Overview

While revising for some Kubernetes exams, I realised I havent done a blog post on some useful commands.

The first blog post covers the heredoc command.

Heredoc (Here Document) is a way to pass multiple lines of input to a command. It allows you to redirect input from a string literal within your script, …

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Introduction

A short blog post to outline how to access the site identifier associated with a Firebase project.

Access Site Identifier

1. Accessing a list of sites

   To access a list of sites you can use the following command

   1firebase hosting:sites:list
   

2. The above command also supports exporting the list as json

   1 …

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Introduction

The Hosting a static website blog post walks through the essentials of running a website from a Google Cloud Storage bucket.

In general just remember that the bucket name needs to be globally unique.

ProTip: prefix the bucket name with the Google project identifier e.g. myawesomeproject-bucket

In this …

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The following blog post illustrates how to use worktree in a git workflow.

A Git worktree allows you to check out multiple branches or commits at the same time. Each worktree is a separate working directory linked to the same repository. This is useful for working on multiple features concurrently, reviewing pull …

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How to clean up a Nix environment on (Debian Bookworm).

In the blog post Getting started with Nix Package Manager we covered how to install Nix. A quick follow up on that post to discuss how to clean up the environment.

The more you use Nix, the more relevant this post will be. So I separated out the details for the …

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Google Cloud Professional Cloud Datbase Engineer Certification (Mar 2024)

Disclaimer: Non official content, errors and omissions excepted

Pre Exam Notes

• Kryterion Sentinel software (Windows/Mac) installation requires administrator rights
• Kyterion system check - do this at least a day before to be on the safe side …

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Google Cloud Professional Cloud Workspace Administrator Certification (Mar 2024)

Disclaimer: Non official content, errors and omissions excepted

Pre Exam Notes

• Kryterion Sentinel software (Windows/Mac) installation requires administrator rights
• Kyterion system check - do this at least a day before to be on the safe …

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How to use Nix on (Debian Bookworm).

What is Nix Package Manager?

"Nix builds packages in isolation from each other. This ensures that they are reproducible and don’t have undeclared dependencies, so if a package works on one machine, it will also work on another."

It may surprise you but Nix also has over …

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A quick aide memoir on how to import data from a CSV formatted files into Firestore. If you have used the Pet Theory lab, this should be familar, but if not here is the code.

The general idea is to create a csv and import it directly into Cloud Firestore. To do this, the code will read the csv, then connect to …

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A quick guide on generating test data. If you have used the Pet Theory lab, this should be familar, but if not here is the code.

The general idea is to create a csv based on made up dataset. To do this, use the Fakerjs package and write the output as csv records.

If you have not worked with Fakerjs before, this is a …

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