After adopting a variation of the
Gentoo policy for managing OpenPGP (GnuPG) keys I now feel confident enough to use OpenPGP to save sensitive passwords in the cloud. Gentoo’s GLEP 63 policy takes the guesswork out of key management and provides some best practices valuable when encrypting sensitive information.
Although saving sensitive passwords in the cloud may seem a foolish endeavor the alternative is to keep passwords on the sneakernet and risk losing them. Given the abundance of thumb drives and their general multi-purpose use one might, for example, accidentally erase their only backup. Not to mention saving data on any physical medium carries the risk the physical media becomes corrupted.
There’s got to be at least 1000 tutorials that’ll teach you how to add emojis to your
conventional commits. Many of them will tell you to install 3rd party tools like Husky or Yorkie which can clutter up a repo with development cruft, or have you hacking up your package.json with stuff that isn’t in the spec.
For the longest time I was using npx git-cz aliased on my machine until I realized what I was doing was no safer than
piping curling to shell. After looking around I found a better way to add commit emojis. And the method I’ll share is much more friendly for contributors to a project as it doesn’t force THEM to use YOUR specific approach to development.
How to install Wordpress with Bravada theme for local development in 8 steps.
Tip: If this tutorial is too high-level for you, have a look here instead. Step 1: Install Dependencies Lens Docker docker Git git Kubernetes CLI kubectl K3D k3d Helm helm Watch watch Step 2: Clone Sources Clone WordPress Helm Chart from OSA Clone WordPress from Pantheon Systems Put them next to each other.
Step 3: Create Cluster Bootstrap K3s in a multi-node Docker cluster:
Rio is a MicroPaaS for Kubernetes designed to run using minimal resources. Rio provides automatic DNS and HTTPS, load balancing, routing, metrics and more. Use it to remove the chore of creating and managing a secure IT infrastructure.
k3s is a lightweight, certified Kubernetes distribution capable of running on constrained hardware and therefore ideal for local, edge and IoT substrates. K3s was originally developed for Rio but useful enough to stand on its own.
Today I’m going to show you how to easily set-up k3s and Rio on Manjaro Linux MacBook and use them to create a self-hosted, git-based continuous delivery pipeline to serve your own website.
If you’re not yet familiar with Kubernetes, no problem. Please let this gentle introduction serve as your practical guide. When you’re finished you’ll have a better understanding of the concepts and tools used in container orchestration and a shiny new website you can use to demonstrate your skills.
Shortly after
the buzz of MS purchasing GitHub I started self-hosting a {{ external “https://gitea.io/" “Gitea” />}} stack using a Docker Compose file I threw together just for the occasion. The hosting I chose at the time was a $5 Vultr VPS with the following specs:
- CPU: 1 vCore
- RAM: 1024 MB
- Storage: 25 GB SSD
- Bandwidth: 1000 GB
I chose Vultr partly because they’ve been
shown to be faster than DigitalOcean and Lightsail. But really I just needed a testbed to prove things out to finally feel confident enough to abandon GitHub.
But Vultr isn’t cutting it anymore. Their $5/month VPS option, while arguably a great deal, isn’t delivering enough storage. Sure I could add block storage at $0.50 per GB or even consider switching to Linode. But I don’t see the point of either when Amazon offers a 40 GB SSD option at $5 an instance with double the bandwidth offered by Vultr and half the cost of the Linode equivalent plan.
As luck would have it, last night I ran out of disk space on Vultr. What better a time to make the switch over to
Amazon Lightsail? And if you’re looking to self-host Gitea on Lightsail, here’s how you can too.
Sublime Text with
CoffeeScript is a JavaScript developer’s dream, but one that doesn’t evaporate in the fog of sleep shortly after waking. After learning about Sublime Text at Fluent Conf 2012 during a
plenary talk from Paul Irish, I immediately began looking for ways to incorporate it into my workflow. And now, after having used it for over 8 months in my day-to-day work, I wanted to share a quick primer for those who want to amp up CoffeeScript coding with Sublime Text too.
