Your Mac Environment

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Update softwares

• list available updates

  softwareupdate -l
  

• to install updatables

  softwareupdate -i -a
  

• to update a specific soft and version

  sudo softwareupdate -i <name>.<version>
  

MicroK8s

https://ubuntu.com/tutorials/install-microk8s-on-mac-os#1-overview

• installation

  brew install ubuntu/microk8s/microk8s
  

• when you install, first multipass must be installed (cf. multipass.run)

  microk8s install
  

• to remove multipass

  brew uninstall --zap multipass # to destroy all data, too
  

Exiftool

Read, Write and Edit Meta Information!

• https://exiftool.org or http://exiftool.sourceforge.net

Brew

https://brew.sh

/bin/bash -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)"

• to restore bundle, go to the directory where is stored Brewfile and run

  brew bundle
  

  Here is my Brewfile

Firefox

• download
• sync your firefox account

Standard Notes

• web app or
• download client for mac

iTerm2

• https://iterm2.com

Alfred

• https://www.alfredapp.com

Maintenance Onyx

• https://www.titanium-software.fr/fr/onyx.html

Messenger Tools

• whatsapp (https://apps.apple.com/fr/app/whatsapp-desktop/id1147396723?mt=12)
• signal (https://signal.org/fr/download/macos)
• mattermost
  • mathrice (https://mattermost.math.cnrs.fr) via gitlab:janus
  • univ-nantes (https://mattermost.univ-nantes.fr) via gitlab:edugain:un
  • inrae (https://team.forgemia.inra.fr) via gitlab:edugain:ecn
  • inria (https://mattermost.inria.fr) via gitlab:compte_externe
• rocketchat (https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.Electron/releases)
  • in2p3 (https://chat.in2p3.fr) via janus
  • esup (https://rocket.esup-portail.org) via janus
  • mathrice (https://rocketchat.math.cnrs.fr) via janus
• zoom.us
  • cnrs.zoom.us
  • ec-nantes.zoom.us

Cache Local DNS Resolver

• https://unbound.docs.nlnetlabs.nl/en/latest/index.html
• Reading links
  • An article by Bortzmeyer](https://www.bortzmeyer.org/unbound.html) or many articles related unbound
  • Configuring Unbound as a simple forwarding DNS server by Redhat
  • https://calomel.org/unbound_dns.html
• install

  brew install unbound

• update local dns cache with local IPs

  networksetup listallnetworkservices
  networksetup -getdnsservers "name_dns"
  
  ## set dns information   
  networksetup -setdnsservers "name_dns" ::1 127.0.0.1
  
  ## to restore default dns information
  networksetup -setdnsservers "name_dns" "empty" 
  

• flush and clear dns resolver

  sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; sudo killall mDNSResponderHelper; sudo dscacheutil -flushcache
  

• add this service manged by Launchctl, named here homebrew.mxcl.unbound.plist

  XMLCTL=/Library/LaunchDaemons/homebrew.mxcl.unbound.plist
  sudo chmod 644 $XMLCTL
  sudo launchctl load $XMLCTL
  

• control and manage your unbound service with

  sudo unbound-control status|stop|start

• check sites using dig

  dig +dnssec SOA com.
  dig +dnssec SOA ripe.net
  dig +dnssec SOA iis.se

  or

  sudo unbound-control lookup <ip>
  

• The scutil command can be used to manage and give information about the system configuration parameters. When used for DNS, it will show you all the configured resolvers though we are only interested in the first.

  scutil --dns

• check if unbound is stuck or not, use

  sudo unbound-control dump_requestlist
  

Nextcloud

• https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/releases/download/v3.5.2/Nextcloud-3.5.2.pkg

Configuration for desktop client

• cnrs : https://mycore.core-cloud.net/remote.php/dav/files/Richard.Randriatoamanana@ls2n.fr/

Openstack client command

source

• install brew first
• install pip with easy_install pip
• install openstack for python

  python3 -m pip install python-openstackclient
  

• check out binary path ~/Library/Python/3.x/bin/openstack

Work

VPN tools

• Pulse Secure
• Fortinet