fardjad

Resources

Controllers

In Kubernetes, controllers are control loops that watch the state of your cluster, then make or request changes where needed. Each controller tries to move the current cluster state closer to the desired state

Kubernetes provides the following controllers:

Deployment

fardjad

Debian sid with systemd on WSL2

Instructions for running Debian sid with systemd on WSL2

⚠️ Note: WSL now supports systemd

Instructions

1. Make sure you're running Windows 10 Build 19041+ (run ver)
2. Enable the Windows Subsystem for Linux (reboot if needed):

fardjad

How to install ICE - SSB Manager on Debian

Steps required to build and install ICE SSB on Debian Linux and its derivatives

Steps

1. Install the dependencies

    apt install build-essential devscripts
    apt install python3 python3-gi python3-requests python3-bs4 python3-lxml
   

apt install chromium-browser

fardjad

How to Enable Dark Theme on ElementaryOS

Instructions for enabling dark theme (almost) everywhere on ElementaryOS

Pantheon Apps

1. Replace the contents of /usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/io.elementary.pantheon.AccountsService.xml with this file.
2. Replace the line <annotation name="org.freedesktop.Accounts.DefaultValue" value="0"/> with <annotation name="org.freedesktop.Accounts.DefaultValue" value="1"/> under PreferColorScheme section.

Source

fardjad

⚠️ Note: Since the merge of the commit Homebrew/homebrew-core#149670, starting Colima is as easy as running brew services start colima. You can skip the following work-around.

Steps

1. Create an executable script to run in foreground and manage colima:

cat <<-EOF | sudo tee /usr/local/bin/colima-start-fg
#!/bin/bash

fardjad

How to Install Homebrew on Debian-based Distros

Steps required to install Homebrew on MX Linux (and other Debian-based distros)

Steps

1. Update apt cache and optionally do a full upgrade

    apt update
   

apt full-upgrade # optional, reboot if needed

fardjad

Example

Requirements

• Node.js 18+
• tree-sitter
• tree-sitter-cpp

index.mjs

fardjad

Steps

DOCKER_REGISTRY="registry.example.com"
PROJECT_NAME="hello-world"

# List the templates
faas-cli template store list --official --recommended --verbose=true

TEMPLATE="node18"

fardjad

Debugging and Authoring Helm Charts and Post Rendering Hooks with Viddy

Helm CLI comes with a template sub-command that outputs the YAML it generates without installing the Chart. This is very useful for debugging templates and writing Post Renderer scripts.

Here is a basic example to illustrate its usage:

helm template --generate-name /path/to/your/chart/directory --post-renderer /path/to/your/post-render.sh

fardjad

Considerations for Running Postgres on NFS

Background

Over the weekend, I decided to try running a Postgres database in my Homelab. In my current setup, the most convenient option for storage is NFS. However, NFS is especially tricky for databases. A misconfigured setup can lead to performance or data corruption issues.

After watching