Adding git bash to Windows terminal
I just saw a tweet saying that Windows terminal is now generally available, so I had to give it a try. After downloading from the store and booting up I realized that only powershell, cmd and wsl are listed by default (and also Azure which I don’t really care about). Clicking around the UI a…
Automatic cleanup of old gcloud container images
I have been using Google Cloud Build for a budget project for roughly a year now. Cloud Build stores built images in a storage bucket which you are of course billed for. Within the first weeks of using it I realized that I needed some automated way to cleanup unused and old images that were…
A firewall is blocking sharing between Windows and the containers – Docker
I recently encountered this error while trying to run one of my docker setups. I have encountered errors like this before and it has always ended up being related to docker and sharing my drives to the linux VM that actually runs my containers. Checking the shared drives menu of the docker UI everything seemed…
WMDE: CI, Deploys & Config changes intro
This is an internal WMDE presentation made to introduce people to the land of Wikimedia CI, MediaWiki deployment and config changes. This briefly covers: Jenkins & Zuul CI Config Beta Cluster SWAT The MediaWiki train Monitoring mediawiki-config The Docker & Kubernetes future?
WMDE: Event Logging intro
This is an internal WMDE presentation made to introduce people to Event Logging. MediaWiki extension: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EventLogging Guide: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:EventLogging/Guide
WMDE: Wikibase Docker intro
This is an internal WMDE presentation made to introduce people to Docker and the Wikibase docker images already introduced in this post.
Wikicite 2017: ‘extends’-attribute for ref-tag
This presentation was used as part of a lightning talk at Wikicite 2017 promoting the plan by the WMDE community tech team to implement an extends attribute for the ref tag in wikitext. The aim of the presentation was to prompt questions and discussion. This relates to phabricator ticket https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T151301
Wikimedia Hackathon 2017: mediawiki-docker-dev showcase presentation
This presentation was used during the 2017 Wikimedia Hackathon showcase presentations. The code shown can be found @ https://github.com/addshore/mediawiki-docker-dev
WMDE: Metrics & Data Gatherings
Below you will find an internal WMDE presentation covering the general area of WMDE Metric & Data Gatherings from 2016. This presentation follows on from the initial introduction to engineering analytics activities. The presentation skims through: WMDE Grafana dashboards The Wikimedia Analytics landscape Grafana & graphite Hadoop, Kafka, Hive & Oozie EventLogging, Mysql replicas &…
WMDE: Engineering Analytics Activities
This is an internal WMDE presentation given at the start of “metric driven development” for the WMDE & Wikidata dev teams. The presentation is pretty bare bones but it provides a general overview of the plan and links to the current state of things. The main area of interest from the presentation is the…