Subtitle: Mastering Declarative Configuration Options If you’ve spent any time operating Kubernetes in production, you’ve hit the Wall of YAML. Helm charts nested inside other Helm charts, Kustomize overlays overriding overlays, and a sea of copy-pasted boilerplate that slowly drifts across dev, … ... read more »
gopass is a modern, interactive UNIX password manager wrapper designed for secure, multi-store (e.g., combining independent stores like personal and acme for work), and Git-native secret operations. This guide covers setting up gopass from foundation to team-mount configuration utilizing age … ... read more »
In 2025, after 15 years of utilizing Zsh, I finally made the switch to Fish Shell . It has quickly proven itself to be an incredibly fast, highly interactive, and absolute favorite everyday terminal companion. All of my custom configurations, abbreviations, prompt settings, and custom functions can … ... read more »
A declarative dotfiles manager like chezmoi allows you to securely manage personal configurations across multiple workstations. Here is a practical quick-start setup and cheat sheet for daily operations. 🛠️ Initialization & Prerequisites# If Homebrew is not installed yet on your system, … ... read more »
This article details my practical reference guide for iPXE Bare-Metal Bootstrap & Kickstart over HTTP/DHCP, originally published as a secure GitHub Gist snippet. 🛠️ Section 1: Basic Ubuntu Autoinstall via DHCP# 1. Fetching the Source & Building the Custom iPXE Image# First, clone the … ... read more »
This article covers UNIX Password Manager (pass) Cheat Sheet and Getting Started Guide, originally published as a secure GitHub Gist snippet. pass cheat sheet/guide# Getting started guide to the unix password manager pass. Manage gpg encripted passwords (files) in a standar directory-like hierarchy. … ... read more »
This article covers OSX Workstation Tuning, El Capitan, originally published as a secure GitHub Gist snippet. OS X Preferences# most of these require logout/restart to take effect Enable character repeat on keydown# defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false Set a shorter Delay until key … ... read more »
This article covers Vimdiff Cheat Sheet & Visual Code Merging Guide, originally published as a secure GitHub Gist snippet. vimdiff cheat sheet# ##git mergetool In the middle file (future merged file), you can navigate between conflicts with ]c and [c. Choose which version you want to keep with … ... read more »
This article covers AWS EKS via eksctl, originally published as a secure GitHub Gist snippet. apiVersion: eksctl.io/v1alpha5 kind: ClusterConfig metadata: name: eksctl-us-west-2-managed region: us-west-2 vpc: id: vpc-0b953326cd7a2f917 subnets: public: us-west-2a: id: subnet-0947f8d8495f046d6 … ... read more »
TL;DR# My matrix looks like: # invoke.yaml - PyInvoke Configuration for Salted Containers Matrix Validation run: echo: true pty: true # Matrix build parameters for Salted containers matrix: distros: - ubuntu-22.04 - ubuntu-20.04 - debian-11 - debian-12 salt_versions: - "3006.1" - … ... read more »
Dockerfile is nice, but it’s a puppet toy when it comes to scale. I am looking for a solution to consistently build many docker images with shared layers and consistent and predictable build workflow. TL;DR 🔗︎# My use-case is simple. I want to build matrix of docker images for kitchen-salt CI, … ... read more »
Sum up all features on salt-formulas project (https://github.com/salt-formulas ). For the first, and only this time, for the whole year. The most features comes from Mirantis and it’s MCP product portfolio, however the public participation in the past year was also important. As the I generated it, … ... read more »
Flexible way to perform configuration management actions in the Helm chart’s. We uses years Salt, Chef, Ansible, … to do complex configuration steps, but when it came to implement a new feature in Helm Chart app folks once again tend to fall back to bash, curl and the Helm hell templates. TL;DR … ... read more »
Three mens, one free week, roadtrip in Albania. Tirana, riviera, south and finally the transit Budapest. TL;DR 🔗︎# We planned the trip one week before we left. Albania is known for its raw nature, mountains, and coast. Visiting mountains in the north part at the mid of the October was not an option … ... read more »
This article is about encrypting Satl external pillars with NACL. TL;DR 🔗︎# Salt NACL is based on another SaltStack project libnacl , an wrapper for libsodium and Salt nacl resources (module , runner , renderer and ext_pillar ). Overview of merged features to develop branch: NACL module, runner … ... read more »
TL;DR# An overview how to implement salt-formula test's with kitchen-salt. Overview# In this article I will talk about writing and testing https://github.com/salt-formulas[salt-formulas ]. An curated collection of formulas behind salt-formulas community. The concepts however will fit to any salt … ... read more »
On ubuntu 16.04 is still an old version of OpenSSH client that don’t support include statement’s on it’s .ssh/config. I manage my dotfiles in git repos and one such is .ssh/config.d. The script below is capable take that repo as source and generate the configuration. ... read more »
Recently I wrote an handy script to pre-open byobu session window to most of the minions. And split pane on each minion that create’s cluster. ... read more »
Docker Swarm# I have been working closely with TCP Cloud in my spare time during past weeks to evaluate Docker Swarm cluster orchestration. Kind of easy level to get some insight into the product and it’s bugs ;). Yeah.. it’s not production ready yet! Anyway I am going to deliver a sweet talk and … ... read more »
LEVEL DEVil workshops# Running a DevOps workshop for Poland colleagues in March was a one thing but from a day one I was quite sure I will do have to repeat it locally. Practicing DevOps and Continuous Delivery in company as IBM and for the enterprise customers might be a tough task. That’s nothing … ... read more »
DevOps workshop with Chef# At the end of the 2015 I was asked by IBM colleague from Poland who is leading a team of Java developers to develop and deliver a DevOps workshop. I took a challenge and delivered March 9-10 in Warsaw personally. The slides from the event are available at: … ... read more »
Work in progress… I am now working on DevOps workshop that would show up Chef, Consul, Docker possibilities in DEV and orchestration together with KitchenCI and InSpec testing and auditing. As a first stage I created my own version for DevOps kung-fu presentation: … ... read more »
The url: https://gist.github.com/epcim One simple example by many ... read more »
As my Django site from 2006 or so went recently south I decided to to make it up from scratch. Original apealive.net website Even though I am now pretty solid in DevOps, applying it on low frequency used blog and keeping django running for years it’s overhead. I will rather spend that one with my … ... read more »
Expecting BABE, promo poster & trailer. Welcome BABE Došlo k chybě.# Nelze spustit JavaScript. \ ... read more »
Mikuláš pictures leaked - PDF. ... read more »
Jsme tři! A vy jste od 21:46 pasovaný na prarodiče, strýce a tetky. Měříme 51cm, Vážíme 3020g a jmenujeme se Mikuláš Michalec. Adrika i Mikuláš jsou v pořádku. Prý brnkačka za dvě kačky (říkali sestřičky). APe a M ... read more »
In the last year we were looking for new place for living. Today we just purchased it. The ground is located in Stará Boleslav and quite close to city center. We also have some pictures how it may look like once finished. Friends: ehm... The opening party is not yet planed :-) ... Location# … ... read more »
Nechali jsme si u Markéty S. udělat krásné fotky naší rozinky a její rodiny. A myslíme moc se to povedlo. Adrika měla jako vždy bezva náladu a tak to fakt jelo. Sluší jim to moc. APe se tam nakonec raubíř taky vnutil. Jak jinak. My už máme jasno. U fotografa zastavíme pravidelně. Není nad pořádný … ... read more »
Saturday was last ride this year. Rychlik p 1831 Jordán odjídí z Praha hl.n. v 8:43. Vlak nečeká na žádné přípoje. Uschova během přepravy rozířená přeprava spoluzavazadel, předevím jízdních kol. Praha-Hostivař 8:56 Čerčany 9:21 Beneov u Prahy 9:31 Střezimíř 10:14 Ve ctvrt na jedenact vyrazime ze … ... read more »
Some our friends says.. we haven't seen you with your Yeti yet. So here we go with pictures. Three months back we did bought Skoda Yeti 2.0 TDI. Eye-candy, isn't it? ... read more »
With feelings of "just" longer vacation we are back at home country. Adriana noted that it's cold and a minute later paced a question When this Europe vacation ends? Just for all our readers. We are in CR since 25.12. Since that time to Feb 06 we have been staying in our flat over night … ... read more »
Vydávám pdf verzi pamětí mojí babičky. Je to rodiná záležitost, ale třeba se najde i někdo jiný kdo se začte. Sestavené to je tak jak jsem dostal nakázáno podle číslování. Na konci jsou pak různé články a dopisy které publikovala v tisku. Open publication - Free publishing ... read more »
Summary# I have managed to grab Questions and Answers from scanned PDF version of real grammar book and create an Anki deck from it. Although OCR was not perfect at all I was able to restore 50% of all exercises using some smart reg ex replacements in vim editor. Publishing final deck is not … ... read more »
Working holiday on New Zealand - Y1m1# Autor: Petr Michalec, Adriana Michalcova Contacts: <a href="mailto:epcim@apealive.net" class="reference external">epcim@apealive.net, <a href="mailto:adrika@apealive.net" class="reference … ... read more »
Takže jsme se dali konečně do pohybu. Zatím uvádím kontakty kde jsme k zastižení. Blog z cest zatím publikujeme přes travelpod.com. internet telefon - (skype.com) cze_pmichalec email ape @ apealive.net (prijde to oboum) www stránky, blog http://apealive.net a http://www.travelpod.com/members/epcim … ... read more »
Patek 8.1.2010 Už se na Vás těšíme. Adrika slavi 18-tiny, Takze se sejdeme unas v 30pm. Akcicka, kalbicka. APe ... read more »
Je to nějakou dobu co jsem se zaměřil na výběr aplikace co by mi opět pomohl zapomenout zapomínat. Tenhle post jsem připravil jako návod pro všechny kamarády, kdo budou mít zájem se do toho taky pustit. Tak před deseti lety jsem si pořídil [1]_ sw Supermemo na učení anglických slovíček. Nutno … ... read more »
If nothing else, our first dance is online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TgyVdBeBVgk Došlo k chybě.# Nelze spustit JavaScript. \ ... read more »
Tak jsem právě nahrál novou verzi webu. Lucka s Karlem mne určitě utlučou, že jsem raději neupravoval fotografie z "večerníčkové" akce. Na ty se ovšem taky těším, takže jsou hned v pořadí. Co je na webu nového. Dokončena stránka tagů, upravena stránka bookmarků, lehce vylepšen vzhed a … ... read more »
Potřeboval jsem odstranit diakritiku z názvů souborů. Pod winxp s cygwinem (tr viz dále nefungoval a o příkazu unaccent jsem nevěděl). PS: Filtruji .svn adresáře. S unaccent by to bylo asi výrazně rychlejší. IFS je asi zbytečné. Umí si poradit s duplicitami. Adresáře neřeší. Výsledek vypadá takto: … ... read more »
Znáte to, občas je dobré si nějaká slovíčka zopakovat. Hledal jsem nějaký pěkný opensource co by mi vynahradil dnes už poněkud zastaralé a v linuxu nepodporované Supermemo . No a našel jsem minimálně dva pěkné kousky. Tak za týden se podělím o zkušenosti, teď mě čeká konverze znalostní databáze … ... read more »
Rozlučku organizuje svědek. Pozvaní dostali email, ostatní pokud jsem na někoho zapomenul, se tedy dostaví jako překvapení :-D** Termín : 11.4.2009 Plán : Odpolední program - motokáry v Letňanech - http://www.motokary.com Večerní program - "Na zlatou pivní Štreku Prahou" Možná a … ... read more »
Ahoj, dnes prakticky. Všichni fotíme. Mám v rukávu pár triků pro manipulaci s exif informací uloženou ve fotografii. Při zpracování fotek z Thajska jsem měl záběry z cca pěti fotoaparátů. Někteří autoři měnili čas fotoaparátu během přejezdů čaosových zón, jiní ne. Bylo třeba hromadně opravit čas ve … ... read more »
Rodinám a kamarádům - pár linků kde nás můžete sledovat na naší cestě: http://picasaweb.google.com/ape.prague/Thailand09_APeHroch http://picasaweb.google.com/ape.prague/Thailand09 Kde jsme co děláme se budeme snažit prezentovat na travelpod , menší denní události - pokud se dostaneme k internetu pak … ... read more »
** Adriana Dlouhá a Petr Michalec oznamují den svého sňatku 24.4.2009 v 15hod v Dřevčické tvrzi Dostaveníčko | Cesta | Program | Dary | Rozlučka | Kontakty | Karaoke Aktualizováno: 23/03/2009 - [A] Prosíme všechny pozvané o potvrzení účasti emailem na ape (At) apealive.net. [B] Link na fotografie z … ... read more »
Wau .. it just works. As was expected. Unbelievable 3:-o We are ready to begin. Let's go explore and generate bugs. huh.. And of course many thanks to folks behind: django, python, vim, linux, dojo and all other stuff I used. PMi ... read more »
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