I use in the… Read More »
Some time ago I red about the Iron.io and how they created very small Docker images for different languages, such as Python, Java etc. Some days ago I was looking into how to make my Elastalert Docker image smaller, mostly as a therapeutic task, when I recalled the Iron.io Docker images. A quick search revealed… Read More »
I am currently taking a course in Python at Coursera.org called “Programming for Everybody“. This is a beginner’s programming course using the Python language. “What on earth is this man doing in a beginner’s programming course?” you may ask. Please bear with me for a moment and I hope you will understand. First of all,… Read More »