Here are some exciting news from the BitBucket Pipelines blog:Â Bitbucket Pipelines now supports building Docker images, and service containers for database testing.
We developed Pipelines to enable teams to test and deploy software faster, using Docker containers to manage their build environment. Now we’re adding advanced Docker support – building Docker images, and Service containers for database testing.
Vidar Hokstad explains what systemd units are and how to write them. Â Very useful for that day when I will stop hating systemd and will try to embrace it.
Systemd has become the defacto new standard init for Linux-based systems. While not everyone has made the switch yet, pretty much all the major distros have made the decision to switch.
For most people this has not meant all that much yet, other than a lot of controversy. Systemd has built in SysV init system compatibility, and so it’s possible to avoid dealing with it quite well.
But there is much to be gained from picking up some basics. Systemd is very poweful.
I’m not going to deal with the basics of interacting with systemd as that’s well covered elsewhere. You can find a number of basic tips and tricks here.
Instead I want to talk about how to write systemd units.
Doug Vitale Tech Blog runs a post with a collection of the deprecated Linux networking commands and their replacements. Pretty handy if you want update some of your old bash scripts.
Deprecated command Replacement command(s) arp ip n (ip neighbor) ifconfig ip a (ip addr), ip link, ip -s (ip -stats) iptunnel ip tunnel iwconfig iw nameif ip link, ifrename netstat ss, ip route (for netstat-r), ip -s link (for netstat -i), ip maddr (for netstat-g) route ip r (ip route)
History of Icons looks at the evolution of icons used for desktop, mobile, and web. Â There are plenty of nostalgia triggering screenshots from a variety of systems. Â Given that nobody could ever afford having all of those systems, I’m sure you’ll find interesting screens from computers you didn’t have or didn’t see.
