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TL;DR While reasoning is important, readers may not be interested in all the frustrations I experienced while figuring out how to get things done. If you’re looking for a quick solution, skip to the “What eventually worked?” section. However, if you’re interested in the thought process behind the solution, keep reading. NVM is nice and simple, how hard it might be to get it working with CI/CD? Over the past few days, I’ve been working on providing nvm for both my company’s Docker base images and for CI/CD....

I switched recently from Docker Desktop on my MacBook to Rancher Desktop. The most important reason for me to do it, was possibility to gently switch between docker and containerd runtimes. There’s still one feature that I miss on Rancher Desktop - possibility to change Docker daemon configuration. I used to enable experimental features1 and BuildKit2. Sadly, there’s no easy way to do it on Rancher… But there’s a magical way3....

IMO people don’t understand how VOLUME1 works so they don’t use it. It’s generally used far too rarely! In short VOLUME means two things: Whatever is left in directory marked as VOLUME, stays there and can’t be changed in later layers (actually it can be changed but changes won’t be persistent). Volumes are not part of layered image FS. They’re mounted as anonymous volumes located on standard file system. This means they’re working much faster....

People often complain, that building Docker image takes a long time. “I just added a single jar package” they say… Really? They often don’t remember that whole “build context”1 is uploaded to Docker daemon during build, which often means they’re not only adding “single jar”, but also all sources, test results and whatever they have in working directory. Solution is simple - to use .dockerignore file2. Syntax is similar to ....

I’ve been thinking for a long time about writing set of articles on the topic of: “Dockerfile writing best practices”. As it’s often my daily job to prepare best in class containers, that are later used by thousands of company’s applications, I have quite good insights on the topic. Some experience and knowledge gathered is often against intuition and building it took me a while. I want to share it, with a hope that feedback I get will allow me to excel on the topic even further....

Auta się zmieniają a problemy z nimi pozostają te same :) Kasowanie ostrzeżenia wymiany oleju 1 Przekręcić kluczyk w stacyjce do drugiej pozycji, gdy zapalają się wszystkie kontrolki (nie uruchamiamy silnika). Wciskamy równocześnie pedały hamulca i gazu do oporu, trzymamy do zakończenia procesu. Pojawi komunikat o rozpoczęciu resetowania inspekcji. Możemy zatwierdzić OK. Czekamy aż pojawi się komunikat: Zatwierdzamy OK. Dopiero teraz zwalniamy pedały. https://forum.fordclubpolska.org/showthread.php?t=108532 ↩︎

What I want to do? I use my pool to securely store backups, archive my old documents and keep huge family’s photo library. I have new disks. They were tortured with badblocks, so they’re ready to create ZFS pool. I’ve read few documents about different approaches 1 2 3. I wanted to be sure if anything changed during past years. One of articles recommends mirroring over RAIDZ. Resilvering is faster, at the same time putting IO less stress on whole pool....

I used to have RAID (or at least some variation of it) for my main storage. For redundancy, in case of disk failure. I started with some crazy LVM mirrors done on two disks of different size. Sync job was starting on every boot 😄 Then came time for RAID5 on mdadm + LVM for volume management. It was working nice until the moment when disks became bigger. Long array rebuilds or checks, required my PC to stay turned on overnight just to validate if stuff works still....

Few years ago I moved from Linux desktop to MacOS for my business, day to day work. There were 2 main reasons for that: Corporations don’t like Linux - they can’t manage it, they can’t support it, so they blocked it with “Security policy”, ISO20001, or other nonsense. Actually they’re partially right but in different place - many business collaboration applications don’t work well on LInux (or they don’t work at all) Skype for Business - there’s open source alternative but to get full support you have to pay for additional codecs (as far as I remember) - it’s not working stable even in paid version Outlook and calendar support - I love Thunderbird and I use it for years, but calendar invitations didn’t work nice (honestly, they didn’t work nice even between different Outlook versions…) Corporate VPN apps - Christ, I always was able to get it working eventually, but… why bother I’m older, maybe lazier, maybe smarter - I don’t like to spend my time resolving problems that don’t give me any value....

It happen to me all the time that one of developers notifies me about some kind of problem that I can’t confirm from my account. Sometimes it was because of bad ssh keys configuration, other times file permissions, mostly such stuff. It’s sometimes convenient to “enter into someone’s shoes” to see what’s going on there. If you’re root on machine you may do that like this: su developer - Easy one but that’s not enough for all cases....