Docker and DNS - it's all in the network
Last month, my team and I worked through a problem that a client was seeing building Docker images.Specifically, they were able to build but NOT push the images to Docker Hub.The main symptom that they...
View ArticleTinkering with Docker in Bash with a side-order of Sed and Awk
Just tidying up some documentation ....Want to list all of the containers running on your Docker server ?docker ps -a | sed 1d | awk '{print...
View ArticleVNC Viewer on macOS - Who knew ?
Whilst helping a colleague with a VNC-related question, I discovered that macOS has built-in support for VNC, via the Finder -> Connect to Server option.VNC URLs look like this:...
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AirPods - Wax On, Wax Off
I wasn't sure whether my hearing was on the blink, or whether my AirPods gen. 2 were starting to failI was finding that all of podcasts, including @podfeet dulcet tones were mainly coming out in the...
View ArticleMainframerZ meetup *online* - Mainframe skillZ at home
Join us for our 6th MainframerZ meetup on Thursday 30th April at 17:30 BST (London). This will be our 2nd event online after the significant success of our first last month.This event will be centred...
View ArticleIBM Middleware User Community - Upcoming Events
Metrics for the win! Apr 30, 2020 from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM (ET)Understanding application behavior is important in any environment. The most efficient way to observe application behavior relies on...
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IBM Cloud Hyper Protect - Some tasty new demos
For a little look at the things upon which my team and I are working, I give you .....These, and more, demos on https://www.ibm.com/demos/ Nice!
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What Is - from IBM Developers
IBM Developer Advocate Sean Tracey previews a new short-form video series that will explain key technologies and concepts. Build Smart. Join a global community of developers at...
View ArticleBuild and deploy a Docker image on Kubernetes using Tekton Pipelines
I've been tinkering with Tekton this past few weeks, and have found a bunch of useful resources including: -Build and deploy a Docker image on Kubernetes using Tekton PipelinesTekton is an open source...
View ArticleLooking up nslookup
I regularly need to install tools and utilities onto newly-built Ubuntu boxes, and was looking for the nslookup tool today ....I'd tried installing it via net-tools apt-get update && apt-get...
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Running COBOL on ....
There's been a splurge of interest in COBOL recently, and especially in acquiring COBOL skills.Now I learned COBOL in college in the late 80s, and have barely ever looked at it since, apart from a...
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Docker and Node and macOS - Computer Said No
I'm using a Docker container that runs a NodeJS application to lint-check YAML files relating to my new best friend, Tekton CD.This container is run as follows: -docker run --volume $(PWD):/foo --rm...
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More on the old ToDo list - tinkering with Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
Having spent a few years working on "pure" Kubernetes, I also need to get up-to-speed with RH OCP ....I've spun up a cluster on the IBM Cloud, now need to get around to using/learning it ...To me, OCP...
View ArticleWebcast - Keep your data yours – IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Services - 16 June 2020
One of my esteemed colleagues, Stefan Liesche, who is the IBM Distinguished Engineer for IBM Cloud Hyper Protect Services is presenting next week: -With the introduction of Hyper Protect Services as...
View ArticleWant to learn COBOL ? Here's how ...
During yesterday's most excellent MainframerZ Meetup, one of our speakers, Will Yates, talked about the COBOL enablement available via the Open Mainframe Project.Here it is: -The COBOL Training Course...
View ArticleSomething to read/do later - learn to use the iter8 toolchain with Kubernetes
A colleague drew my attention to iter8 Automate canary releases and A/B testing for cloud-native developmentvia this tutorial: -Progressively roll out your application in Kubernetes by using the iter8...
View ArticleDemo: Z DevOps using Git and Jenkins pipeline - 17 June 2020
The objective of this session is to demonstrate the power of collaborative development and delivery enabled by the IBM Z for DevOps solutions. Application teams can learn how they can modernize...
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Building Kubernetes - Getting it to Go right ....
I'm currently building Kubernetes from source, on an Ubuntu box.Having cloned the repo: -mkdir -p $(go env GOPATH)/src/k8s.iocd $(go env GOPATH)/src/k8s.iogit clone...
View ArticleApple iMovie and the Ken Burns effect
PSA: If using iMovie to create ... movies from screen recordings taken using [cmd][shift][5] be aware of the auto-cropping, including the so-called Ken Burns...
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Mockers ride again
I'm tinkering with Java at the moment, using Microsoft Visual Studio Code ( my "new" fave IDE-of-choice ), and am looking at mocking specific HTTP services and calls .....To that end...
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