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blog/2021/09/08/why-i-threw-out-my-dotfiles/index.html

@@ -122,4 +122,4 @@
 </span></span><span style=display:flex><span>  };
 </span></span><span style=display:flex><span>}
 </span></span></code></pre></div><p>Save the file and run:</p><pre tabindex=0><code>home-manager switch
-</code></pre><p>You should see another wave of <code>/nix/store/*</code> paths. The new configuration should now be active.</p><p>If you run <code>zsh</code>, you should see that you have <a href=https://starship.rs/ class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>starship</a> and access to several other utils such as <code>rg</code>, <code>fd</code>, and <code>exa</code>.</p><p>This basic configuration above is also defining your <code>~/.config/git/config</code> and <code>.zshrc</code>. If you already have either of these files, home-manager will complain about them already existing.</p><p>If you run <code>cat ~/.zshrc</code>, you will see the way these configuration files are generated.</p><p>You can extend this configuration for programs such as (neo)vim, emacs, alacritty, ssh, etc. To see other programs, take a look at <a href=https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/tree/master/modules/programs class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>home-manager/modules/programs</a>.</p><h2 id=gateway-to-nix>Gateway To Nix<a href=#gateway-to-nix class=post-heading__anchor aria-hidden=true>#</a></h2><p>In ways, home-manager can be seen as a gateway to the nix ecosystem. If you have enjoyed the way you can declare user configuration with home-manager, you may be interested in expanding your configuration to include other system dependencies and configuration. For example, in Linux you can define your entire system&rsquo;s configuration (including the kernel, kernel modules, networking, filesystems, etc) in nix. For macOS, there is <a href=https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>nix-darwin</a> that includes nix modules for configuring launchd, dock, and other preferences and services. You may also want to check out <a href=https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>Nix Flakes</a>: a more recent feature that allows you declare dependencies, and have them automatically pinned and hashed in <code>flake.lock</code>, similar to that of many modern package managers.</p><h2 id=wrapping-up>Wrapping up<a href=#wrapping-up class=post-heading__anchor aria-hidden=true>#</a></h2><p>The title of this post is slightly misleading, since it&rsquo;s possible to retain some of your dotfiles and have them intermingle with home-manager by including them alongside nix. The idea of defining user configuration using nix can provide a clean way to maintain your configuration, and allow it to be portable across platforms. Is it worth the effort to migrate away from shell scripts and dotfiles? I&rsquo;d say so.</p></div><script type=text/javascript src=https://storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/widget/Widget_2.js></script><script type=text/javascript>kofiwidget2.init("Buy me a coffee","#458588","F1F2S4LWI"),kofiwidget2.draw()</script><section id=comments class=comments><div class='container sep-before'><div class=comments><script>var getTheme=window.localStorage&&window.localStorage.getItem("theme"),getTheme=getTheme??(window.matchMedia&&window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: light)").matches?"light":"dark"),getTheme=getTheme??"dark";let theme=getTheme==="dark"?"gruvbox-dark":"github-light",s=document.createElement("script");s.src="https://utteranc.es/client.js",s.setAttribute("repo","davegallant/davegallant.github.io"),s.setAttribute("issue-term","pathname"),s.setAttribute("theme",theme),s.setAttribute("crossorigin","anonymous"),s.setAttribute("async",""),document.querySelector("div.comments").innerHTML="",document.querySelector("div.comments").appendChild(s)</script></div></div></section></article></div><div class=sidebar></div></main><footer><div class=copyright>Dave Gallant</div></footer><script src=/js/main.4be06c129d6a89e60a661c6ac8c8e0434d58fb0fa2f685f85e2c306aca62adc5e77e7c63cb1c8a2cc5794ea42927281cf868514bcdce21ddf23dc3520e6743e7.js></script><script src=/js/flexsearch.4fd7ac1adbaa0c340287cb25bb9b138edbdbba390fd9c227d67a5c6ae446390942a1f2e90dff66a996d66f934f3ec15fd4d7b5c34dfd126af631626967f5442e.js></script><script defer src=https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js data-cf-beacon='{"token": "b96799f53f9940dca6f660e6052ba009"}'></script></div></body></html>
+</code></pre><p>You should see another wave of <code>/nix/store/*</code> paths. The new configuration should now be active.</p><p>If you run <code>zsh</code>, you should see that you have <a href=https://starship.rs/ class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>starship</a> and access to several other utils such as <code>rg</code>, <code>fd</code>, and <code>exa</code>.</p><p>This basic configuration above is also defining your <code>~/.config/git/config</code> and <code>.zshrc</code>. If you already have either of these files, home-manager will complain about them already existing.</p><p>If you run <code>cat ~/.zshrc</code>, you will see the way these configuration files are generated.</p><p>You can extend this configuration for programs such as (neo)vim, emacs, alacritty, ssh, etc. To see other programs, take a look at <a href=https://github.com/nix-community/home-manager/tree/master/modules/programs class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>home-manager/modules/programs</a>.</p><h2 id=gateway-to-nix>Gateway To Nix<a href=#gateway-to-nix class=post-heading__anchor aria-hidden=true>#</a></h2><p>In ways, home-manager can be seen as a gateway to the nix ecosystem. If you have enjoyed the way you can declare user configuration with home-manager, you may be interested in expanding your configuration to include other system dependencies and configuration. For example, in Linux you can define your entire system&rsquo;s configuration (including the kernel, kernel modules, networking, filesystems, etc) in nix. For macOS, there is <a href=https://github.com/LnL7/nix-darwin class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>nix-darwin</a> that includes nix modules for configuring launchd, dock, and other preferences and services. You may also want to check out <a href=https://nixos.wiki/wiki/Flakes class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>Nix Flakes</a>: a more recent feature that allows you declare dependencies, and have them automatically pinned and hashed in <code>flake.lock</code>, similar to that of many modern package managers.</p><h2 id=wrapping-up>Wrapping up<a href=#wrapping-up class=post-heading__anchor aria-hidden=true>#</a></h2><p>The title of this post is slightly misleading, since it&rsquo;s possible to retain some of your dotfiles and have them intermingle with home-manager by including them alongside nix. The idea of defining user configuration using nix can provide a clean way to maintain your configuration, and allow it to be portable across platforms. Is it worth the effort to migrate away from shell scripts and dotfiles? I&rsquo;d say so.</p></div><script type=text/javascript src=https://storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/widget/Widget_2.js></script><script type=text/javascript>kofiwidget2.init("Buy me a coffee","#458588","F1F2S4LWI"),kofiwidget2.draw()</script><section id=comments class=comments><div class='container sep-before'><div class=comments><script>var getTheme=window.localStorage&&window.localStorage.getItem("theme"),getTheme=getTheme??(window.matchMedia&&window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: light)").matches?"light":"dark"),getTheme=getTheme??"dark";let theme=getTheme==="dark"?"gruvbox-dark":"github-light",s=document.createElement("script");s.src="https://utteranc.es/client.js",s.setAttribute("repo","davegallant/davegallant.github.io"),s.setAttribute("issue-term","pathname"),s.setAttribute("theme",theme),s.setAttribute("crossorigin","anonymous"),s.setAttribute("async",""),document.querySelector("div.comments").innerHTML="",document.querySelector("div.comments").appendChild(s)</script></div></div></section></article></div><div class=sidebar></div></main><footer><div class=copyright>Dave Gallant</div></footer><script src=/js/main.4be06c129d6a89e60a661c6ac8c8e0434d58fb0fa2f685f85e2c306aca62adc5e77e7c63cb1c8a2cc5794ea42927281cf868514bcdce21ddf23dc3520e6743e7.js></script><script src=/js/flexsearch.1f92282f201926136fc931aab28494815d66c4f192c6a26626bcbb08ca96473993fd64d8e0da5db39a339acd74ef453e961cae0823b3a39b9559b3670e853c6b.js></script><script defer src=https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js data-cf-beacon='{"token": "b96799f53f9940dca6f660e6052ba009"}'></script></div></body></html>

blog/2021/10/11/replacing-docker-with-podman-on-macos-and-linux/index.html

@@ -55,4 +55,4 @@
 </span></span><span style=display:flex><span>0
 </span></span><span style=display:flex><span>podman start -a davegallant.github.io_hello_world_1
 </span></span><span style=display:flex><span>Hello world
-</span></span></code></pre></div><p>This should more or less provide the same results you would come to expect with docker. The README does clearly state that podman-compose is under development.</p><h3 id=summary>Summary<a href=#summary class=post-heading__anchor aria-hidden=true>#</a></h3><p>Installing Podman on macOS was not seamless, but it was manageable well within 30 minutes. I would recommend giving Podman a try to anyone who is unhappy with experiencing forced docker updates, or who is interested in using a more modern technology for running containers.</p><p>One caveat to mention is that there isn&rsquo;t an official graphical user interface for Podman, but there is an <a href=https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11494 class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>open issue</a> considering one. If you rely heavily on Docker Desktop&rsquo;s UI, you may not be as interested in using podman yet.</p><blockquote><p>Update: After further usage, bind mounts do not seem to work out of the box when the client and host are on different machines. A rather involved solution using <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>sshfs</a> was shared <a href=https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/8016#issuecomment-920015800 class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>here</a>.</p></blockquote><p>I had been experimenting with Podman on Linux before writing this, but after listening to this <a href=https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/164-podman/ class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>podcast episode</a>, I was inspired to give Podman a try on macOS.</p></div><script type=text/javascript src=https://storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/widget/Widget_2.js></script><script type=text/javascript>kofiwidget2.init("Buy me a coffee","#458588","F1F2S4LWI"),kofiwidget2.draw()</script><section id=comments class=comments><div class='container sep-before'><div class=comments><script>var getTheme=window.localStorage&&window.localStorage.getItem("theme"),getTheme=getTheme??(window.matchMedia&&window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: light)").matches?"light":"dark"),getTheme=getTheme??"dark";let theme=getTheme==="dark"?"gruvbox-dark":"github-light",s=document.createElement("script");s.src="https://utteranc.es/client.js",s.setAttribute("repo","davegallant/davegallant.github.io"),s.setAttribute("issue-term","pathname"),s.setAttribute("theme",theme),s.setAttribute("crossorigin","anonymous"),s.setAttribute("async",""),document.querySelector("div.comments").innerHTML="",document.querySelector("div.comments").appendChild(s)</script></div></div></section></article></div><div class=sidebar></div></main><footer><div class=copyright>Dave Gallant</div></footer><script src=/js/main.4be06c129d6a89e60a661c6ac8c8e0434d58fb0fa2f685f85e2c306aca62adc5e77e7c63cb1c8a2cc5794ea42927281cf868514bcdce21ddf23dc3520e6743e7.js></script><script src=/js/flexsearch.4fd7ac1adbaa0c340287cb25bb9b138edbdbba390fd9c227d67a5c6ae446390942a1f2e90dff66a996d66f934f3ec15fd4d7b5c34dfd126af631626967f5442e.js></script><script defer src=https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js data-cf-beacon='{"token": "b96799f53f9940dca6f660e6052ba009"}'></script></div></body></html>
+</span></span></code></pre></div><p>This should more or less provide the same results you would come to expect with docker. The README does clearly state that podman-compose is under development.</p><h3 id=summary>Summary<a href=#summary class=post-heading__anchor aria-hidden=true>#</a></h3><p>Installing Podman on macOS was not seamless, but it was manageable well within 30 minutes. I would recommend giving Podman a try to anyone who is unhappy with experiencing forced docker updates, or who is interested in using a more modern technology for running containers.</p><p>One caveat to mention is that there isn&rsquo;t an official graphical user interface for Podman, but there is an <a href=https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/11494 class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>open issue</a> considering one. If you rely heavily on Docker Desktop&rsquo;s UI, you may not be as interested in using podman yet.</p><blockquote><p>Update: After further usage, bind mounts do not seem to work out of the box when the client and host are on different machines. A rather involved solution using <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSHFS class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>sshfs</a> was shared <a href=https://github.com/containers/podman/issues/8016#issuecomment-920015800 class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>here</a>.</p></blockquote><p>I had been experimenting with Podman on Linux before writing this, but after listening to this <a href=https://kubernetespodcast.com/episode/164-podman/ class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>podcast episode</a>, I was inspired to give Podman a try on macOS.</p></div><script type=text/javascript src=https://storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/widget/Widget_2.js></script><script type=text/javascript>kofiwidget2.init("Buy me a coffee","#458588","F1F2S4LWI"),kofiwidget2.draw()</script><section id=comments class=comments><div class='container sep-before'><div class=comments><script>var getTheme=window.localStorage&&window.localStorage.getItem("theme"),getTheme=getTheme??(window.matchMedia&&window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: light)").matches?"light":"dark"),getTheme=getTheme??"dark";let theme=getTheme==="dark"?"gruvbox-dark":"github-light",s=document.createElement("script");s.src="https://utteranc.es/client.js",s.setAttribute("repo","davegallant/davegallant.github.io"),s.setAttribute("issue-term","pathname"),s.setAttribute("theme",theme),s.setAttribute("crossorigin","anonymous"),s.setAttribute("async",""),document.querySelector("div.comments").innerHTML="",document.querySelector("div.comments").appendChild(s)</script></div></div></section></article></div><div class=sidebar></div></main><footer><div class=copyright>Dave Gallant</div></footer><script src=/js/main.4be06c129d6a89e60a661c6ac8c8e0434d58fb0fa2f685f85e2c306aca62adc5e77e7c63cb1c8a2cc5794ea42927281cf868514bcdce21ddf23dc3520e6743e7.js></script><script src=/js/flexsearch.1f92282f201926136fc931aab28494815d66c4f192c6a26626bcbb08ca96473993fd64d8e0da5db39a339acd74ef453e961cae0823b3a39b9559b3670e853c6b.js></script><script defer src=https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js data-cf-beacon='{"token": "b96799f53f9940dca6f660e6052ba009"}'></script></div></body></html>

blog/2021/11/14/running-k3s-in-lxc-on-proxmox/index.html

@@ -56,4 +56,4 @@ As of 2021/11, it is still defaulting to the 1.19 channel, so I overrode it to 1
 </span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:#960050;background-color:#1e0010>
 </span></span></span><span style=display:flex><span><span style=color:#960050;background-color:#1e0010></span>NAME                                                           REFERENCE                             TARGETS   MINPODS   MAXPODS   REPLICAS   AGE
 </span></span><span style=display:flex><span>horizontalpodautoscaler.autoscaling/tekton-pipelines-webhook   Deployment/tekton-pipelines-webhook   9%/100%   1         5         1          12h
-</span></span></code></pre></div><p>I made sure to install Tailscale in the container so that I can easily access K3s from anywhere.</p><p>If I&rsquo;m feeling adventurous, I might experiment with <a href=https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/advanced/#running-k3s-with-rootless-mode-experimental class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>K3s rootless</a>.</p></div><script type=text/javascript src=https://storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/widget/Widget_2.js></script><script type=text/javascript>kofiwidget2.init("Buy me a coffee","#458588","F1F2S4LWI"),kofiwidget2.draw()</script><section id=comments class=comments><div class='container sep-before'><div class=comments><script>var getTheme=window.localStorage&&window.localStorage.getItem("theme"),getTheme=getTheme??(window.matchMedia&&window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: light)").matches?"light":"dark"),getTheme=getTheme??"dark";let theme=getTheme==="dark"?"gruvbox-dark":"github-light",s=document.createElement("script");s.src="https://utteranc.es/client.js",s.setAttribute("repo","davegallant/davegallant.github.io"),s.setAttribute("issue-term","pathname"),s.setAttribute("theme",theme),s.setAttribute("crossorigin","anonymous"),s.setAttribute("async",""),document.querySelector("div.comments").innerHTML="",document.querySelector("div.comments").appendChild(s)</script></div></div></section></article></div><div class=sidebar></div></main><footer><div class=copyright>Dave Gallant</div></footer><script src=/js/main.4be06c129d6a89e60a661c6ac8c8e0434d58fb0fa2f685f85e2c306aca62adc5e77e7c63cb1c8a2cc5794ea42927281cf868514bcdce21ddf23dc3520e6743e7.js></script><script src=/js/flexsearch.4fd7ac1adbaa0c340287cb25bb9b138edbdbba390fd9c227d67a5c6ae446390942a1f2e90dff66a996d66f934f3ec15fd4d7b5c34dfd126af631626967f5442e.js></script><script defer src=https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js data-cf-beacon='{"token": "b96799f53f9940dca6f660e6052ba009"}'></script></div></body></html>
+</span></span></code></pre></div><p>I made sure to install Tailscale in the container so that I can easily access K3s from anywhere.</p><p>If I&rsquo;m feeling adventurous, I might experiment with <a href=https://rancher.com/docs/k3s/latest/en/advanced/#running-k3s-with-rootless-mode-experimental class=link--external target=_blank rel=noreferrer>K3s rootless</a>.</p></div><script type=text/javascript src=https://storage.ko-fi.com/cdn/widget/Widget_2.js></script><script type=text/javascript>kofiwidget2.init("Buy me a coffee","#458588","F1F2S4LWI"),kofiwidget2.draw()</script><section id=comments class=comments><div class='container sep-before'><div class=comments><script>var getTheme=window.localStorage&&window.localStorage.getItem("theme"),getTheme=getTheme??(window.matchMedia&&window.matchMedia("(prefers-color-scheme: light)").matches?"light":"dark"),getTheme=getTheme??"dark";let theme=getTheme==="dark"?"gruvbox-dark":"github-light",s=document.createElement("script");s.src="https://utteranc.es/client.js",s.setAttribute("repo","davegallant/davegallant.github.io"),s.setAttribute("issue-term","pathname"),s.setAttribute("theme",theme),s.setAttribute("crossorigin","anonymous"),s.setAttribute("async",""),document.querySelector("div.comments").innerHTML="",document.querySelector("div.comments").appendChild(s)</script></div></div></section></article></div><div class=sidebar></div></main><footer><div class=copyright>Dave Gallant</div></footer><script src=/js/main.4be06c129d6a89e60a661c6ac8c8e0434d58fb0fa2f685f85e2c306aca62adc5e77e7c63cb1c8a2cc5794ea42927281cf868514bcdce21ddf23dc3520e6743e7.js></script><script src=/js/flexsearch.1f92282f201926136fc931aab28494815d66c4f192c6a26626bcbb08ca96473993fd64d8e0da5db39a339acd74ef453e961cae0823b3a39b9559b3670e853c6b.js></script><script defer src=https://static.cloudflareinsights.com/beacon.min.js data-cf-beacon='{"token": "b96799f53f9940dca6f660e6052ba009"}'></script></div></body></html>