Using WSL with OpenShift Local

You can install OpenShift Local (crc) on your Windows workstation but OpenShift Local runs as localhost. If you want to use Linux for instance to build images with docker or podman you can use the Windows Subsystem for Linux. Unfortunately WSL can not directly access OpenShift Local because it binds to localhost. To solve that I have installed nginx on Windows and configured it as a reverse proxy.

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Line breaks in Visual STudio Code and Git (LF vs CRLF)

Background
In Windows a line break ends with the characters <CR><LF> and in Linux a line break is only a <LF>.
So usually line breaks in text files in Windows should be ending with <CR><LF> and in Linux they should end with <LF>. In mixed environments (Windows/Linux) this is something one has to take into account.

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VMware Home Lab

It is nice too have your own home lab with VMware ESXi to play around. In this post I am describing how my home lab looks like using nested ESXi.

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WordPress Unable to create directory

When you get the error ” Unable to create directory wp-content/uploads/2021/12 ” when you are uploading media in WordPress something is wrong with the folder permissions. Another well known error is “The uploaded file could not be moved to wp-content/uploads/2021/12.”

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Airquality with Raspberry Pi

I have been experimenting with the Raspberry Pi and the Bosch BME680 and Plantower PMS5003. With the BME680 you can measure temperature, air pressure, humidity, and VOC gas (Volatile Organic Compunds). With the PMS5003 particles can be measured. Also used a Telegraf agent, Influxdb2 and Grafana.

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Installing a Kubernetes cluster the hard way

Installed a first Kubernetes cluster consisting of 1 master node and 1 worker node on CentOS 7. Kubernetes has version 1.6.2.

Kubernetes is not working with CentOS 8 yet so I have used the latest CentOS 7. Everything is installed on Oracle VM VirtualBox on a Windows 10 host.

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