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Using GitHub Copilot Background Agents

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Recently, I had the opportunity to try out GitHub Copilot Coding Agents (Background Agents) on one of my personal projects: the terraform-aws-backup m…

Anbernic 35xxH and Batocera

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Today, the market is flooded with a variety of handheld devices for retro emulation, originating from several Chinese companies such as Retroid, Powki…

OctoPrint with multiple 3D printers

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One of the most useful tools when managing a 3D printer is OctoPrint, since among several things it allows you to manage your printer from a web inter…

PaperLike Pencil Grips

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I’ve been using my iPad for a while to take notes with the Apple Pencil and I decided to write this article to tell you about a product that has pleas…

iPad Pro as portable workstation

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It’s been a while since I posted on the blog, first because I couldn’t find something interesting to share and second because there wasn’t much spare …

Helm 3 local repo

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In Helm 3 the support of helm serve command was removed due to some design issues, therefore if you need a similar tool you have to install helm serv…

Terraform module for AWS ECR

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I share here another Terraform module I published as open source code, which allows you to create registries in AWS ECR.

Terraform module for Secrets Manager

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I just published a Terraform module called terraform-aws-secrets-manager at Github, so I decided to share it as well in the public Terraform Registry.

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

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HashiCorp recently announced the general availability of some of their Cloud Certifications like Terraform and Vault (and others to come like Consul).

Terraform module for Amazon CodeBuild

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I just published a Terraform module called terraform-aws-codebuild at Github, so I decided to share it as well in the public Terraform Registry.

Terraform module for AWS Backup

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I just published my first open-sourced Terraform module called terraform-aws-backup at Github, so I decided to share it as well in the public Terrafor…

Dynamic blocks in Terraform 0.12.x

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Some time ago I wrote about how to make dynamic blocks in Terraform 0.11.x, that although it solved the problem, it generated others because it wasn’t…

Guru of the week

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Last week I answered this Guru of the Week question and I won!. Some questions can be tricky, but the key is to think what service or technology solve…

Pyenv to the rescue

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I recently switched to Debian testing again so as to be able to use Python 3.6 among other things.

AWS CodePipeline with Bitbucket

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At work I needed to deploy an application using AWS CodePipeline but the repository where the code is located is in Bitbucket.

Dynamic configuration blocks in Terraform

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One of the things I had to resolve was the fact that in Terraform there are configuration blocks that, depending on the options may have different par…

Getting AWS Logs from the CLI

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One of the company’s developers asked me if there was any way to view the Lambda function logs from the command line, so I wouldn’t have to go into th…

echo dot

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Since I’m working on some projects in the company with Alexa, I got a echo dot.

A Cloud Guru Member

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I received my swag: t-shirt and sticker pack from A Cloud Guru this week. How I got these items? I became a member and now I have access to all course…

How to get the latest Ubuntu AMI

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Recently I needed to get the latest AMI for Ubuntu Trusty 14.04 Ubuntu with ENA support enabled to build an image using Packer so I did a research and…

Working with Terraform modules

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In this post you’ll see how reuse your Terraform code using modules to avoid writing the same code over and over.

How to load the VirtualBox driver

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If for any reason (for instance Genymotion complaining about not finding VirtualBox) and you need to reload the VirtualBox driver keep in mind that th…

How to update Linux time zones

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On May 1st, Venezuela will change its time zone to UTC-4, therefore in Linux you must update your tzdata package to be ready to this change.

Installing Java on Debian

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If you need to install Oracle Java on Debian, you can follow the next steps once the binary file had been downloaded from <a href=”http://www.oracle.

How to move a physical volume on LVM

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If you need to move data from one disk to another one you could think in copying the data with cp, rsync, or any other tool, and then umount the parti…

LPIC-2 certification

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At last my certificate and card ID for LPIC-2 have arrived, which involve exams 201 and 202.  Unlike the <a href=”http://lgallardo.

Gitlab full Postgresql backup and restore

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GitLab can be used with Postgresql as its database engine  (beside MySQL),  and all come ready to make backups and restores of its databases and git r…

qBittorrent Controller for Android

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If you are interested in this application you can install it from Google Play or download qBittorrent Controller apk on your device.

Installing Raspbmc successfully

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A friend recommended me this distro for running XBMC which was released by one of the developers of the XBMC project with specific optimizations to ru…

How to create a ramdisk in Linux

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A ramdisk is like a disk partition but running directly from the systems RAM. All data read and written will be faster, and as drawback all data will …

Novell certification

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Talking with a friend of mine I told him that LPI certifications validates a couple of Novell0s certifications which in deed are just an incentive to …

How to build a Debian packge in 3 steps

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There are several ways of making a Debian package. In this article you will learn how to create it using equivs tools, to create a simple package (f…

Where to put my Raspberry Pi?

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Due to I wanted to use my Raspberry Pi as a media center but I didn’t want to put a lot of devices on my nightstand I came up with this idea.

XBMC on Raspberry Pi with Raspbian

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If you want to install XBMC on your Raspberry Pi using  Raspbian and got dependency problems, you can download it from this repo by adding the followi…

Mobile repository on Debian

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If by chances you have a slow connection but in another place have a better connection (school, university, work, etc.

Kernel compiling the old-fashion way

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There are several reasons for compiling a kernel. For instance you might be interested in adding support for a new hardware or functionality, or for t…

Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions

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After installing your virtual machine in VirtualBox you should install the _Guest Additions_what is that for? It lets you use your virtual machine at …

Why not to use Windows?

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I’ve installed my sisters computer at least four times with Windows XP because it got virusesI hope this time she considers to use Linux (they have it…

apt vs aptitude

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Both, apt (apt-get, apt-cache) and aptitude are commands for package administration from the text on Debian and spin-off distros like Ubuntu.