I'm trying to use more YAML in my Terraform as a source of truth instead of endlessly repeating the creation of resources and to make CLIs to automate the creation of the YAML. One area that I've had a lot of luck with this is GCP…
Link to comparison table of internal Google tools to external publicly available tools.…
One of my first tasks when I start at a new job is making a series of cd alias in my profile. These are usually to the git repositories where I'm going to be doing the most work, but its not an ideal situation because obviously sometimes I…
As an ex-pat living in Denmark, I use FaceTime audio a lot. Not only is it simple to use and reliable, but the sound quality is incredible. For those of you old enough to remember landlines, it reminds me of those but if you had a good headset. When we…
If like me you are constantly trying to figure out using a combination of ps and free to see what is eating all your memory, check this out: ps -eo size,pid,user,command --sort -size | \ awk '{ hr=$1/1024 ; printf("%13.2f Mb ",hr) } { for ( x=…
You, like me, might assume that when you write a docker-compose healthcheck, it does something useful with that information. So for instance you might add something like this to your docker-compose file: healthcheck: test: ["CMD", "curl", "-f", "-L", "http://localhost/website.…