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→ Latest Arch images install cleanly in UTM ∞

As part of a recent job change, I also acquired a M1 MBP, which honestly is the best one I’ve had in the last 20 years. However I’m also a big fan of Linux and tiling window managers, so I was looking to have an Arch wm on the machine and be able to use i3 and get the best of both worlds. Initially when I tried aarch64 didn’t install cleanly from an ISO, and the arch image UTM provides in their gallery is problematic. Read More...

2022-04-03 − 🏷 linux 🏷 apple

Simply deploying to private GKE cluster from Cloud Build

I recently came back to Google’s Cloud Platform after some years on other cloud platforms, and as part of my work there I had the requirement to setup a secure GCP cluster for some workloads. Google engineers have provided a nice blueprint for this using a IAP Proxy Bastion host for external access, which works well for safe access from developer machines and allows you to limit Identity Aware Proxy access by GCP Security Groups. Read More...

2022-03-31 − 🏷 devops

→ Enabling touchid for sudo ∞

Somehow I missed that this is supported, but it’s awesome! Also works with Apple Watch unlock in case your mac/keyboard doesn’t have a touchid sensor :)

2022-03-27 − 🏷