Tag: Ubuntu


  • Ubuntu 24.04 LTS OneDrive

    Ubuntu 24.04 LTS OneDrive

    I’ve not had much time to play around with the latest release but this is cool – OneDrive Nautilus integration.

    Settings > Online Accounts > Microsoft 365, leave everything blank and hit “Sign in…”. Web page opens to authenticate and then you can mount OneDrive in Nautilus.

    Edit: There’s a wee bug…

    So it won’t re-connect on reboot but there’s a solution here: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/05/fix-ubuntu-onedrive-account-error


  • Update Plesk Docker Images

    Docker > Settings > Overview > Recreate, making sure that “Reset variable to default” is not checked.

    Finally start.


  • Multipass cloud-init

    Multipass cloud-init

    Multipass is pretty useful but what a pain this was to figure out, due to Ubuntu’s Node.js package not working with AWS-CDK.

    Multipass lets you manage VM in Ubuntu and can take cloud-init scripts as a parameter. I wanted an Ubuntu LTS instance with AWS CDK, which needs Node.js and python3-venv.

    #cloud-config
    packages:
      - python3-venv
      - unzip
    
    package_update: true
    
    package_upgrade: true
    
    write_files:
      - path: "/etc/environment"
        append: true
        content: |
          export PATH=\
          /opt/node-v20.11.1-linux-x64/bin:\
          /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:\
          /usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:\
          /usr/games:/usr/local/games:\
          /snap/bin
    
    runcmd:
      - wget https://nodejs.org/dist/v20.11.1/node-v20.11.1-linux-x64.tar.xz 
      - tar xvf node-v20.11.1-linux-x64.tar.xz -C /opt
      - export PATH=/opt/node-v20.11.1-linux-x64/bin:$PATH
      - npm install -g npm@latest
      - npm install -g aws-cdk
      - git config --system user.name "Dougie Richardson"
      - git config --system user.email "xx@xxxxxxxxx.com"
      - git config --system init.defaultBranch main
      - wget https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip
      - unzip awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip
      - ./aws/install

    Save that as cdk.yaml and spin up an new instance:

    multipass launch --name cdk --cloud-init cdk.yaml
    Success!

    There’s a couple useful things to note if you’re checking this out:

    • Inside the VM there’s a useful log to assist debugging /var/log/cloud-init-output.log.
    • While YAML has lots of ways to split text over multiple lines, when you don’t want space use a backslash.

    Shell into the new VM with multipass shell cdk, then we can configure programmatic access and bootstrap CDK.

    aws sso configure
    aws sso login --profile profile_name
    aws sts get-caller-identity --profile profile_name
    aws configure get region --profile profile_name

    The last two commands give the account and region to bootstrap:

    cdk bootstrap aws://account_number/region --profile profile_name