Decrypting Ansible vault by entering a password every time is a hassle. Another alternative – using a password file to store password – isn't good either, as it isn't secure to store a vault password in plain text. Turned out, Ansible allows passing a script to --vault-password-file that
Since the early days of my software engineering career I was trying different ways to automate setup of my workstations. The first attempt that served me well, but was quite basic, included just a github repo with all my dotfiles plus a bash script to automate symlinking of these configs.
I recently read “100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them” by Teiva Harsanyi, which I first heard about in the Golang Weekly Newsletter. At first, I was skeptical that it might be just another cookbook-style book, but it turned out to be much more. All of the mistakes are
A couple of years ago when I just started familiarizing myself with kubernetes, I found minikube. It let you deploy a local kubernetes cluster within a virtual machine. But I didn’t manage to make it work. There were, among others, some issues with compiling of libvirt and kernel modules
I broke my iPhone recently, and the worst thing is that there were around 60GB of photos and videos inside… But, lucky me, I did a complete backup of it a month ago. You might ask: “Why don’t you just upload your photos to iCloud? It’s cheap, simple,
I’ve been using Vim heavily in the last two month. In order to not waste a lot of time looking up a certain feature or key combination, I came up with the idea to create a cheatsheet page for that. So here it is. I hope you’ll find
I stumbled across this wonderful thing on the internet completely by chance: Mastering vim. This is a short (about 3.5 hours) video course on vim by Damian Conway. According to him, he's been hooked on vi/vim for 30 years (I was quite surprised). And that means