DEV Community: Eutychus Towett

How to run a Golang Revel App with Docker and Docker Compose

Eutychus Towett — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 08:27:31 +0000

In this guide we are going to learn how to run a golang revel app using docker and docker-compose. Golang revel is a high productivity, full-stack web framework for the Go language.

Checkout the full guide here https://citizix.com/how-to-run-a-golang-revel-app-with-docker-and-docker-compose/

Building a REST CRUD app with Golang Revel

Eutychus Towett — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 19:32:22 +0000

In this tutorial we create will be a simple posts CRUD app that will connect to the Postgres Database.

Checkout the full guide here https://citizix.com/building-a-rest-crud-app-with-golang-revel/

Building a REST CRUD app with Golang Revel

Eutychus Towett — Mon, 01 Nov 2021 19:28:36 +0000

In this guide we are are going to check a simple implementation Revel Framework REST API. In this tutorial we create will be a simple posts CRUD app that will connect to the Postgres Database. Feel free to checkout the repo where the full code is hosted here.

Checkout the full guide here https://citizix.com/building-a-rest-crud-app-with-golang-revel/

How to install Go (Golang) in Arch Linux/Manjaro

Eutychus Towett — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 17:55:34 +0000

Learn How to install Go (Golang) in Arch Linux/Manjaro here https://citizix.com/how-to-install-go-golang-in-arch-linux-manjaro/

How to change the default Editor from Nano in Ubuntu/Debian

Eutychus Towett — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:25:07 +0000

Checkout this guide here on how to change the default guide for debian/ubuntu

Running MsSQL Server 2019 with Docker and Docker-Compose

Eutychus Towett — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 12:17:05 +0000

Wondering how to run MsSQL server using docker or docker compose? Checkout this guide https://citizix.com/how-to-run-mssql-server-2019-with-docker-and-docker-compose/

Database migration with Golang Goose

Eutychus Towett — Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:10:09 +0000

Database schema migration is the management of incremental, reversible changes and version control to relational database schemas. The migrations basically track granular changes to your database schema which are reflected as separate scripted files.

Golang Goose is a database migration tool. It allows you to manage your database schema by creating incremental SQL changes or Go functions.

Checkout this guide detailing how to manage database migrations with golang goose - https://citizix.com/managing-database-migrations-with-golang-goose-using-incremental-sql-changes/

How to launch an EC2 Instance with Terraform

Eutychus Towett — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 05:32:10 +0000

Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code software tool created by HashiCorp. To use terraform, you define the resources you want to create using a declarative configuration language created by Hashicorp known as HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL), or optionally JSON.

AWS is a popular cloud provider similar to Azure and GCP.

In this guide, we will see how to:

Define a provider
Define Terraform Version to use
Define variables
Create a Key Pair
Create an EC2 instance
Define a Security Group
Define outputs

Checkout the full guide here

Creating a Linux User With Ansible

Eutychus Towett — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 11:08:31 +0000

Linux is a multi user system, this means you can create multiple users.

To create user use this:

- name: Create user on a linux server
  hosts: remote-server
  become: yes
  gather_facts: false
  vars:
    - user: rocky
    - password: $6$OmUdHERAMzqjcbvb$bKp/b76h7EZ1EpFuXeN7ygvyzBgbZUdyQOK6seakitssSSrfYS50.JcXXsWxyBu7tUehMJGvB0alPR.Ls3BOR/
  tasks:
    - name: Create a login user
      user:
        name: "{{ user }}"
        password: "{{ password }}"
        groups:
          - wheel
        state: present

Please check out this blog post on Citizix here

Hi, I'm Eutychus Towett - https://citizix.com/

Eutychus Towett — Tue, 30 May 2017 15:43:23 +0000

I am a Sr. Devops Engineer based in Nairobi. I blog on https://citizix.com/ in my free time

You can find me on GitHub as etowett

I like anything to do with:

Linux Server administration
Open Source
Automations - talk Puppet, Ansible, terraform
Cloud - AWS, GCP, Digital Ocean mainly
Programming and scripting in Go, Python, Bash.
Containers - Kubernetes, Docker
Virtualization and high availability

Nice to meet you.