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Configure Powerline and default terminal for Visual Studio Code

Setting default terminal

1. Open Visual Studio Code
2. Press CTRL + SHIFT + P to open the Command Palette
3. Search for “Terminal: Select Default Profile”
4. Select your preferred shell. In my case I selected “WLinux (WSL)”

Configuring Powerline fonts for integrated terminal

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#!/bin/bash

set -e

TEST_OUTPUT=`docker run --rm -v $WORKSPACE:/src/ mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/sdk:3.1 bash -c "cd /src/; dotnet test --logger 'trx;logfilename=testResults.trx';"`

sudo chown -R jenkins:jenkins .

FAIL_STR="Failed:"

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How to reset Jenkins build numbers

Steps

1. Log into Jenkins server
2. Navigate to Manage Jenkins
3. Select Script Console
4. Copy and adapt snippet from fig.1
5. Select Run
6. Check job and build numbers/history should be deleted/gone

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Jenkins Role-based Authorization Strategy issue with Matrix Authorization Plugin 3.0+

There is a known issue (as of 4/5/2022) with using the Role-based Authorization Strategy Jenkins plugin with the depedent Matrix Authorization plugin 3.0+

To fix the issue you have to add a record for every "No type prefix" error you see with users assigned to a role. Added the following to fix the "functionality":

USER:some-user

There will be two entry and the red error text will still display but the plugins should function properly otherwise.

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Fix The GPG keys listed for the "MySQL 5.7 Community Server" repository are already installed but they are not correct for this package.

This is relevant to Amazon Linux 2018.03

From the references basically:

1. Download the valid GPG Key:

wget https://repo.mysql.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-mysql-2022
mv ./RPM-GPG-KEY-mysql-2022 /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-mysql-2022

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#!/bin/bash

BITBUCKET_USERNAME=someperson
BITBUCKET_PASSWORD=somepassword

mkdir some-dir
# The follow command works by default in Amazon Linux 2 out of the box for Python 2.7.x
# App passwords need to be URL encoded to work
URL_ENCODED_PASSWORD=$(python -c "import urllib;print urllib.quote(raw_input())" <<< "${BITBUCKET_PASSWORD}")
git clone https://${BITBUCKET_USERNAME}:${URL_ENCODED_PASSWORD}@bitbucket.org/sometreamorg/somerepo.git some-dir

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#!/bin/bash

git clone git@github.com:whatever directory-name

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Follow bash best-practices

These examples were compiled from Best Practices for Writing Bash Scripts and Use the Unofficial Bash Strict Mode (Unless You Looove Debugging).

Another resource of note: Bash 3 Boilerplate.

As a single snippet, start your bash script with:

set -euo pipefail

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Updating Jenkins Java version from 8 to 11

From the references listed below the most important thing to note is that the Java version must match for the controller and the node/agent.

References

• Upgrading Jenkins Java version from 8 to 11
• Managing Nodes
• Using Jenkins agents

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#!/bin/bash

curl -L -b "oraclelicense=a" -O https://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/11.0.14%2B8/7e5bbbfffe8b45e59d52a96aacab2f04/jdk-11.0.14_linux-x64_bin.rpm

sudo rpm -Uvh jdk-11.0.14_linux-x64_bin.rpm

java -version

# If 11 does not display use the alternatives tool to set the version of java
sudo update-alternatives --config 'java'