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Splitting predefined GCP roles

A short sketch of automatically creating custom roles that split the permissions in a pre-defined GCP role based on a regex. This can be useful in an environment which requires, e.g., more control over permissions like Set IAM Policy.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on January 26, 2024. Tagged with: howto, gcp, google cloud, terraform.

Extract a CA certificate bundle from macOS Keychain

How to export CA root certificates from macOS keychain as a PEM file that can be used with tools that don't easily integrate with the system trust store (e.g. almost anything UNIX-y).

Posted by Thomas Sutton on January 20, 2024. Tagged with: howto, certificates, python, curl, openssl, keychain.

Ledger accounting with GnuPG

Transparently encrypt your Ledger CLI plain-text accounting journals with GnuPG.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on January 4, 2024. Tagged with: howto, accounting, ledger, gnupg.

Setup Yubikey with OpenPGP for git

Setup a new Yubikey with, add OpenPGP keys, and configure git and GitHub to use them.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on January 3, 2024. Tagged with: howto, git, yubikey, gpg, ssh, github.

2023 Japanese Film Festival

Short reviews of the films I saw at the 2023 Japanese Film Festival in Sydney.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on November 5, 2023. Tagged with: events, films, japan, festival.

Notes on AWK scripting

A few notes about using AWK to write more substantial scripts.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on November 1, 2023. Tagged with: howto, awk, scripting.

Use Colima to build and run containers on macOS

Use Colima for Docker and Kubernetes development on your Mac.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on October 20, 2023. Tagged with: howto, linux, unix, docker, containers, macOS.

Installing OpenBSD on a Microsoft Surface Go 3

Installing OpenBSD 7.2 on a Microsoft Surface Go 3 and doing some basic setup.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on January 8, 2023. Tagged with: howto, openbsd, unix.

Visiting the UK distilleries and breweries

Work took me to the UK for the greater part of 2022 and I took advantage of opportunity to visit breweries, distilleries, and places I haven't seen before.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on April 2, 2022. Tagged with: travel, events, whisky, sake.

Aborting supersede Jenkins builds

How to get Jenkins to abort running builds that are supersede by a later build.

Posted by Thomas Sutton on June 30, 2021. Tagged with: howto, jenkins, ci.