Let's get started by creating service account credentials in the GCP console, next we will import the account credentials into a kubernetes secret, and finally reference the secret in our kubernetes deployment manifest.…
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There is a lot going on the the title of this post and there has been a lot of talk lately about the Internet of…
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Creating a GIF from QuickTime Screen Recording in macOS…
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One of the initial features I wanted was some way for the home and I to communicate. The Google Home seemed to allow bi-directional communication in the sense that I could speak commands and it could be a speaker to broadcast notifications or report other home metrics or SIRENS.…
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Lately I've been on a ancient history kick and while daydreaming about visiting Egypt in person I was curious to find out that only small percentage of hieroglyphics have been translated.…
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I realized the cluster was using the maximum number of worker nodes (NodeAutoScalingGroupMaxSize) specified in the CloudFormation template. After contacting support they informed me there is a setting in the template to control the desired capacity (DesiredCapacity).…
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I had the hardest time finding examples of how to connect to MongoDB via the command line and via a connection string in code. So I've compiled some helpful MongoDB commands here. For creating a database, creating a user, and connecting to the database.…
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While building an app for work I ran into a scenario that required a drop down box that is searchable and since we are using…
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In a previous post I discussed how to view and change the configuration context that kubectl is currently using. In this post I'll be going…
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Download the AWS RDS Certificate Bundle https://s3.amazonaws.com/rds-downloads/rds-combined-ca-bundle.pem Install KeyStore Explorer After installing you will need to run KeyStore Explorer…
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