Recently while playing with some development tools, I was surprised to see Minikube now runs on ChromeOS.
Minikube allows for a scaled down Kubernetes cluster running directly on your host machine. Kubernetes is a container orchestrator. Put simply it enables the "simplified" running of containers.
In this …

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Cloud Shell is super useful and features a lot of tools. However out of the box the general setup doesnt match my local machine. If you want to use tmux or vim in your environment, this blog post is for you.
The following is a quick summary of changes made to update Cloud Shell to be a bit more like my own machine. …

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Fish is described as a smart and user-friendly command shell. As you would expect it works on Linux and is super useful to get that optimized experience. The blog post covers installation on GCP Cloud Shell I would expect the installation process to be similar on any Linux based machine.

If you want to use oh-my-bash, …

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An Nginx reverse proxy enables client requests to be forwarded on to a backend server. In this scenario the backend server provides responses to the client. A setup like this can be useful in a number of situations where Nginx is used to control the processing. It is also a nice security setup as the Nginx acts as a …

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If you work at the command line with Git this ones for you! Most of my time is spent at the Linux command line. My tool of choice is always "oh-my-bash" as it just works across all my machines. However if you are using a Cloud Provider environment, you probably dont want to spend time setting up another …

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