Productivity on Thorsten Hans

Debugging apps in Kubernetes with Bridge

Wed, 28 Jul 2021 12:40:38 +0200

One of the most common questions I get when teaching developers in Kubernetes is

“How can I debug my application once it is deployed to Kubernetes?”

Although there are several ways how to achieve that, this post will explain and demonstrate how to debug applications running in Kubernetes using Bridge to Kubernetes (Bridge).

What is Bridge to Kubernetes

Bridge to Kubernetes (Bridge), the successor of “local process” is an IDE / editor extension. It allows developers to debug and test application counterparts (or microservices) on their local machine. While debugging locally, downstream and related components are consumed directly from within the Kubernetes cluster. Existing configuration objects - such as Kubernetes ConfigMaps, or Secrets -, and volumes mounted to the Pod are also applied to the local debugging instance seamlessly.

Treat your iTerm2 like Guake

Sat, 15 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

iTerm2 is a real productivity boost for macOS users. There are numerous great features built in the terminal replacement. This article will explain how to configure the hotkey window iTerm is offering.

Over the past couple of weeks, I found myself using Ubuntu quiet often. Unfortunately, iTerm2 isn’t available for Ubuntu, but there is Guake which is another powerful terminal. The experience and integration Guake is offering for Linux distributions is amazing, Guake registers a global shortcut to easily open the terminal no matter where you’re currently working on.

Setting up iTerm2 with OH-MY-ZSH and Powerline on OSX

Thu, 07 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

When people ask me why I’m using a Mac instead of a Windows device for doing all my stuff, I always end up with a single but significant reason: I have a real shell! Most hardcore Windows fans are answering to this comment: “Well there is PowerShell” or: “Hey we have Cygwin” but to be honest, those are no alternatives to a real shell 🙂

A few people asked me over the time which configuration/theme and stuff I use within my terminal and because I’ve to set up a new device in these days (a stunning brand new 13" MBP Retina with ForceTouch)

Managing Node.js and io.js with NVM

Mon, 23 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Are you building Node.js Apps? Use NVM!

If you haven’t seen NVM (Node Version Manager) in action, go and install it now. I can’t imagine working with Node.js based projects without NVM. I wrote this short post because I saw a friend of mine doing some first steps in Node.js without having NVM installed. So instead of explaining him the basics on a phone call, I wrote this summary, which I’d like to share with you.

Developer presentations using reveal.js

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

reveal.js has been around for a while. I saw many people using it for their presentations (for example AC ). AC also wrote a great article on how he is organizing his presentations on GitHub using reveal.js.

AC’s idea is cool, but I wanted something more something which is less pain, I don’t want to set up a gh-pages branch on every repo I create for my demos.

Instead, I built a presentation hub using reveal.js and some simple Gulp.js tasks.

Productivity boost with SublimeText Plugins

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:00 +0000

For developing native web languages I use SublimeText 2 (http://www.sublimetext.com/ ). Like many other editors, SublimeText offers a great plugin ecosystem, which allows you as a developer to add various functionality by installing additional packages.

Within this post I’ll introduce some plugins I’m using to increase my developer performance.

Package Control

Package Control is the most robust and vital plugin; it allows you to add new plugins to sublime without typing endless commands into the console or manually copying files to the application directory. To install Package Control, you’ve to execute the following script from Sublime Text’s Console