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Resolve npm depends on node-gyp on Ubuntu 20.04

Resolve npm depends on node-gyp on Ubuntu 20.04

I've recently been trying to update NodeJS and NPM on a couple of my machines. Both machines started out as having Ubuntu 18.04 and have been upgraded to 20.04, and therein lies the problem. Having updated to 20.04, some of the upgrades broke the npm

Upgrading to Composer 2 using Ansible

A week ago I looked at upgrading to Composer 2 [https://www.garybell.co.uk/upgrading-to-composer-2/] on a couple of machines. The process wasn't as simple as I was hoping, or as what was documented. After that, I was worried about updating it for my Ansible configuration. Afterall,

DigitalOcean Droplet unable to resolve mirror locations?

DigitalOcean Droplet unable to resolve mirror locations?

You've set up a Droplet in DigitalOcean and locked things down to restrict access to it via the firewall. Great. You can access the server and make local changes fine, but you try to update or install something, only to be presented with terminal output similar to: Failed

Configure PHP and Apache on DigitalOcean with Ansible

Configure PHP and Apache on DigitalOcean with Ansible

Setting up a webserver for a PHP site is relatively straightforward for a basic configuration. Install and configure Apache (or nginx), install the relevant PHP modules, add the code and off you go. There's loads of tutorials out there for that. But what happens when you have a

How to fix the Symfony web profiler in Apache

How to fix the Symfony web profiler in Apache

So you've decided you want to create a web project using Symfony 5. Great! By now you've got the Welcome to Symfony 5.x.y message on screen; great. You're going to need the Apache pack to ensure the custom routes work nicely with

How to configure your CI pipeline environments

How to configure your CI pipeline environments

This seems like a very simple and trivial thing, but it's something which gets easily overlooked. Setting up a CI pipeline environment is fairly trivial (unless you are using a custom docker image - but that's for another time); just tell the script to use a

Test your deployment tasks

Test your deployment tasks

The great part of a CI/CD pipeline is the headache which can be removed from deployments. Manual deployments are painful, but deployments as a whole don't need to be. Automating deployments is a great way to avoid human error, and to be able to deploy with consistent