Technology

Downloading files on a dodgy network connection

Apr 19, 2022 commandline scripting

Downloading Files on a Dodgy Network Connection. I was on holiday this weekend and the place we stayed didn't have a strong internet connection. It was good enough for browsing, but not good enough for multiple people streaming stuff off of the internet. So we wanted to pull down some files from our media library …

Installing Openshift into a VM

Jan 28, 2022 Kubernetes Openshift

Installing OpenShift on a VirtualBox VM I keep hearing the word OpenShift at work. I don't know what it means. First instinct is to try and get something up and running. I spent about a week and a half scouring the internet for some good instructions and tried a few things. Here's my findings. (I'll probably do a …

Getting Started with Kube #1 - Base Software

Mar 9, 2021 Kubernetes Containers

Method 1 - Docker Desktop Easiest way is to use Docker Desktop 3.2.1 and enable kubernetes in the preferences, but if you want to see whats happening under the hood I prefer to use this old Virtualbox/Vagrant method. Method 2 - VirtualBox Vagrant Tested on Mac (x86_64) 11.2.2 Big Sur Virtualbox 6.1.18 Vagrant 2.2.14 …

Scaling Macbook Resolution on an Ultrawide in HiDpi

Mar 2, 2021 Macbook

So bit of background. I like Mac's retina (otherwise known as HiDPI under the hood) display. Even when on a non-native resolution, I feel its sharper than running on the low DPI setting. I've bought monitors in the past (a lovely Dell, 2560x1440) and had to cave to the fact that I could not run retina/HiDPI at anything …

Monolith to Microservice 4b

Mar 4, 2019 Containers .NET Core Docker

Setting up the monolith pipleine (Azure DevOps Pipelines) In Episode 1, we created a Monolith application in .NET Core two do some simple Maths on two supplied numbers. Episode 2, we showed how to use Docker and Dockerfiles to docker-is the application ready to run either on a Developers Laptop or on a Docker Host or …

Monolith to Microservice 4a

Mar 3, 2019 Containers .NET Core Docker

Setting up the Monolith Pipeline (TDD) In Episode 1, we created a Monolith application in .NET Core two do some simple Maths on two supplied numbers. Episode 2, we showed how to use Docker and Dockerfiles to docker-is the application ready to run either on a Developers Laptop or on a Docker Host or Docker Cloud …

Monolith to Microservices 1

Mar 2, 2019 Containers .NET Core

This is a new series I’ve decided to write, which covers the current experiment I’m running with .NET Core 2.1, Azure DevOps, Docker and eventually Kubernetes. I want to demonstrate how we break up a simplified example of a monolithic application containing self hosted WebAPI services into a number of microservices. …

Monolith to Microservices 3

Mar 2, 2019 Containers .NET Core Docker

Setting up a private docker registry In parts 1 and 2 of this series, we’ve coded up a simple .NET Core 2 web application, containing some services, and we’ve dockerised it and its stored on our local docker image library. Cool. Now, what happens if we want to be able to share that unit of execution with other members …

Monolith to Microservices 2

Mar 2, 2019 Containers .NET Core Docker

Dockerising the Monolith Docker as a technology seems to divide the community, some say its a good solution to the problem of packaging up your software that collects all of your dependencies and then stamps them into a repeatable deployable package….others say its been done before with other technologies or that its a …

Another Nano Server Post….(this time using Virtualbox/Windows 2016 TP4)

Jan 29, 2016 Server Admin Nano

Microsoft has yet to release an iso that allows you to install Nano Server onto a server. The standard method seems to be to create a VHD and then use that to run Nano. I was at a conference the other day, and managed to work through the process of getting a server up and running in VirtualBox 5. Lets go: On a Windows …