Gitlab has an official CLI tool that allows you to perform many of the operations you may currently perform in the web UI. Among its many uses, the ‘glab‘ utility will allow you to fork repositories, manage issues, merge PR, and create releases all from the console for ease of use or automation. Below I … GitLab: glab official CLI tool for repository operations
If you are using Linux with graphical X interface and need to copy to the clipboard, the ‘xclip‘ utility works similar to ‘pbcopy’ on a Mac terminal and will place the content unto your clipboard. Here is the basic usage: sudo apt install xclip -y # copies to clipboard echo “hello” | xclip -selection clipboard … Linux: xclip to place content on the clipboard
The GitHub “Release” page for a repository can provide your consumers a convenient way to download a binary version of your software as well as track the latest changes and enhancements. In this article, I will show how to invoke a local release process for a Go language binary. A new Github release will be … Github: locally invoked release process for a Go binary
GitHub has a CLI tool that allows you to perform many of the operations you may currently perform in the web UI. Among its many uses, the ‘gh‘ utility will allow you to fork repositories, modify issues, merge PR, and create releases all from the console for ease of use or automation. Below I will … GitHub: CLI tool for repository operations
If you have just virtualized the VMware ESXi server on top of KVM, the next step will be to install vCenter for its centralized control and additional feature set and management capabilities. In my last article we took KVM running on bare metal and deployed an ESXi 7.0 host on top of it. In this … KVM: Deploy the VMware vCenter 7.0 appliance using the CLI installer
Managing resources in Azure from the command line can be done natively from Ubuntu using the Azure CLI. First, add the prerequisite packages. sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ca-certificates curl apt-transport-https lsb-release gnupg -y Then install the Microsoft signing key and add the custom repository. curl -sL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg –dearmor | sudo tee … Azure: installing the Azure CLI on Ubuntu
If you need to call attention to a message within your script, a splash of color is often the best way to get noticed in the sea of monochrome text. The standard ANSI escape codes are supported at most consoles, and in its simplest form can be used like this: RED=’\033[0;31m’ GREEN=’\033[0;32m’ NC=’\033[0m’ echo -e … Bash: Outputting text in color for readability
Especially when writing small Python utility programs, it can be tempting to use sys.argv to retrieve a small list of positional parameters from the command line. But small utilities turn into successful tools over time, and manually parsing optional parameters and switches will quickly overwhelm your code logic. In this article I will show how … Python: Parsing command line arguments with argparse
The vSphere web GUI is a nice visual tool, but if you need to retrieve vCenter information in bulk or perform mass operations across VMs, then a command line tool such as govc in invaluable. govc is written in Go, which means it has support on Linux as well as most other platforms.
If you receive this error upon trying to run commands from the CloudFoundry CLI: “Error read/writing config: unexpected end of JSON input” This is most likely due to an error in the “$HOME/.cf/config.json” file. Make sure the user has full ownership: ls -l ~/.cf/config.json chown $USER:$USER ~/.cf/config.json chmod 755 ~/.cf/config.json And if that does not … CloudFoundry: CLI error, unexpected end of JSON input
The AWS CLI provides a comprehensive command set, but if you want advanced functionality such as checking if an object already exists before you create it, or polling an instance until it is a certain state then you will need a slightly higher level of abstraction. My aws-common-funcs.sh script provides a set of Bash functions … AWS: Bash helper functions for common AWS CLI calls
BOSH is a project that unifies release, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud based software. It also serves as the underlying infrastructure for deploying the CloudFoundry PaaS. In this article, I will lead you through deploying the BOSH Director to Amazon EC2 which is the first step in deploying both CloudFoundry CFAR as well as CFCR … CloudFoundry: Installing a BOSH Director on AWS
Amazon EC2 provides a web interface for managing IaaS, but for repeatable infrastructure deployment what you really want is the ability to deploy and manage this infrastructure using an API or command line tool. In this article we want to focus on the CLI (command line interface), which shields us from the API innards and … AWS: Installing the AWS CLI on Ubuntu
Update Nov 2021: I have written a newer article that deploys vCenter 7.0. If you have just virtualized the VMware ESXi 6.7 server on top of KVM, the next step will be to install vCenter 6.7 for its centralized control and additional feature set and management capabilities. In my last article we took KVM running … KVM: Deploy the VMware vCenter 6.7 appliance using the CLI installer
BOSH is a project that unifies release, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud based software. In this article I will describe how to install BOSH unto VirtualBox. This implementation is often called “BOSH Lite” because it internally uses containers to emulate VMs.
Update Jan 2019: Instead of these instructions, please see my newer article for local BOSH installation on VirtualBox using CLI v2. BOSH is a project that unifies release, deployment, and lifecycle management of cloud based software. The BOSH CLI v1 is now older and has been replaced with CLI v2, so if you want … CloudFoundry: Install BOSH CLI v1 and BOSH Lite on Ubuntu
Cloud Foundry is an opinionated Platform-as-a-Service that allows you to manage applications at scale. It supports multiple infrastructure platforms, and is able to standardize deployment, logging, scaling, and routing in a way friendly to a continuous delivery pipeline. This article is Part 1 of a series on Cloud Foundry concepts: Deploying the spring-music webapp, Part 1 … CloudFoundry: Deploying the spring-music webapp, Part 1