• Mencoba selalu irit build time di Netlify

    Menggunakan Netlify untuk semua blog yang saya miliki, dan kelola sendiri sangat-sangat membantu, apalagi Netlify memiliki free plan yang sangat keren, saat ini saya masih bisa menggunakan Netlify untuk banyak blog yang dikelola, dan karena untuk free plan ini memiliki keterbatasan, salah satunya Build Time, jadi Netlify memberikan free build time selama 300 menit.

    Dan saat ini penggunaan build time yang saya gunakan sebagai berikut.

    netlify build list

    Dan karena free plan tadi, saya hanya bisa melakukan build satu website disaat yang sama, untuk yang versi berbayar bisa lebih dari satu build secara bersamaan.

    one build at a time

    Tapi yang penting ini semua masih cukup buat saya, jadi belum sampai harus bayar dulu untuk fitur-fitur premium lain.

  • Playing with Canonical Multipass

    Recently i’m looking for a solution to deploy a small kubernetes (k8s) cluster, with minimum requirements, easy to use, easy to provision, came across few options like rancher, okd, minikube, kind, and microk8s.

    Of cource, i installed all of it!

    And now using microk8s and kind for kubernetes development, a bit too much, but i’m interested with the technology, so i want to dig deeper to get the sense of the tools.

    While provisioning mickrok8s, which is a product from Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux distribution, it use a program called Multipass, this is interesting, a program to provision instances.

    Multipass reminding me a lot to Vagrant, it can search publicly available images (Ubuntu based of course), the program distributed to Windows, Linux, macOS, so i want to dig deeper with this Multipass.

    Since i’m using macOS, obviously installing it using homebrew, after that, we can call and execute the app from the terminal to get a better view what it’s capable of.

    So let’s try a basic command to get used with this application.

    Launching instance To launch an instance, execute this command multipass launch, it will launch a default option configuration, if you wanted to use a custom spec, you can call it with option, multipass -m 4G -n server-satu, this will create an instance with 4GB of RAM dan a host with server-satu name, quite easy right?.

    Or we can get creative with custom memory, cpu, and disk, like using this command multipass launch -m 4G -c 2 -d 20G -n server-satu, as you might guess, it will spin with 2 CPU, and 20G disk space, if you did not specity the name or alias of the instance, multipass will generate one for you, randomly.

    Other operation We can get more sub-command with multipass, like for example multipass list, it will displayed a list of instance that we launched

    ❯ multipass list
    Name                    State             IPv4             Image
    primary                 Stopped           --               Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
    creative-ant            Stopped           --               Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
    micro2                  Stopped           --               Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
    microk8s-vm             Stopped           --               Ubuntu 22.04 LTS
    

    Other command like delete, alias, info are some of many other command used on Multipass, the instance will took your space, and interestingly, that instances, you can either mount it or unmount it however you like, if it’s mounted, it will be displayed on your Multipass list command result, and if you wanted to mount other people’s image, you can, just find it using Multipass find, and it will displayed other image that other people already published (just be careful), and using Multipass it’s just like using docker or podman commannd.

    So right now, even thought i’m using UTM that uses Qemu for install an instance, but using Multipass is quite handy, and fast. I’m using UTM if i wanted to have another operating system like Windows, macOS, or other Linux distribution, that obviously did not supported by Multipass which only support Ubuntu, but it’s find, since i’m doing a lot of experiment using Ubuntu, it helped me a lot.

    If you wanted to have a small, easy to use Ubuntu , you can consider Multipass a go.

    On the much complex configuration, Multipass can use other virtualization drivers, like virtualbox, or Qemu for instance, using that it can provision other operating system like Windows or macOS, or other OS that suits your need.

    Maybe another chance, i’ll write about this.

  • Cloud vs on premise

    Recently listening on this podcast (or watch, if it’s on youtube) from Cloud Unplugged, they had an interview with The DHH, the creator of ruby on rails, and how his company decided to migrate from Cloud to comeback using on-premise solution.

    This conversation packed with how 37Signals as company, and DHH thinking about the pros and cons about abandoning cloud altogether, even it’s not all of their service, still some small parts deployed in the cloud.

    This move is not for everyone, and it’s quite fascinating conversation.

  • A Command Line Interface Spotify app

    Having to work with command line to interact with infrastructure, it’s convenience not to leave CLI and still listening to a music, that’s when recently i found this project, a spotify application client using a CLI, i’m using iTerm for terminal with tmux installed.

    Download the package here https://github.com/aome510/spotify-player, or you just install it using brew install spotify_player.

  • How to exit VIM

    Cracks me up!