The other day I was playing around in WSL with a colleague of mine and we did this:
[Read More]Windows Subsystem For Linux 2: Debian+Podman
The problem: Docker itself can’t be run in WSL2 as it requires the docker daemon, usually run though systemd.
The solution: Podman works just fine and can easily be installed, although we will need to configure some things to make it work properly.
[Read More]Going Part Time
(Re)starting my indie journey
Starting on the first of March 2022 I no longer work full-time in my day job.
That sentence has been about a year in the making and makes me both happy and a bit scared about the future.
I have been doing some side-hustle and projects since I’ve been 16 building websites with my dad, so you could say it has been a long time coming.
Right now I have set myself three mid-term goals to build up something that brings me joy and financial independence.
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Simple HTTP Status Monitor Using Curl
Local User Management Polyfill
Older Versions of Windows 10 and all Windows Server 2012 systems have no local user management commandlets.
This is a working polyfill to allow scripts using local user management to run on old systems.
Local S3 with MinIO in Django
In production I would consider it best practice to use a S3 solution for serving assets. Namely static files and user-generated media.
This describes my setup on how to do this locally too.
The main benefit for me is that there is less of a difference between environments and I can test S3 specific features in my app.
Setup I will assume a already working Django project and MacOS with [[brew]] installed, but brew specific parts are easilly replicated on different systems using their native package managers.
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Hidden WSL Fileshare
WSL file systems get exposed as a hidden share network share:
\\wsl$\<WSL Name>\<path\to\file>
For example, my Debian home folder is at: \\wsl$\Debian\home\kamner
Windows Terminal: Open New WSL Tab In Linux Home Folder
The path you are in when opening a new WSL tab is determined by startingDirectory. This parameter needs to be a valid Windows path, which isn’t great if we want to end up in /home/kamner inside WSL.
The nice thing about WSL is that it will resolve windows paths into their equivalent WSL/linux path if possible.
For example, C:\Scripts would resolve to /mnt/c/Scripts.
Using this and the neat trick that the WSL filesystem is exposed as a a hidden fileshare ([[technology/windows/wsl-hidden-fileshare]]) we can get to where we want.
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Resolve .local Through Nameserver With Netplan
When using netplan it is easy to force .local DNS requests to go to you nameservers instead of being only resolved locally (the default and standard).
This also works with all other strange .WHATEVER domains you may have lying around in your organization.
Snippet from netplan configuration:
nameservers:
addresses:
- X
- Y
search:
- local
- myotherstupiddomain
MongoDB Logrotate
MongoDB does not rotate it’s log on it’s own.
To get it to ratet we will use logrotate.
First, we need to configure some things in mongod.conf to get the desired behaviour when we utilize logrotate.
systemLog: destination: file path: /var/log/mongodb/mongod.log logAppend: true logRotate: reopen Afterwards, we can create a logroatet configuration going in /etc/logrotate.d/mongodb.
/var/log/mongodb/mongod.log { rotate 5 # Keep the last 5 rotated logs, so 6 files including the currently active size 10M # Rotate once the log reaches 10MB in size, depending on your envrionment you could instead use daily, weekly, monthly, etc missingok # It's ok if the log file does not exist create 0600 mongodb mongodb # Permissions and ownership for the roatetd logs delaycompress # Don't compress on first rotation, so we have the current log and log.
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