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Exploring the new GitHub Actions continuous delivery functionality

December 21, 2020December 21, 2020 nillsf Leave a comment

At GitHub Universe in early December 2020, some new functionalities for GitHub Actions focused on continuous delivery were introduced. In this blog post, we’ll explore them in the context of a simple web-app deployment to a Kubernetes cluster. Before diving into what’s new, let’s have a look at what GitHub Actions are: What are GitHub […]

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How to connect GitHub Codespaces to a local Visual Studio Code

October 31, 2020October 31, 2020 nillsf Leave a comment

I’m a huge fan of GitHub Codespaces. Codespaces deliver a fully powered and customizable Visual Studio Code (VS Code) instance in the browser. I’ve started using Codespaces recently to do my Covid analysis. It’s a great tool because I don’t need to install anything locally, I can simply use Codespaces straight from the browser. Codespaces […]

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First look at GitHub Codespaces

October 19, 2020October 19, 2020 nillsf Leave a comment

GitHub Codespaces is a way to get a fully powered Visual Studio Code experience in the browser. It’s your cloud-enabled development machine, without needing anything but a web browser. It’s currently in beta and I got access a couple weeks ago. Today, I wanted to give it a spin. Rather than provide a simple demo, […]

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How to use ‘terraform output’ in a GitHub action

August 25, 2020August 25, 2020 nillsf Leave a comment

Recently, I was building a GitHub Actions pipeline, and needed to access output from Terraform. There’s a very convenient feature in Terraform that allows you to get output from your applied .tf files. You can call those values from the shell directly, and assign them to variables in your shell. What you need to do […]

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How to sync a GitHub fork

May 22, 2020May 22, 2020 nillsf Leave a comment

I recently needed to sync a GitHub repo I forked to the latest status of the original fork. This is easy to do, but you have to know which buttons to push. To start, open the forked repo in Github. You should see a mention that this branch is behind the original branch. Next to […]

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