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Amazon ECR – Adding a tag to an image after it’s already pushed

The steps are taken from http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonECR/latest/userguide/retag-aws-cli.html. The issue I ran into is the wrong regions are selected. This is fixed with the –region param.

This is useful for adding tags to your :latest image. For example, QA looks at :latest, but my prod service looks for image :prod. I’ll also add a tag for the prod deployment date. 


MY_MANIFEST=$(aws ecr batch-get-image --repository-name REPO_NAME --image-ids imageTag=latest --region us-west-2 --query images[].imageManifest --output text)

aws ecr put-image --repository-name REPO_NAME --image-tag NEW_TAG_NAME --image-manifest "$MY_MANIFEST" --region us-west-2

Angular 2 route and route params not visible to all components, use ng-router-state-params service

Error

The Angular 2 router will only update the target component with the url and params. Each component is initialized only when it comes into view. If it already visible when the url changes, it will not be updated by the router. For google, angular 2 components not updating when url changes.

If you’re used to using Angular 1 with ui-router ($state and $stateParams services), using Angular 2 can be frustrating. Instead of using ui-router, we will try to stick with the barebones Angular 2 setup. Angular 2 has its own routing component that has been a huge improvement over the Angular 1 routing component. However, it does not follow the same design as ui-router, which was much easier in my opinion.

Error installing awscli into a docker container running node:latest

The Error

Installing awscli into a docker container running node:latest.

    building '_yaml' extension
    creating build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/ext
    x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc -pthread -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -g -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fPIC -I/usr/include/python3.4m -c ext/_yaml.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-3.4/ext/_yaml.o
    ext/_yaml.c:4:20: fatal error: Python.h: No such file or directory
     #include "Python.h"
                        ^
    compilation terminated.
    error: command 'x86_64-linux-gnu-gcc' failed with exit status 1

    ----------------------------------------
Command "/usr/bin/python3.4 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-wd2m_by7/pyyaml/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-ulirskuk-record/install-record.txt --single-version-externally-managed --compile" failed with error code 1 in /tmp/pip-build-wd2m_by7/pyyaml/

Mongoose connection events and reconnecting to MongoDB

I’ve seen many methods to have mongoose reconnect to mongo after an error. This is a huge problem, especially if the network drops for even a second. In our app, mongoose didn’t even know the connection had dropped, and our application would not be able to reach the database. To fix this, we had to force mongoose to reconnect on it’s own.