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Misc

Hide All Windows Except Current

Less clutter is good. There are times when there’s too many windows in our desktop. Having less clutter leads to better focus. Here’s how to hide all Windows on a Mac OS except for the current or active one.

Command + Option + h

I wished there was a command to bring them all back, but I have not found one yet.

Github SSH Keys Setup

Here’s how to setup your SSH keys to work with Github.

Generate a key using ed25519 public-key signature system.

ssh-keygen -t ed25519

It creates a id_ed25519.pub file.

Go to Github.com and open up Settings > SSH & GPG keys.

Click New SSH key. Give a title and paste your pub key. Authorize.

Where in Windows

How to find where the executable is located in Windows? Use the where command in CMD.

where gcloud
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\bin\gcloud
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\bin\gcloud.cmd

It will list multiple locations if you have several versions installed on your system.

Sublime Text Terraform Syntax

If you use Terraform and Sublime Text, add Terraform Syntax Highlighter using Package Control.

Press Ctrl+Shift+P or Cmd+Shift+P.
Select “Package Control: Install package”
Select “Terraform”

It should install in a few seconds.

Tomcat Install

Tomcat requires JRE.

wget jre-8uversion-linux-x64.tar.gz
# or
apt-get install default-jdk

Install Tomcat 8 on Linux.

wget https://mirrors.gigenet.com/apache/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.5.66/bin/apache-tomcat-8.5.66.tar.gz
tar zxpvf apache-tomcat-8.5.66.tar.gz
cd /opt/tomcat/apache-tomcat-8.5.66/bin/
./startup.sh

Status|Start|Stop|Restart Tomcat.

systemctl status tomcat8
systemctl start tomcat8
systemctl stop tomcat8
systemctl restart tomcat8

BitWarden

I changed password managers from LastPass to BitWarden the other day. Migrating your credentials requires exporting and importing a CSV file from one program to another. It was an easy transition. Everything seems to work. As you may be aware, LastPass decided to make their free account limited to just one device. Customers will need to choose which device to use, whether desktop or mobile. Not both. If you want it on multiple devices, you’ll need to fork up $3 per month. It is not that expensive, but there are other alternatives. A few recommend BitWarden. It will let you sync to all devices for free. It was an easy choice.

AWS Backup Setup

This script creates an AWS backup vault, adds a backup plan and a backup selection.

Set up profile, region and Account ID first.

#!/bin/bash
profile="default"
region="us-east-1"
id=$(aws sts get-caller-identity --query Account --output text)

Create a vault.

aws backup create-backup-vault \
--backup-vault-name my-vault \
--profile $profile \
--region $region

Create a backup plan.

aws backup create-backup-plan \
--backup-plan file://back-plan.json \ 
--profile $profile \
--region $region

backup-plan.json

{
    "BackupPlan": {
        "BackupPlanName": "efs-0000",
        "Rules": [
            {
                "RuleName": "efs-0000",
                "TargetBackupVaultName": "my-vault",
                "ScheduleExpression": "cron(0 0 ? * * *)",
                "StartWindowMinutes": 60,
                "CompletionWindowMinutes": 10080,
                "Lifecycle": {
                    "DeleteAfterDays": 7
                }
            }
        ]
    }
}

Get the backup plan ID.

planid=$(aws backup list-backup-plans \
  --query "BackupPlansList[?BackupPlanName=='efs-0000'].BackupPlanId" \
  --profile $profile \
  --region $region \
  --output text)

Create a backup selection.

# Create a backup selection
aws backup create-backup-selection \
--backup-plan-id $planid \
--cli-input-json file://backup-selection.json \
--profile $profile \
--region $region

backup-selection.json

{
    "BackupSelection": {
		"SelectionName": "efs-0000",
        "IamRoleArn": "arn:aws:iam::xxxxxxxxxxxx:role/service-role/AWSBackupDefaultServiceRole",
        "Resources": [],
        "ListOfTags": [
            {
                "ConditionType": "STRINGEQUALS",
                "ConditionKey": "aws-backup",
                "ConditionValue": "efs-0000"
            }
        ]
    }
}

The enable EFS backup, add a tag key of aws-backup with a value of efs-0000.