Install apps on Ubuntu on Wsl2 in Windows 10

Posted on March 13, 2021 in DevOps • Tagged with #ubuntu, #wsl2, #win10, #git, #ssh, #nvm, #nodejs

Intro

This blog is a continuation from Install Docker Desktop on Windows 10 Home - including WSL, where I installed WSL2 on a Windows 10 laptop including openSUSE-Leap-15-1 as default distro in WSL2.

In this blog I want to start using Ubuntu 20.04 and see if it gives an ok …


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Setting Pelican blogs in "draft" - 4 review. HowTo

Posted on January 17, 2021 in DevOps • Tagged with #blog, #pelican, #cms, #python

This blog is part of a serie:

  1. Using Pelican blog on Github pages
  2. Using Pelican Themes
  3. Setting Pelican blogs in "draft" (this blog)

Sometimes you want your pelican blog to be set into draft for review.
I always forget some part of howto do.
So here is a small HowTo …


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Install "Raspberry Pi OS with desktop" on Pi 400

Posted on December 14, 2020 in DevOps • Tagged with #linux, #os, #debian, #pi, #pi400

Intro

I wanted to use a Raspberry Pi 400 as a desktop alternative to a ChromeBook meaning a cheap PC mostly just for browsing the internet.
The price is approx EUR 140,-

  • including
    • shipping
    • 128 GB SD Card
  • excluding
    • mouse
    • monitor

This blog is about setting up the Pi and …


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k3s hosted in Civo - Part 2.0

Posted on November 02, 2020 in DevOps • Tagged with #k3s, #civo, #k8s

This blog is part of a serie:


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Run docker containers - Part 1.1

Posted on October 18, 2020 in DevOps • Tagged with #docker

This blog is part of a serie:


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k8s on Windows Devbox - Part 0.2

Posted on October 12, 2020 in DevOps • Tagged with #arkade, #docker, #openfaas, #curl, #hyperv, #virtualbox, #kitematic, #wsl2, #win10, #virtualmachineplatform, #kubernetes-dashboard, #metrics-server, #k8s

This blog is part of a serie:


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Docker Desktop for Windows on WSL2 - Part 0.1

Posted on September 07, 2020 in DevOps • Tagged with #docker, #hyperv, #virtualbox, #openfaas, #kitematic, #wsl2, #win10, #virtualmachineplatform

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Neo4j on Windows

Posted on May 08, 2019 in DevOps • Tagged with #graphdb, #cypher, #neo4j, #docker

Time for me to play with Neo4j. I have a project, where a graph DB makes most sense. In this blog I'll install Neo4j on Windows.
First I'll install a docker version. It might come handy in deployment case.
Next I'll install a Desktop version to get a GUI both …


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VPN client - Download on IPhone - Copy to PC

Posted on May 06, 2019 in DevOps • Tagged with #vpn, #icloud

While writing this blog I am in China. I have an immediate need for VPN, since so much SW and websites are dependent on the websites, which are barred in China. I can install VPN clients on IPhone from AppStore, but I can't install VPN client on PC, since I …


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Tools for Wordpress sites

Posted on June 10, 2018 in DevOps • Tagged with #wordpress, #themes, #seo

Wordpress sites is still going strong with a large community creating beautiful themes.

Chrome Plugin: WP Sniffer

PenguinWP has created a Chrome plugin called WPSniffer

Testing

  • GoTo a site hosted by WordPress - e.g. Knowledge Cube
    => The plugin will change color to orange in the address bar.
  • Press the plugin …

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Vue Storefront installation on Windows Dev box

Posted on May 15, 2018 in DevOps • Tagged with #vue, #magento, #webshop, #seo, #pwa, #docker, #git, #yarn, #npm, #nvm, #shopify, #snipchart

Vue Storefront will soon be out (june 2018). It is a PWA frontend to the Magento webshop.

I think I'll give it a testdrive.
I am attending a online marketing seminar and workshop presented by Thomas Zacchi (@tzacchi) from intoto digital, so I could use a modern webshop to play …


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Docker for Windows

Posted on May 06, 2018 in DevOps • Tagged with #docker, #hyperv, #virtualbox, #openfaas, #kitematic

For a development project I needed Docker for Windows (D4W).
In this blog I'll install Docker. Playing with it I'll do in another post.

Prerequisite


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Developing with OpenShift

Posted on April 15, 2018 in DevOps • Tagged with #openshift, #docker, #kubernetes, #redhat, #paas, #virtualbox, #ansible, #kubernetic, #openfaas, #footloose

It has become time (for me) to explore OpenShift. OpenShift is a Build and Deployment block using Kubernetes and Docker as deployment target. In other words: It connects GitHub and DockerHub to your cloud provider. It allows you to do do on-premise deployment and to monitor and operate your cloud …


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Moveslink 2 crash

Posted on January 11, 2018 in DevOps • Tagged with #ambit, #moveslink, #drivers, #windows, #suuntoapp

A few days ago I resat my Windows 10, so I could start from scratch.

Problem

The USB driver for my GPS watch, Suunto Ambit 2 misbehaved.

I just connected the watch with USB cable.
Then I installed Moveslink2.

I would see Moveslink in the taskbar and the taskmanager for …


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NAS in the cloud

Posted on January 01, 2018 in DevOps • Tagged with #nas, #storage, #cloud

For the last many years I've been warming up to buy a NAS solution for my home with mirroved disks and at least 1 TB.

I have I-drives at several providers, since the free veersion does not give much space compared to what you often wants to backup. One of …


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Deploying Express REST API to Azure

Posted on October 29, 2017 in DevOps • Tagged with #npm, #git, #express, #nodejs, #azure

This blog is part of a series.

  1. Deploying Ionic to Azure
  2. Deploying Express REST API to Azure
  3. Add Facebook Authentication to your Express REST API - Planned

In this blog I will deploy an Express REST API to Azure Mobile Apps.

The exercise is almost identical to Part 1 - Deploy Ionic …


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Deploying Ionic to Azure

Posted on October 10, 2017 in DevOps • Tagged with #npm, #git, #ionic, #ngx, #azure, #pwa

This blog is part of a series.

  1. Deploying Ionic to Azure
  2. Deploying Express REST API to Azure

The blog is based on @sethreidnz's article Deploying an Angular CLI project using VSTS Build and Release.
This blog deploys a Ionic 3 / Angular 4 app to Azure.

The final workflow

After …


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Using NVM for Windows and Yarn

Posted on October 08, 2017 in DevOps • Tagged with #nvm, #nodejs, #npm, #yarn, #chocolatay, #symlink

Microsoft created Taco (Tools for Apache Cordova) - a set of Node.js tools with specific versions. It was to be used from within Visual Studio, so they knew what was global in their Cordova apps. I blogged about it here

With Nvm For Windows you can stay in the shell …


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Using Pelican Themes

Posted on September 30, 2017 in DevOps • Tagged with #blog, #pelican, #themes, #cms, #install

This blog is part of a serie

  1. Using Pelican blog on Github pages
  2. Using Pelican Themes (this blog)
  3. Setting Pelican blogs in "draft"

Installation - Plugins and Themes

Plugins and Themes are two seperate repos being used by some themes. To be able to reach them from pelicanconf.py is best …


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Using Pelican blog on Github pages

Posted on September 23, 2017 in DevOps • Tagged with #blog, #pelican, #githubpages, #cms, #git, #install, #python

This blog is part of a serie

  1. Using Pelican blog on Github pages (this blog)
  2. Using Pelican Themes
  3. Setting Pelican blogs in "draft"

I had some reasons for moving a blog from Wordpress to GitHubPages. You can read about reason, pro and cons here

In this blog I setup a …


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