Various documents and HOWTO guides, for technology
Daniel uses Multipass rather than VSCode devcontainers, since he has some Windows machines with no Hyper-V and can’t run Docker Desktop, which devcontainers on Windows requires.
Having a demo/test site embedded in a Hugo module causes large bandwidth consumption during its normal use as a module. We split the site and module into separate git repos, but keep a deploy as part of the CI process.
It can be especially useful to use network booting to create virtual machines without using install media on the VM. To do that we netboot with iPXE.
You should backup your system. Really. Oh, and it should be to at least one other system.
Miscellaneous tasks and possibly useful things to do on your Alpine Linux system.
While the LBU mechanism with backups allows restoring to previous state it lacks commented history. It also does not apply to ‘sys’ mode installs.
Tracking configuration changes in etckeeper is great, but even better is storing in an off-system private repository.
For many systems you should have plenty of available RAM and storage to add the online documentation (mostly in the form of man pages).
For many users vi (the default editor for Alpine) is difficult and confusing to use.
Where possible it is a best practise to safely check your filesystems before mounting them. Here we add the needed packages.
