Cassandra 2.1 Docker images and lockups

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We recently noticed that we had locked up Cassandra Docker containers piling up when running our integration tests.

After digging around some more, we saw some others complaining of similar symptoms. Something in common with all cases was the use of Cassandra 2.1.x images. After seeing someone mention that Cassandra 2.2 and 3.x images weren't showing this behavior, we gave it a shot.

As luck would have it, this did the trick! So for anyone else running into Cassandra Docker containers with the following symptoms, consider switching to 2.2+:

  • Containers never fully start, hanging after creation.
  • Containers can't be rm'd or killed.
  • docker logs shows no output in addition the the previous two.

Using Drone CI to build and push images to Quay.io

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As my experimentation with Drone continues, the latest task was to get Docker images building and published to Quay.io (more on why we're using Quay here).

Drone uses a .drone.yml file to determine what happens in response to a `git push` (or other events). We tend to use the build section (not shown below) for running our tests, and the publish section for actually building and publishing the image from a Dockerfile. Read on for an excerpt from a single-page JS app I helped deploy today.

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paypal-python 1.2.3 released (+ maintainer needed!)

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To help silence some over-aggressive logging within what is an otherwise handled exception, I have cut paypal-python 1.2.3 and released to PyPi.

paypal-python is for use with the oldschool NVP API.

Maintainer(s) needed!

I have zero interest in maintaining this package anymore. If anyone who uses paypal-python is interested in stepping up and taking the lead, please get in touch via the issue tracker or the Contact me page on my site.

Otherwise, this may be the end of the road for future releases! 1.2.3 is such a nice version number to end it on.