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Convert AWS IAM credentials to AWS SMTP credentials

If you do, or want to, use AWS to deploy your apps, you will end up using AWS SES via SMTP when you're launching an app that sends out emails of any kind (user registrations, email notifications, etc). For example, I have used this configuration on various Ruby on Rails apps, however, it is just basic SMTP configurations and crosses over to any framework that supports SMTP sendmail.

There are two ways to go about this:

EASY WAY: Create an SMTP user via AWS SES [http://docs.aws.amazon.com/ses/latest/DeveloperGuide/smtp-credentials.html#smtp-credentials-console]
NOT SO EASY WAY: Create an SMTP password for an existing IAM user [^^ Same link scroll down]

Luckily, you found this MD file and the NOT SO EASY WAY is suddenly copy-pasta... sudo yum....

Creating Neat .NET Core Command Line Apps

You can now read this on my (pretty) website! Check it out here.

Every reason to get more HackerPoints™ is a good one, so today we're going to write a neat command line app in .NET Core! The Common library has a really cool package Microsoft.Extensions.CommandlineUtils to help us parse command line arguments and structure our app, but sadly it's undocumented.

No more! In this guide, we'll explore the package and write a really neat

1.) Download a Nerd Font

2.) Unzip and copy to ~/.fonts

3.) Run the command fc-cache -fv to manually rebuild the font cache

Git Subtree Basics

If you hate git submodule, then you may want to give git subtree a try.

Background

When you want to use a subtree, you add the subtree to an existing repository where the subtree is a reference to another repository url and branch/tag. This add command adds all the code and files into the main repository locally; it's not just a reference to a remote repo.

When you stage and commit files for the main repo, it will add all of the remote files in the same operation. The subtree checkout will pull all the files in one pass, so there is no need to try and connect to another repo to get the portion of subtree files, because they were already included in the main repo.

Adding a subtree

Let's say you already have a git repository with at least one commit. You can add another repository into this respository like this:

Rancher K8s Cluster on VMware vSphere

Prerequisites

vCenter Configuration

Configure the Network Protocol Profile on the vCenter according to: https://www.virtualthoughts.co.uk/2020/03/29/rancher-vsphere-network-protocol-profiles-and-static-ip-addresses-for-k8s-nodes/
Ensure to create a service user with the regarding global and folder specific permissions: https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/cluster-provisioning/rke-clusters/node-pools/vsphere/provisioning-vsphere-clusters/creating-credentials/
- Beside the vCenter role permissions from the official Rancher documentation, the following ones need to be provided in order to configure the Nodes via vApp options:
  - Content Library: Read storage
  - Extension: Register extension
vSphere Tagging: Assign or Unassign vSphere Tag on Object

	using System;
	using System.Collections.Generic;
	using System.Collections.Immutable;
	using System.Linq;
	using System.Text;
	using System.Threading.Tasks;
	using HellBrick.Diagnostics.UnusedReferences;
	using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis;
	using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.Diagnostics;
	using Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.MSBuild;

	namespace Analogy
	{
	/// <summary>
	/// This example shows that a library that needs access to target .NET Standard 1.3
	/// can only access APIs available in that .NET Standard. Even though similar the APIs exist on .NET
	/// Framework 4.5, it implements a version of .NET Standard that isn't compatible with the library.
	/// </summary>INetCoreApp10
	class Example1
	{
	public void Net45Application(INetFramework45 platform)

	Use this as an example on how to start the virtual console without the need of Java Web Start or accessing it from the web interface.
	You can use the user and password that you use for the web interface.

	You need an old JRE... I used 1.7.0_80 from the Server JRE package, also I have tested successfully 1.7.0_79 with MacOS.
	You don't need to install it, just extract it or copy the files in "jre" folder.

	Open the viewer.jnlp file that you get by launching the virtual console from the web interface with a text editor.
	Note the urls to the jar files. Download the main jar file avctKVM.jar and the libs for your operating system and architecture.
	Extract the dlls (.so Linux, .jnilib MacOS) from the jar libs.

	public class DistributedMutex {
	private readonly string key;
	private readonly string storageConnectionString;
	private readonly string storageContainerName;
	private CloudBlobClient blobClient;
	private string leaseId;

	public DistributedMutex(string storageConnectionString, string storageContainerName, string key)
	{
	this.key = key;

	#!/bin/bash
	target=${1:-http://example.com}
	while true # loop forever, until ctrl+c pressed.
	do
	for i in $(seq 100) # perfrom the inner command 100 times.
	do
	curl $target > /dev/null & # send out a curl request, the & indicates not to wait for the response.
	done

	wait # after 100 requests are sent out, wait for their processes to finish before the next iteration.