Henrik's thoughts on life in IT, data and information management, cloud computing, cognitive computing, covering IBM Db2, IBM Cloud, Watson, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and more.
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Decode JWTs in bash
Thursday, April 20, 2023
Blast from the past: Procfile for Python cloud apps
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One of my first cloud apps |
Recently, I tried out a feature of IBM Cloud Code Engine: Deploying my app directly from source code. It was a simple app, but it failed. I was stunned and investigated the problem. To my surprise, I could have known it because it was something from the past: A Procfile was needed.
Thursday, March 30, 2023
IBM Cloud and Terraform: How to use a REST API
I am a regular user of the IBM Cloud provider plugin for Terraform. I use Terraform with the command line on my local machine or with IBM Cloud Schematics as managed service. Often, I am testing and evaluating new features. Sometimes, I face the situation where not all necessary functionality is available in Terraform. But luckily, often there exists already an API function. In this blog post I am going to show how to use a REST API with everything else done in Terraform.
Friday, March 24, 2023
Analyze your IBM Cloud access management setup
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ER diagram for cloud security data |
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
flatpak: How to deal with unwanted package updates
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Not all software is available as package for my Linux distribution. That's why I use flatpak for some applications. Recently, a new app version introduced a bug. It resulted in random crashes. So I looked into a way to get back to an older, more stable app version.
Friday, January 20, 2023
Create your IBM Cloud toolchain with Terraform
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Tekton pipeline in action on IBM Cloud |
Because the tutorial is from some years back, it has been updated, reworked, modernized, and kept in shape to stay current. The improvements include the code for the deployment automation.
Tuesday, January 10, 2023
Generate PowerPoint slides from your Db2 data with Python
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Generated PowerPoint slide with Db2 data |