Oct 12

How to add a command to $PATH for Mac zsh

Tired of getting command not found? Here’s a quick guide Navigate to the bin folder for your CLI application in your command line. Then run pwd to “print working directory.” pwd output: /Users/yourcomputer/Documents/google-cloud-sdk/bin append the directory to the $PATH using the following command path+=('/Users/yourcomputer/Documents/google-cloud-sdk/bin') export the new path export PATH

Command Line

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Command Line

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How to add a command to $PATH for Mac zsh

Tired of getting command not found? Here’s a quick guide

Navigate to the bin folder for your CLI application in your command line. Then run pwd to “print working directory.”

pwdoutput: /Users/yourcomputer/Documents/google-cloud-sdk/bin

append the directory to the $PATH using the following command

path+=('/Users/yourcomputer/Documents/google-cloud-sdk/bin')

export the new path

export PATH

Aug 25

DNS Terms

Address Record (A Record): A domain name that maps to an IPv4 address. CName (Canonical Name): Root domain. The subdomain of maps.google.com, will have a CNAME value of google.com. Therefore, when a DNS hits maps.google.com, it will trigger another DNS lookup for google.com. Let’s Encrypt: A free certificate authority that…

Software Development

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Software Development

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Aug 19

AWS Key Terms

How is AWS structured: AWS has servers throughout the world. These servers are categorized into regions, VPC’s, and availability zones. Region: Collection of availability zones Virtual Private Cloud (VPC): Specific space within a region that spans across all availability zones within a region. Availability Zone: A data center within a…

AWS

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AWS

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Published in Don’t Leave Me Out in the Code

·Jul 29

Deploy an App with Docker

Here is a quick guide to deploying an app to Docker. To get started, create a simple Node (React, Vue, etc) application and download Docker Desktop (https://www.docker.com/products/docker-desktop/) Docker: Container management software Image: Instructions to build a container. Each image has multiple layers (Ubuntu, filesystem, dependencies). Container: A container runs an…

Docker

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Docker

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Apr 27

Getting Started with AWS

IAM (Identity and Access Management): The root account has all privileges. It is difficult to restrict privileges for the root user so AWS recommends accessing the console using IAM user accounts. Policies: Defines permissions and can be applied to users, groups, and roles User: A person Group: A collection of…

AWS

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AWS

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Published in Don’t Leave Me Out in the Code

·Apr 13

Getting Started with Docker

Goal: Docker isolates an application and its dependencies into a self-contained unit that can run anywhere. Remove the need for physical hardware, allowing for more efficient use of computing resources, both in terms of energy consumption and cost effectiveness. A virtual machine is an emulation of a real computer…

Docker

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Docker

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Published in Don’t Leave Me Out in the Code

·Apr 6

AWS CloudFront Basics

When a user request an image at http://mywebsite.com/myimage.png, this request is routed through a complex network to reach the original server which causes latency. To bypass this latency, you can use AWS CloudFront. CloudFront is AWS’ Content Delivery Network (CDN) service. It caches data and acts as an intermediary between…

AWS

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AWS

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Published in Don’t Leave Me Out in the Code

·Mar 28

My AWS Account Got Hacked. How to Remove the Lightsail Instances?

Over the weekend my AWS account got hacked. The hacker created 2,000 lightsail instances. AWS suspended my account after an hour when it recognized the suspicious activity. However, after my account was reinstated was where I ran into the biggest problems. AWS claims they do not have the authority to…

AWS

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My AWS Account Got Hacked. How to Remove the Lightsail Instances?

AWS

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·Dec 31, 2021

What is .bashrc?

.bashrc is a script that runs whenever a Bash shell is started. You can put any commands in this script. This .bashrc file is found in your home directory. So let’s start. Create .bashrc file in home directory. ~ is a shortcut for the home directory. touch ~/.bashrc open your .barshrc file using nano nano ~/.bashrc Write a command. In the command below, we add the bin folder to the end of the existing $PATH variable.

Mac

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Mac

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What is .bashrc?

.bashrc is a script that runs whenever a Bash shell is started. You can put any commands in this script. This .bashrc file is found in your home directory. So let’s start.

Create .bashrc file in home directory. ~ is a shortcut for the home directory.

touch ~/.bashrc

open your .barshrc file using nano

nano ~/.bashrc

Write a command. In the command below, we add the bin folder to the end of the existing $PATH variable.

PATH=$PATH:~/opt/bin

Save and Exit nano: control + x => y (yes) => enter

Dec 4, 2021

Introduction to DevOps

Whenever I hear DevOps, I think about deployments. Many people have different definitions and interpretations of DevOps. In my opinion, DevOps is simply a paradigm to improve the development lifecycle. In a technical sense, DevOps is the marriage between Developers and Operations. …

Dev Ops

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