In this article I will demonstrate how to take a Terraform configuration that is using a local state file and migrate its persistent state to a remote Google Cloud Storage bucket (GCS). We will then perform the migration again, but this time to bring the remote state back to a local file. We will illustrate … Terraform: migrate state from local to remote Google Cloud Storage bucket and back
Starting with OpenWrt 21, a specific list of chipsets starting using DSA (Distributed Switch Architecture) from the Linux kernel instead of swconfig. This significantly changes the way switches and vlan are handled in OpenWrt, and therefore system configurations cannot always be migrated. Trying to run sysupgrade on a chipset that is changing from swconfig to … OpenWrt: upgrading to latest version when chipset migrated to DSA support
If you have ever considered moving from WordPress to the Hugo static site generator, you can preview this migration by running Hugo on your local Ubuntu host. This will allow you to assess whether you can find suitable replacements for the WordPress plugins you have come to rely upon, validate your content syntax, and tweak … Hugo: exporting a WordPress blog to a static Hugo site on Ubuntu
If you have ever considered moving from WordPress to the Jekyll static site generator, you can preview this migration by running jekyll on your local Ubuntu host. This will allow you to assess whether you can find suitable replacements for the WordPress plugins you have come to rely upon, validate your content syntax, and tweak … Jekyll: exporting a WordPress blog to a static Jekyll site on Ubuntu
Migrating from one Python 3.x version to a newer 3.x minor version seems like it would just be a simple ‘apt install’ of the latest Python package. But you most likely have pip modules installed at a version specific ‘dist-packages’ or ‘site-packages’ directory, and those modules have to be freshly installed into the newer version … Python: migrating pip modules to newer Python version on Ubuntu
The ‘gcloud compute instances move‘ command is convenient for moving VM instances from one region to another, but only works within a narrow scope of OS image types and disks. For example, only older non-UEFI OS images can be moved with this command. Trying to move even the simplest Ubuntu bionic/focal or Debian bullseye/buster VM … GCP: Moving a VM instance to a different region using snapshots