Some weeks ago, I gave a workshop about Ansible and I was asked how to set up a local test environment for Ansible. Requirement is that this test environment can run on a Windows 10 without a Linux subsystem. I don’t why, but it was not my first customer where Windows 10 could not be used with Linux subsystem (Don’t ...
Read More »How to Install Red Hat Process Automation Manager 7.5 in Minutes
While you’ve seen the many developer tooling articles where I’ve helped you to get started on the OpenShift Container Platform, there is still a basic need to run our tooling locally on our own machine. With that in mind, here’s an update that installs the latest process automation tooling for your development projects in just minutes on your very own ...
Read More »Code Ready Containers – Process Automation developer tools update
For some time now we’ve been working on updating your experience using Code Ready Containers, a container platform installation for your local machine, by providing interesting developer tooling and project examples. There is no better way to learn about container technologies, container platforms, and container-based application development than getting hands-on with great open technologies. This example is the latest version ...
Read More »Code Ready Containers – Decision Management developer tools update
For some time now we’ve been working on updating your experience using Code Ready Containers, a container platform installation for your local machine, by providing interesting developer tooling and project examples. There is no better way to learn about container technologies, container platforms, and container-based application development than getting hands-on with great open technologies. The first example here is the ...
Read More »macOS: essential tools for (Java) developer
Are you considering macOS as your next operating system? Are switching from Windows or Linux to macOS? Do you want to develop in Java on macOS? Or maybe you are looking for tools to help you being more productive? Read about tools that are essential to me (after switching from Windows to macOS). Development Homebrew iTerm2 SDKMAN! Git Docker IntelliJ ...
Read More »How to create a CentOS 7 virtual machine in VMware Workstation 15
How to create a CentOS 7 virtual machine in VMware Workstation 15 You want to set up CentOS 7.7 in VMware Workstations 15 Player with the following configurations: two SCSI hard disks, each with 100 GB of storagetwo virtual CPUs You will need the following bill of materials: Host operating system with sufficient memory and hard disk capacityCentOS 7.7 imageWMware ...
Read More »How to setup OpenShift Container Platform on your local machine in minutes
It’s been awhile since I’ve talked about running OpenShift Container Platform on your local machine. This mean a container platform at your finger tips, one you can experience the joys of cloud native development and automated rolling deployments. Since I started pulling together ways to easily experience this with OpenShift Container Platform, back with version 3.3 believe it or not, ...
Read More »macOS: Preview source code files in Finder with Quick Look plugins
macOS Finder offers a possibility to preview the files of any type without opening them with Quick Look. By default Quick Look supports most commonly used file formats which may not be enough if you are a developer and you want to preview source code files i.e. Java or Python or any other un-common file types. Quick Look plugins Quick ...
Read More »Synchronising two external hard drives with rsync on a mac
This is more of a reminder for myself so I don’t need to keep googling or looking at man when I need to look up the syntax. Let’s assume you have two hard drives, ones called PHOTOS the other other PHOTOS_BACKUP. You can use the following command to sychronise photos (including removing all files that were deleted on PHOTOS to ...
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