Email Trouble
I didn't have my email set up on the new server properly so if anyone was trying to contact me and got an error message, that's why.
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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.
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
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.
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