Somebody has to write some code, so others can use it. This section covers tools and technologies helpful for your development workflow. IDEs, frameworks, programming languages and scripting will be gathered here.
Linux
You may have heard of Flatpaks, maybe even Flathub? The Flatpak community tries to provide a general package format and marketplace / app store for GNU/Linux packages. Since I am using Flatpak for quite some time now, I wanted to share some experience and details about it.
Spotlight
Cirrus CLI is a tool for running containerized tasks reproducibly in any environment. Most commonly, Cirrus tasks are used as part of continuous integration workflows but can also be used as part of local development process as a hermetic replacement of helper scripts/Makefiles.
Podman
You want to use Podman, but you are on a Mac? Podman Machine may be something you are interested in. It is the built-in way to run Podman in a virtual machine on your Workstation.
Ansible
You have done your automation in Ansible? Cool! But do you test, if the deployment really works? Do you check if your server is really listening to the correct port and delivers the correct content? This guide will dig into functional testing with Ansible...
Fedora
Before digging into Kubernetes, you will need a minimal Kubernetes Setup. Such a setup should spin up fast, should work like a real cluster, and hopefully integrate well in other tools. For me, Minikube fulfills these needs, and you can run it on Fedora, too.
Podman
Running your own Git server for your project, private work or your company is very common. With Podman and Gitea, you can get things going in minutes. In this guide, I will demonstrate how you can set up your own Gitea instance on Podman, including auto-start and auto-updates.
Development
Some time ago, I published the article "Git - Getting Started" to get you started with Git and Source Code Management. Now, let's have a look how to enhance your workflow with branching, rebasing, squashing and merging.
Ansible
Ansible can be used to configure and orchestrate a bunch of machines. As explained in a previous article, it is quite easy to write and maintain a simple inventory. Now let's add some variables to it, so we can maintain our infrastructure settings in a central place.
Ansible
Ansible is a quite simple and powerful automation tool. You can configure servers, switches, firewalls, cloud providers and much more. One essential thing needs to be considered, if you start using Ansible: "How to tell Ansible everything it needs to know about the infrastructure?"
Podman
Podman is an awesome tool to build, manage and share container workloads. Sometimes you also need to store a password for your container or manage secret tokens. With Podman 3.1.0 a feature was released that helps to manage container secrets with Podman.
Vagrant
Vagrant provides an easy and powerful way to deploy local machines for development and testing. You can use Ansible or Podman and Docker to provision complete use cases on the machines, too.
Vagrant
Vagrant is a powerful tool, that can help to create and manage VMs on different operating systems. Very often you will need to add more software to these VMs or test your new web project. This can be achieved with provisioners. In this article, I will tackle file and shell provisioners.
while-true-do.io
If you are developing web applications, you may be used to web frontend/styling frameworks like Bootstrap or Foundation. What started as a "not made by me" project slowly became a tool I am using for prototyping and styling web applications.
Development
If you just started with development, you may have never heard of Git or Source Code Management at all. This article will provide an overview why you should get in touch with Git and how to use it for your projects.
Vagrant
Vagrant by Hashi Corp enables users to create and configure lightweight, reproducible, and portable development environments. It is basically Virtualization configuration in a single file. This guide will enable you to install and use Vagrant for simple tasks.
Community
Contributing to #OpenSource #software is one thing everybody can do. If you wanted to contribute to some OpenSource project, but never started, this #blog may be for you. It is about my #contributions in various forms and why I think: "Everybody can contribute" and support the OpenSource #community.