My hands are sunburnt from riding around on a bicycle. Damn. I've been putting on sun block religiously, but I guess I must've sweated it off. I have a new fondness for aloe vera. I've also learned two interesting facts:
Fact 1 - Cayman is, on the island, pronounce like "k-man" not "k-men", which imidiately marks you as a tourist.
Fact 2 - Conch is pronounced "conk" (the h is silent).
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.
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
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.
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