Quick Tricks
It's quite simple to setup multiple Git (in this case GitHub) accounts on the same machine, each using different SSH keys. The scenario that I use this for is to have both a personal account and a work account. Host github-personal HostName github.com IdentityFile ~/.ssh/personal_github_
Kubernetes
I recently setup monitoring on my home MicroK8s cluster (Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB) and found out the hard way that by default the Grafana deployment does not have any kind of Persistence (emptyDir volume). If the pod gets restarted all of your custom settings, sources, dashboards, etc will be erased. In
Kubernetes
I host a single node Kubernetes cluster (MicroK8s) at home running various applications. I use simple hostpath volumes for storage and need a way to create backups of this data. The solution I chose is to combine K8 CronJobs with Rsync. The basic steps are: * Create a backups namespace * Create
Quick Tricks
Use WebDAV in your application to sync files (sqlite in my case) between devices. Storage backed by NextCloud, AWS S3, Google Drive, Dropbox and more
Linux
Motivation We have an application with a single frontend and a micro service backend. When we were smaller it was feasible to run everything on our laptops while developing locally. Those days ended. However we were able to make a relatively small change to the local setup to allow developers
Linux
Tell your computer which IP address to use for a hostname with the /etc/hosts. Handy for development and other scenarios.
Quick Tricks
Execute sudo write from within vim