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Find the current version

$ minikube version
minikube version: v1.7.1

Check if there are newer versions available

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How to update the Go version

System: Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora. Might work for others as well.

1. Uninstall the exisiting version

As mentioned here, to update a go version you will first need to uninstall the original version.

To uninstall, delete the /usr/local/go directory by:

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#!/usr/bin/env bash

# This script generates a list of repos in a GitHub org.
# The list can be pasted directly to a Microsoft Excel sheet.
# You will need to use your GitHub username in the username field.
# Update the page=N number to get the complete list of repos.
curl --silent --user "username" "https://api.github.com/orgs/vmware/repos?page=1&per_page=100" | npx jq '.[].html_url' | while read repo
do
    echo "=Hyperlink("$repo","$repo")"
done

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mkdir -p ~/.local/share/fonts
for type in Bold Light Medium Regular Retina; do wget -O ~/.local/share/fonts/FiraCode-$type.ttf "https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode/blob/master/distr/ttf/FiraCode-$type.ttf?raw=true"; done
fc-cache -f

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How to get Twitter gifs and short videos working on Firefox on Fedora

Note: This is for Fedora 28, however the process should be similar for other recent Fedora versions as well.

1. Go to https://www.youtube.com/html5 and check if all boxes are checked. If gifs or short videos don't work for you, you mostly do not have H.264 and MSE & H.264.

2. There are a bunch of repositories you need to setup.

sudo dnf install https://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm

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Kubernetes API Internals Codebase Walkthrough

The JSON file included in this gist gives a codebase walkthrough of the resource handling in the k8s apiserver.

The codebase walkthrough is created using CodeTour VS Code extension. To display the walkthrough in VS Code, use the JSON file using the Opening Tours functionality.

You might need to first open the workspace at the apiserver directory.

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GTK protocol error

Problem

If you are running as a root user while opening a GTK session on Linux i.e. using sudo, su, etc, you might encounter errors like:

No protocol specified
/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/gtk-2.0/gtk/__init__.py:57: GtkWarning: could not open display
 warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)

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You need the rights to reopen pull requests on the repository.

1. Write down the current commit hash of your PR-branch git log --oneline -1 <PR-BRANCH>
2. Write down the latest commit hash on github before the PR has been closed.
3. git push -f origin <GITHUB-HASH-FROM-STEP-2>:<PR-BRANCH>
4. Reopen the PR.
5. git push -f origin <HASH-FROM-STEP-1>:<PR-BRANCH>

Example

You've a PR branch my-feature currently at 1234567. Looking at the the PRs page, we see that the PR was closed when my-feature pointed at 0abcdef.

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Check broken links in Kubernetes Community repo

To help the community and make sure that all documentation is up to date and correct, a very important role to play is to make sure all links are working correctly.

To do this, you can use simple tools such as markdown-link-check.

Setup

1. Install markdown-link-check.

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recursive-delete-patterns:
- BUILD
- "*/BUILD"
- BUILD.bazel
- "*/BUILD.bazel"
- Gopkg.toml

rules:
- destination: apimachinery
  library: true