Use Travis CI for Jekyll site generation

19 Aug 2020

Introduction

I have been using Jekyll for my homepage site generation for months and I’m happy with it. Usually my workflow for posting a new page involves:

Ansible 101

18 Aug 2020

Introduction

This post was supposed to discuss Ansible as the next primer series. However, I found Jeff’s posts and YouTube videos much better than what I would achive via a plain post. So definitely checkout Ansible 101 by Jeff Geerling. I also recommend purchase the eBook for further reading and as a reference manual for common tasks. Thank you.

Bazel Primer

09 Aug 2020

Introduction ¹

Bazel is an open-source build/test framework similar to Maven, Make, and Gradle.

It features:

• Human-readable, high-level build language
• Fast and reliable via caching
• Scalable
• Extensible for other language or framework

This post is a reading notes about the official documentation on Bazel version 3.4.0. You can skip these intros and jump directly to the sample repo to get started.

WireGuard Primer

08 Aug 2020

Introduction

WireGuard ¹ is a simple, fast, and modern VPN that utilizes cryptography.

It encapsulates IP packets over UDP. The general workflow can be summarized as:

• Install WireGuard
• Add a WireGuard interface (like wlan0/eth0 but named wg0/wg1…)
• Configure the interface with a private key and optionally add peer’s public key(s)
• Send packets to the interface

It’s similar to the ssh model. Both parties have each other’s public keys and they communicate by exchanging packets encrypted by the public keys through the WireGuard interface.

Value-Parameterized GTest

07 Aug 2020

Introduction

Last time I talked about gtest in the gtest primer, and in this post we discuss the usage of “value-paramterized” tests. In general, when you write a simple test case and verified it is working, what is the next step? Maybe you want to add more test cases! But how? Adding them by “hard-coding” the logics in the source files? It’s not a good idea since cases may evolve and we may later add new corner cases, maybe months later. At that time, you may already forgot how to write a test case using gtest.

Value-parameterized tests are a good way to organize your test cases and group them in a logical manner e.g. test cases for a particular API. I use value-parameterized tests and a YAML configuration file to dynamically add/reduce my test cases, so that adding or removing a test case is as simple as updating the YAML file.