Update kernel in chroot with mhwd-kernel

What? One of my systems (running Manjaro) had an update. This process updated the kernel to linux510. It happens to be that this kernel, with my laptop (Asus Ideapad), produces the flip_done timed-out error: [drm:drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_flip_done [drm_kms_helper]] *ERROR* [CRTC:62:crtc-0] flip_done timed out The problem Ok, the problem is: the kernel won´t load at all! So, your... Continue Reading →

Roblox on Arch?

Yeah, sure... You can use Wine to accomplish this... Install Wine and Cia For Wine, from the command line using yay (you can use pacman or whatever) yay wine Then look for multilib/wine and select it. Also you will need some 32bit libs: yay lib32-gnutls Look for multilib/lib32-gnutls and select it. Roblox Go to the... Continue Reading →

Reset GNU/Linux root password

Ok, I came up with this situation: a small laptop (from an elementary school program) that can't be updated due to the root password being lost. How to reset the password in order to update the OS? There are, at least, two methods: liveCD (USB boot or whatever you want to call it)modify GRUB startup... Continue Reading →

Teleport Workshop

Based on these sites: https://www.the-digital-life.com/ssh-teleport/https://goteleport.com/docs/ And, obviously, StackOverflow! What is Teleport?: https://github.com/gravitational/teleport Dictionary Since this workshop runs using docker we have: The host, the system in which docker runs (i.e. the system to which the port mappings from docker will be sent). The Teleport Server, one of the running containers. The Teleport Nodes, the other... Continue Reading →

Someone changed your terraform!

What? So, someone deployed to production using a terraform file set. Then someone modified something there and after a long time, it's your turn to fix some stuff. Specifically what? Ok, for this example, at first moment you had a Google Service activated in the main file of this terraform structure: . ├── env │  ... Continue Reading →

Gitflow with Github and Cloud Build

What? I want to implement Gitflow using Github and Cloud Build. Why? When developing software in a team, it's a good idea to set some sort of standard process. This keeps things clear, ordered and helps the team to avoid procedural mistakes. Also, if a new dev/devops/lead (or whatever) is added to the team, to... Continue Reading →

The subtle path

Or: why Devops should be good at story-telling? Someone told me that Devops' work is invisible (even ungrateful for the Devops practitioner). I prefer to think of it as subtle. Which implies, we Devops, must be good story tellers, so we can spread the word. (and show stakeholders the importance of our work) About the... Continue Reading →

To mesh or not to mesh

Service Mesh I was told that a Service Mesh such as Linkerd, Consul or Istio, adds a lot of overload in my cluster. Keeping this in mind, a Service Mesh is not suitable to a small deployment. Instead, you should consider a Service Mesh when you client is big enough to deserve it. But, how... Continue Reading →

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