How to install a specific Python version on Linux

Hello, 👋 In this article I will show you how to install Python versions on Linux using the following methods: compiling from source, dead snakes ppa and pyenv. To make things easier, if you want to follow along in an environment that you can break, you can create a local Kubernetes cluster using Minikube. Next, I’m going to use the following yaml file to create an Ubuntu pod: apiVersion: v1 kind: Pod metadata: name: ubuntu labels: app: ubuntu spec: containers: - image: ubuntu command: - "sleep" - "604800" imagePullPolicy: IfNotPresent name: ubuntu restartPolicy: Always Save the above yaml in a file ubuntu_pod....

February 5, 2022 Â· 2 min Â· Denis NuČ›iu

fzf – A command-line fuzzy finder 🌸

Hi 👋, fzf is a command line tool that can be used to fuzzy search files, history, and command outputs. Check out the Github repository. This is a tool that I wish I’ve knew about earlier in my career, and for this reason I decided to blog about it. You can also set key bindings; some popular ones are: CTRL-T – Paste the selected files and directories onto the command-line...

September 22, 2021 Â· 1 min Â· Denis NuČ›iu

Kubernetes service account for pod

Hi 🙋‍♂️, In this article I will talk about how to authenticate your applications to the Kubernetes API via the service accounts feature. Citing the Kubernetes docs, a service account for a pod: “provides an identity for processes that run in a Pod. When you (a human) access the cluster (for example, using kubectl), you are authenticated by the apiserver as a particular User Account (currently this is usually admin, unless your cluster administrator has customized your cluster)....

June 5, 2021 Â· 3 min Â· Denis NuČ›iu

FastAPI Uvicorn logging in Production

Hello 🙋‍♂️, Running a ⏩FastAPI ⏩ application in production is very easy and fast, but along the way some Uvicorn logs are lost. In this article I will discuss how to write a custom UvicornWorker and to centralize your logging configuration into a single file. To keep things as simple as possible I’ve put all my code in a single Python file. main.py import uvicorn as uvicorn from fastapi import FastAPI, APIRouter router = APIRouter(prefix="") def create_app(): fast_app = FastAPI() fast_app....

May 18, 2021 Â· 3 min Â· Denis NuČ›iu

Introduction to Pyenv for Linux Users

Hello, In this article I will introduce you to pyenv, a tool for managing python environments. Installing pyenv is pretty straight forward, you’ll need to clone the repo and add the binaries to the path. For a typical Debian based distro using the Zsh shell the instructions would be: git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv.git ~/.pyenv echo 'export PYENV_ROOT="$HOME/.pyenv"' >> ~/.zshrc echo 'export PATH="$PYENV_ROOT/bin:$PATH"' >> ~/.zshrc Then, in order for this to take effect, you need to reload the shell with: source ~/....

June 27, 2020 Â· 4 min Â· Denis NuČ›iu