Aim: Use MSYS2 to install the development packages Ruby needs to build native extensions on Windows. Why? because I found out that some Ruby gems must be build as native extensions. Without this s...

To play around with some tools I like, I need to learn React, welp! George Offley recommended this free beginner course for react because it combines theory and practice well: lots of projects to ...

Aim: Use HashiCorp’s Packer and WinRM to automatically create a directory as an example. When that works, we’re ready for [[Packer - setup local dev environment on Windows using Packer]] Prerequis...

Send an event to the default EventBus I’m assuming that permissions are properly setup. The hardest part was getting the correct Json structure. The Detail object contains a mixture of Json (...

Aim: able to run docker commands without Administrator privileges. Preparation for running docker commands in GitHub Actions that’s running on Self-hosted runners. See [[GitHub Actions - Self...

WinRM is to Windows what SSH is to Linux. Aim: setup and test winrmon Windows 10 dev laptop. Why? I’d like to automate setting up my development tools with Packer. See TIL, Packer - setup local d...

Aim: automate setting up my local dev environment on Windows using HashiCorp’s Packer My laptop frequently breaks down. After having it repaired, I have to reinstall most programs I need for devel...

Some of the pipelines I work on deploy workloads in AWS using AWS CodePipeline. In another CI/CD tool, I’d like to use the aws cli to trigger a CodePipeline and periodically check if it succeeded o...

Aim: able to run docker build in a GitHub Action that’s running on Self-hosted runners. When running docker build as part of a step in a GitHub action, we’re greeted with the error error durin...

This came up when I wanted to run a powershell script with elevated Administrator privileges , sometimes on my dev laptop and sometimes in a CI/CD process. Running a script as an Administrator lik...