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Allow external clients to connect to minikube service

Allow external clients to connect to minikube service Say you have a minikube cluster, you can use this minikube start tutorial as a reference, how can external applications or clients connect to it? You can run the following to expose balanced service (for example): $: kubectl port-forward --address 0.0.0.0 service/balanced 8080:8080 Refs: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64881583/how-to-access-external-service-using-the-minikube-hosts-public-ip-address Keywords: Kubernetes k8s minikube port forward

Enable Copy/Paste using VMware Remote Console

Enable Copy/Paste using VMware Remote Console VMware ESXi 6.5 disables copy/paste functionality by default for security reasons. If the security implications are acceptable, copy/paste funcationality can be enabled on per VM basis. It should be possible to change it at the host level but that will be for another post. Follow the following steps to allow copy/paste: Power down the VM Do Actions | Edit Settings In Edit Settings window, look for Edit Configuration button Add the following parameters Key Value isolation.tools.copy.disable FALSE isolation.tools.paste.disable FALSE isolation.tools.setGUIOptions.enable TRUE Power up the VM Refs: https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/57122 Keyworks: VMware copy paste vmrc Remote Console

Visual Studio 2022 not running unit tests

Visual Studio 2022 not running unit tests I have projects with unit tests working properly using Visual Studio 2019. Installed Visual Studio 2022 on another machine to try it out, running Nunit unit tests does nothing. It does not say it failed nor indicate something is wrong. It was actuallying failing but I am not looking at the correct output log. As you observe from the above screen capture, the default log shows Build output. What you wanted is the log for Tests . See below for the correct view. The Tests output shows the issue front and center. The tests were failing because it was configured to use .Net Core 3.1.x but it was not avaiable on the machine. One way to fix it is to use Visual Studio Installer and select .NET Core 3.1 Runtime (LTS) .

How to properly delete Windows10Upgrade folder

How to properly delete Windows10Upgrade folder So you are running out of storage and you are staring at Windows10Upgrade and wondering how you can get rid of it correctly? Well, fear no more, it is easy. Open up Control Panel and navigate to Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features or appwiz.cpl . Then look for Windows 10 Upgrade Assistant and uninstall the application.See below for how it looks like.

Get hostname from an IP in Windows

Get hostname from an IP in Windows Method 1 - Using built-in ping. This only works if a working DNS server has reverse look-up configured. c:\>ping -a 8.8.8.8 The hostname for 8.8.8.8 was returned as dns.google , below shows the output details. Pinging dns.google [8.8.8.8] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=52ms TTL=112 Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=112 Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=59ms TTL=112 Reply from 8.8.8.8: bytes=32 time=56ms TTL=112 Ping statistics for 8.8.8.8: Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss), Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds: Minimum = 52ms, Maximum = 59ms, Average = 55ms Method 2 - Using nslookup c:\>nslookup 8.8.8.8 This is the same as method 1, it needs a working DNS to provide the information Server: somedc.com Address: some_ip_here Name: dns.google Address: 8.8.8.8 Method 3 - Using nbtstat c:\>nbtstat -a 192.168.1.101 With the added bonus that

How to expand Ubuntu VM root partition

How to expand Ubuntu VM root partition In this post I have expanded the virtual disk of a Ubuntu VM via VirtualBox Media Manager. The OS inside the VM will not automatically use the additional space. In this post I will show how to expand the root partition to make use of the additional space. There are multiple ways to expand a partition in Linux, in this post I will document how to do it using GParted.  Change the VM configuration to boot using Ubuntu installer.  Boot the VM using the Ubuntu ISO installer Run GParted - in the warning dialog that says not all space is used, hit on the Fix button Select the partition to resize and click Resize/Move partition button Expand the partition to the desired size The hit on Apply All Operations Shutdown the VM, remove/detach ISO, then reboot the computer   .end.