Remembering Chester
A year ago today we had to say goodbye to our little dog Chester. I know, it's sad, and I'm sorry. Dogs don't get to live as long as we do and it's just not fair. He was a great little guy
Using GitHub mirrors with Bazel
If you use Bazel for builds, the https://releases.bazel.build and https://bcr.bazel.build certs expired today...and have not yet been renewed (see https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/28101). Any builds with Bazel will break because of this. I discovered this myself while working on something
xbox
Disabling Xbox Game Hubs
I've been an Xbox owner since 2010 starting with an Xbox 360 to my current Xbox Series X. One constant has been how you launch games: you select a game from the home screen with the controller, press the A button and the game starts. Simple! In June
GitHub
Validating packer templates with GitHub Actions
I setup a GitHub Action for my packer-aws-windows-openssh project last month and it was working pretty well until a recent job failed with this: Run packer init ./aws-windows-ssh.pkr.hcl Failed getting the "github.com/hashicorp/amazon" plugin: 1 error occurred: * Plugin host rate limited the plugin getter.
powershell
Running PSScriptAnalyzer in GitHub Actions
I was working on a project recently that has some PowerShell scripts and I wanted to add some kind of linting for PRs, as you do. The go-to for PowerShell seems to be PSScriptAnalyzer and it's something I've already setup in VS Code. Great! The next
docker
Installing a specific version of CMake in a docker image
Sometime last year I needed to get a specific version of CMake (3.6.2) installed in a CentOS 7 Docker image. The Docker image (via a Dockerfile) was being used in a Jenkins declarative pipeline. The version of the CMake yum package for CentOS 7 is 2.8.12.
ansible
Install Docker on Ubuntu with Ansible
I like to use Docker as much as possible for Jenkins builds since it simplifies the agent infrastructure – the agents just need to have git, java (jdk or jre) and Docker installed. I typically install Docker on Ubuntu via the instructions on the Docker website. The instructions recommend using the
jenkins
Recommendations for MSBuild in a Jenkins pipeline
MSBuild has a lot of command line options that are relevant when building in a Jenkins pipeline. A useful command argument to set is /nodeReuse:false. This ensures that MSBuild.exe exits after being called. The default is true and is meant to reduce the startup time for subsequent builds.
nginx
Nginx reverse proxy settings for Jenkins CLI
If you run Jenkins in the cloud or locally, chances are good that you have it behind a reverse proxy, typicaly Nginx. Nginx is the goto for this sort of thing and the Jenkins docs have decent recommendation for setting it up. If you want to connect to Jenkins remotely
Denise Horrell: 1937-2017
Denise Horrell: 1937-2017
SmartOS
Creating a Custom FreeBSD 10 ISO with Automated Installation
Last month I was working on a FreeBSD 10.1 KVM image for SmartOS, SmartDataCenter and the Joyent Public Cloud. The first version of the image was released a few weeks ago and I'd like to share how I went about building the image. More specifically, I'
Ghost
Switching over from Textpattern to Ghost
I recently switched Horrell.ca from Textpattern to Ghost. Chances are there are a bunch of broken links to files and such. I'm still tweaking and fixing things and reworking the site design, so expect more changes in the coming months :) For anyone else who wants to attempt