Category: Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks
January 4, 2019

Google Voice with Hangouts setup

Google Voice with Hangouts setup Intro We can use combination of Google Voice+Hangouts to get US cell number and forward it to any other outside US number for calls and texts. Inbound and outbound. Long story short, you have US virtual number 100% free. And unlike WhatsApp and similar apps its fully native cell number. […]

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Cloud
Infrastructure as a Code (IaC)
Tips & Tricks
November 12, 2018

Terraform – Orchestration Automation on Any Cloud

Provisioning cloud platform resources is never as simple as AWS and other cloud service providers claim. Especially in hybrid or multi-cloud models creating cloud resources consistently is not always straightforward. Even when a only a single cloud provider is being used, a businesses’ demands for cloud infrastructure are rarely static. New operational requirements may call […]

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Tips & Tricks
August 5, 2018

Hugo + netlifyCms image Handling and Shortcodes

Hugo All media files are located in static/img folder of the repository. In markdown text link on the image would be: /img/YourImage. Inserting image in markdown have only 2 params image src and alt as: If you need some other params like dimensions of picture, you can insert html tags or use Hugo shortcodes. Hugo has some default shortcodes. figure is default shortcode for […]

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Tips & Tricks
November 23, 2017

Easy ssh tunneling and port forwarding

Well configured ssh environment may save a lot of your time and is less error prone. Here we are going to cover the most common case where a client needs to access an application server which is behind a gateway server/bastion host. Later on we are going to build on this setup to add port […]

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Cloud
Tips & Tricks
November 20, 2017

ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID invalid certificate authority error. Ignore it?

Almost any web based tool in the office will have it. And we ignore it by default, without thinking about it. And it was ok to do so. Before cloud days. NOT ANYMORE… Lets think about it for a bit. Before Cloudwe connected to all of these web (https) based tools via Intranet, internal network. In […]

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Tips & Tricks
October 24, 2016

Junos Pulse VPN client on Linux. Two phase auth. 64bit. How to make it all work.

There are several problem common problems with Juniper SSL VPN on support of Linux clients: 1.Most 64-bit platforms are not supported.2.Junos Pulse SSL VPN does not support Linux at all. Best way to cover problem “1” is:http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11189826#post11189826There is also well known mad-scientist way but its more complex. Problem “2” is a bit more involved. In […]

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