This is my personal blog, in an early stage. Mainly, it’s an experiment with Hugo. Please imagine an animated construction worker gif here.
Kubernetes Secret values are Base-64 encoded. Looking up a secret value using kubectl
is somewhat uncomfortable, because you always need to copy/base64-decode the result.
This small shell script automates this step, and gives you the plain values (in json) straight away.
[Read More]Whenever I needed a quick self-signed TLS certificate, it took me ages
to get the command line parameters to openssl right.
This code snippet creates a key and certificate for localhost that
is valid for approx. 1 year in PEM format. It also and creates a PKCS 12
store and a Java Keystore containing the same certificate and private key
for easier re-use in applications requiring these formats.
If you use your computer in multiple contexts (private, work, multiple client projects), you might
run need to use different identities for these contexts. For git this usually
boils down to
This can be a pain to work with – after trying multiple solutions I found on the web (or puzzle pieces thereof), I created a combination that works completely automatic once it’s set up, and that I think might be worth sharing.
[Read More]Uhm… “Hello world”, I guess?