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Automation & scripting medium

Find Sensitive Information in Log Files with Python

Scan log files for emails, IP addresses, API keys, and passwords using regular expressions in Python.

regex security log-analysis
Python
import re
import os
from pathlib import Path

def find_sensitive_info(log_path):
    """Scans log files for patterns like emails, IPs, API keys, and passwords."""
    patterns = {
        'Email': r'[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}',
        'IP Address': r'\b(?:\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}\b',
        'API Key'…
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Automation & scripting easy

How to Write an IP Block List to hosts.deny in Python

This Python script validates a list of IP addresses and CIDR ranges, then writes them to a hosts.deny file to block connections at the TCP wrapper level.

hosts.deny ip-block ipaddress
Python
from ipaddress import ip_network

def write_hosts_deny(ip_list, output_file="hosts.deny"):
    with open(output_file, "w") as f:
        for ip in ip_list:
            try:
                ip_network(ip)
                f.write(f"ALL: {ip}\n")
            except ValueError:
                continue
    print(f"Written…
14 0 Open
Automation & scripting easy

Parse nginx access log top IPs in Python

Reads an nginx access log line by line, extracts the client IP, and returns the most frequent IPs using a regex and Counter.

nginx log parsing regex
Python
import re
from collections import Counter

def top_ips(log_file, n=10):
    ip_pattern = re.compile(r'^(\S+)')
    ip_counts = Counter()

    with open(log_file, 'r') as f:
        for line in f:
            match = ip_pattern.match(line)
            if match:
                ip_counts[match.group(1)] += 1

    return…
14 0 Open
Production deployment patterns medium

How to Mock Kubernetes Services with a ClusterIP Registry in Python

Simulate Kubernetes service discovery by assigning ClusterIP addresses to dataclass-defined services, with JSON export for inspection or testing.

kubernetes clusterip mock
Python
import json
from dataclasses import dataclass, asdict
from typing import Dict, Optional


@dataclass
class Service:
    name: str
    namespace: str
    cluster_ip: str
    selector: Dict[str, str]
    port: int
    target_port: Optional[int] = None


class ClusterIPServiceRegistry:
    _ip_counter = 0

    def __init…
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