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Alex Popescu
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Do you want a simple way to integrate Salesforce into your smolagents agents?
Here it is: https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2025/04/07/integrate-custom-tool-in-ai-agents/
#ai #python
Here it is: https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2025/04/07/integrate-custom-tool-in-ai-agents/
#ai #python
Integrate Salesforce as a custom tool in an AI Agents
Do you want a simple way to integrate Salesforce into your smolagents agents? There is an simple way to achieve this. First, let’s add smolagents, python-dotenv and simple-salesforce cli, in requirements.txt file: smolagents[gradio] python-dotenv simple-salesforce Next, let’s code a simple AI Agent: import os import yaml from dotenv import load_dotenv from simple_salesforce import Salesforce from smolagents import (CodeAgent, DuckDuckGoSearchTool, HfApiModel, load_tool, tool) from Gradio_UI import GradioUI load_dotenv('.env') @tool def get_insurance_policies_by_status(status: str) -> str: """A tool that fetches the number of insurance policies from Salesforce based on their status.
How do add a certificate to nginx ingress controller in kubernetes
https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2025/03/11/add-certificate-to-nginx-ingress-controller/ #k8s #nginx
https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2025/03/11/add-certificate-to-nginx-ingress-controller/ #k8s #nginx
Add a certificate to Nginx Ingress Controller
Having installed Nginx, now it’s the time to setup the TLS for our kubernetes cluster. First we download the certificate from our certificate authority. Next we apply the next secret in our kubernetes cluster, updating the values with the base 64 encoded certificate and key. apiVersion: v1 kind: Secret metadata: name: podrunner-tls namespace: kube-system type: kubernetes.io/tls data: tls.crt: <REPLACE WITH BASE64 OF THE CERTIFICATE> tls.key: <REPLACE WITH BASE64 OF THE KEY> If you need help getting the base64 of the key and certificate, run the next commands:
Do you want to replace Traefik with Nginx ingress controller in Kubernetes ?
https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2024/2025/01/14/replace-traefik-with-nginx-ingress-controller/ #kubernetes #nginx #traefik
https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2024/2025/01/14/replace-traefik-with-nginx-ingress-controller/ #kubernetes #nginx #traefik
Replace Traefik with Nginx ingress controller in Kubernetes
If the default ingress controller (Traefik) not ok for you ? Here are some simple instructions on how to replace it with Nginx Uninstall traefik from an existing K3S instance sudo rm -rf /var/lib/rancher/k3s/server/manifests/traefik.yaml helm uninstall traefik traefik-crd -n kube-system sudo systemctl restart k3s Or the proper way to do so on installing k3s: curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -s - --cluster-init --disable-traefik Install Nginx Ingress Controller helm upgrade --install ingress-nginx ingress-nginx \ --repo https://kubernetes.
Single Server Kubernetes Installation
https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2024/2025/01/07/single-server-kubernetes-installation/ #kubernetes
https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2024/2025/01/07/single-server-kubernetes-installation/ #kubernetes
Single Server Kubernetes Installation
Do you want a simple single server kubernetes that is easy to install? Here is the guide for you. Installing kubernetes First, we install k3s kuberntes using the next command: curl -sfL https://get.k3s.io | sh -s - --cluster-init --node-external-ip <external-ip> Note: Replace external-ip with your server external IP. This is needed in order to get the traefik ingress controller working. Next we should copy the k3s kubernetes configuration file /etc/rancher/k3s/k3s.yaml to the default location ~/.
Observability with Elastic APM and Python Flask
https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2024/12/23/observability-with-elastic-apm-and-flask/ #python #elk #flask
https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2024/12/23/observability-with-elastic-apm-and-flask/ #python #elk #flask
Observability with Elastic APM and Flask
In out last article here , we explained how to send Docker and application logs to ELK. Now is the time to add some observability to our app using Elastic APM. Configure Elastic APM First, we add Elastic APM to our Docker Compose file from last time, using the same version as Elastic Search. apm-server: image: docker.elastic.co/apm/apm-server:7.17.24 container_name: apm-server user: apm-server ports: - "8200:8200" volumes: - ./apm-server.docker.yml:/usr/share/apm-server/apm-server.yml:ro command: > --strict.perms=false -e -E output.
AWS Lambda and CORS preflight response
https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2024-12-13-aws-lambda-cors-preflight-response/ #aws #cors
https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2024-12-13-aws-lambda-cors-preflight-response/ #aws #cors
AWS Lambda and CORS preflight response
Are you struggling with a frontend application that wants to use a backend AWS Lambda API ? Do you have the next CORS problem: Request header field content-type is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Headers in preflight response The solution is simple: implement HTTP OPTIONS method respond with the next access control headers : Access-Control-Allow-Origin, Access-Control-Allow-Headers, Access-Control-Allow-Methods For example in python you can do something like this: def return_200(): return { 'statusCode': 200, 'headers': { 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin': '*', 'Access-Control-Allow-Methods': 'GET,HEAD,OPTIONS,POST,PUT', 'Access-Control-Allow-Headers': 'Origin, X-Requested-With, Content-Type, Accept, Authorization', 'Content-Type': 'application/json' }, 'body': json.
Deploying docker image to AWS Fargate in GitHub
https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2024-12-09-deploying-docker-image-to-aws-fargate-in-github/ #docker #aws #fargate
https://blog.popescul.com/posts/2024-12-09-deploying-docker-image-to-aws-fargate-in-github/ #docker #aws #fargate
Deploying docker image to AWS Fargate in GitHub
Let’s deploy a docker image to AWS ECR and further to AWS Fargate. If you don’t have docker installed, now is the time to do it. GitHub Action YML: Create a workflow named main-aws.yml, for example as: name: Deploy to Amazon ECS on: workflow_dispatch: env: AWS_REGION: eu-central-1 # set this to your preferred AWS region, e.g. us-west-1 ECS_SERVICE: test-svc # set this to your Amazon ECS service name ECS_CLUSTER: test-fargate-dev # set this to your Amazon ECS cluster name ECS_TASK_DEFINITION: .
nixCraft 🐧Who among us hasn't wished they could delete their problems as easily as a directory?
rm -rfv ~/my_problems*
Java WeeklyGraalVM and ChromeDriver in a Docker image for Render.com
https://tanin.ghost.io/graalvm-and-chromedriver-in-a-docker-image-for-render-com/
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://tanin.ghost.io/graalvm-and-chromedriver-in-a-docker-image-for-render-com/
GraalVM and ChromeDriver in a Docker image for Render.com
This should work on Heroku or in any Docker-based deployment as well. Adding Chrome and ChromeDriver into a GraalVM Docker image isn't as straightforward as I thought. The main complication originates from the fact that GraalVM is lean. There are 2 problems from being lean: (1) microdnf as the main