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[ Solved ] `33554536:system library:OPENSSL_internal:Connection reset by peer` Error with GCLB + Gateway API + OSS Istio
I was trying to get a PoC of Google global external load-balancer to work with Gateway API and Istio as gateway class running in a standard GKE cluster. Everything was working as expected except I got My setup looks like below First I tried to test if the request can be served by the gateway:…
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[ Solved ] WiFi Kept Disconnecting in Arch Linux
Since my home WiFi 6e upgrade, my Alienware laptop running Arch Linux couldn’t connect to WiFi anymore. To be precise, it could connect but just kept disconnecting. I didn’t have the appetite to troubleshoot it until recently. When I looked into the system logs, I saw a lot of things going on but basically iwd…
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How to Test a Terraform Provider Locally
In a .tf file, in a required_providers block all the Terraform providers will be listed there. When terraform plan is executed the providers will be pull from a registry or cache if defined. But how to test a provider that’s not published to a registry yet? Say the provider is called raynix so normally we’d…
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[ Solved ] AMD Radeon 9070 XT Random Black Screen on Arch Linux
I have been an nVidia fan for quite a while(who wasn’t), until recently. There are quite some positive reviews on AMD Radeon cards on Linux, also the AMD’s Linux driver support has improved a lot. When I decided to upgrade from my good old nVidia RTX 3080, I thought I might just give AMD Radeon…
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[ Solved ] Can’t Install vkd3d and dxvk-nvapi in Bottles
As of Bottles version 51.24, which is the latest on Arch Linux at least, some of the components couldn’t be install normally. In order to see what’s the error message, I started Bottles from a terminal: This is really handy for troubleshooting anything. When I clicked on the download icon I saw it’s actually just…
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How to Install Eve Online on Arch Linux Using Bottles
Since a while ago, Eve Online started to work again on Steam on my Arch Linux system. It’s great as no troubleshooting or tuning is required. I wondered if I can skip Steam and install Eve Online directly, the reason is that Steam must have some impact on games like the overlays, etc., because I…
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Google SSO and ArgoCD Localhost
TL; DR: I needed to enable Google SSO for ArgoCD at localhost because I planned to upgrade Istio using ArgoCD however the process will make ArgoCD unavailable as the ingress gateway ArgoCD depends on will be replaced I was doing an Istio upgrade for yet another GKE cluster but this time it’s a bit special…
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How to Connect to a CloudSQL MySQL Instance with Private IP
Not sure about everyone else, I wouldn’t run my MySQL server like a website with a public IP attached. Making the instance private is good as a security approach it is a bit inconvenient when I need to connect to it from my laptop. With Google Cloud CLI gcloud command, it’s very easy to connect…