Development on Mike Bell - Blog & Stuff

Upgrade to Gatsby and AWS

hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell) — Sun, 07 Jun 2020 00:00:00 +0000

It’s been over a year since I last blogged, there are a number of reasons:

Broken realease pipeline (well not quite but it was messy)
I wanted to move everything to docker
I hated the way the blog looked

A few weeks ago I started to the move to GatsbyJS after a few false starts I finally got there. Once I had everything migrated including updating all the frontmatter (this took ages), I was ready to deploy it. I have multiple server on DigitalOcean all capable of hosting a static blog but decided that I wanted to offload everything to AWS to learn more about the tools available.

The CD pipeline
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Since mine was in a bit a state (Vault doesn’t auto unseal), I wanted to play around with other tools outside of Concourse.

Firstly I started with AWS Codebuild, it’s a bit odd when you’re used to Concourse but there’s enough documentation out there to figure it all out. One of the blockers I found was that when running npm build it wouldn’t pick up some of the folders. I never did get round to figuring out what the issue was with it so decided to abandon that and try Github Actions.

With Github Actions it was dead easy to setup and the integrated secrets management was very nice, I really like what they’ve done with it and I’ll be interested in exploring more of what’s on offer there.

So at the moment the blog automatically builds on every push to the repository. This is the flow:

Push > Github Actions Build > Publish to S3 > Invalidate Cloudfront

I really like this workflow as it’s about as hands off as possible, this means I can just blog!

If your interested in the build file it can be found here.

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Windows 10 isn't that bad to develop with

hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell) — Wed, 13 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

After upgrading to Windows 10 finally I figured I’d check out what it’s like developing on Windows 10 and to be honest it isn’t that bad.

Windows Subsystem Linux
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I installed the Ubuntu image and switch shell to ZSH. After importing all my dotfiles and setup from my Linux machine this works really well. A quick symlink form ~/Projects to /mnt/c/Users/digital/Projects makes it really easy to open it up and then start working on a project. Even though I have git installed I still use it in the Ubuntu image, oh-my-zsh autocompletions are hard wired in my brain now and very hard to give up.

Docker CE for Windows
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This installed and worked fine straight off the bat. I run Powershell to interact with docker and docker compose. I’ve seen a few StackOverflow posts about running this directly inside Ubuntu WSL but haven’t gotten around to setting that up. Will be interesting to see how things work as I start introducing more complex network structures.

Visual Studio Code
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I really like this editor, it seems quite light and has a load of really good plugins that support my ever shifting development needs.

So there it is developing in Windows 10 isn’t actually so bad after all.

(You’ll still have to prise my KDE Plasma out of my cold dead hands though.)

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Vagrant Boxes for Drupal Development

hello@mikebell.io (Mike Bell) — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 00:00:00 +0000

During my time off I figured I’d get my dev environment setup for when I start at CTI.

Using the really great puphpet.com I’ve created two new vagrant configs, the first is for Apache the second is for Nginx.

The Changes
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Removed xhprof and dot file support
Added an easier way to provision new vhosts and dbs.
Added drush

Internals
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Ubuntu 12.04
PHP 5.3

Usage
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git clone git@github.com:digital006/drupaldev-nginx.git
mkdir sites
vagrant up

Links
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https://github.com/digital006/drupaldev-nginx

https://github.com/digital006/drupaldev

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Development on Mike Bell - Blog & Stuff

Upgrade to Gatsby and AWS

The CD pipeline #

Windows 10 isn't that bad to develop with

Windows Subsystem Linux #

Docker CE for Windows #

Visual Studio Code #

Vagrant Boxes for Drupal Development

The Changes #

Internals #

Usage #

Links #

The CD pipeline
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Windows Subsystem Linux
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Docker CE for Windows
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Visual Studio Code
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The Changes
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Internals
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Usage
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Links
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