/blog/ Recent content in Blog on Ja Software Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Sat, 15 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/slow_response/ Sat, 15 May 2021 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/slow_response/ I have received like many today people a dodgy SMS message to a phishing website. One pretending to be from Royal Mail another from HSBC Bank. I think with training many are now beginning to spot them. However I am sure many are still been fooled by them. So I try to an active role in reporting them to the company that hosts the website. The last one was https://www.namecheap.com. It was using hs-onlinepayeebanking-support. /blog/kubernetes_dashboard/ Sat, 25 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/kubernetes_dashboard/ Installing the Dashboard gives you a useful window especially if you are new and trying to work out what is happening. First think check out what is the latest version of the Dashboard. I have selected v2.0.1. Kubernetes has a very fast release schedule. Don’t be the first, but don’t delay either. Just update the version embeded in the command below. Go here for the latest releases https://github.com/kubernetes/dashboard/releases kubectl apply -f https://raw. /blog/install_ssh/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/install_ssh/ When you first install Ubuntu Client it doesn’t allow you to login remotely at first. This is likely a good step in security. So how do you set it up. The problem is we do it often enough to forget all the steps. So here is a simple 2 minute read and install blog. First step is to run update. Always a good idea before updating. It will update its list of what is available to update. /blog/baremetal/ Thu, 09 Jul 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/baremetal/ Install Kubernetes on Bare Metal Kubernetes is very popular. But perhaps you want to try it out locally on a server rather than an instance on your machine. Can you do it? Well yes, but it does take some configuring and know how. Kubernetes is designed to run by large organisations with experience and sometimes expensive equipment. So here are some instructions to convert an old server (or new) into a decent little kubernetes cluster. /blog/requirements/ Fri, 26 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/requirements/ Requirements.txt You started to learn Python. Thought it was a little strange to begin with, but then grown to love its power and its elegance. Then you discovered how good Python libaries are and so easy to get with the pip command. But how do you deploy these to others? Again there is an easy solution. So you need to understand requirements.txt. You very likely would have heard of it or seen the requirements. /blog/beatsforarm/ Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/beatsforarm/ I have a small raspberry PI that runs my workshop heating. It would be nice for it to push its log onto Elastic Search. With Raspberry Pi’s doing things like IOT and perhaps small duties such as Remote Display Boards the need for logging is important. Especially if you have a few that you want to monitor to see if anyone is trying to muck around with them. Anyhow I downloaded filebeat installed it and it failed. /blog/why_hugo/ Thu, 11 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000 /blog/why_hugo/ When you develop web applications for a living it can be tempting to write your website for your company from scratch. However whilst you may be an expert at writing great web applications, it is a different skill writing a web site. Especially to get to a level that it looks good, rather than functional which is the aim of applications. Perhaps this is not so bad if you are a website developer, but I have noticed that whilst I can write web applications that are easy to use and look greate.