This will, for instance, allow you to redirect all matching domains to a certain server: dnsmasq will intercept the DNS query and return the ip you specified.

To do this, edit NetworkManager configuration in /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.conf and add in the main section dns=dnsmasq:

[main]
dns=dnsmasq

You …

I recently had to integrate Rollbar (a service to track errors) with a JS application. One nice thing about Rollbar is that if you provide it with source maps, it will point to you where the error is in the original unminified code.

Since the application is deployed with Ansible …

You can use signals and a context manager to acheive this. The idea is to register a function that will raise an exeption when the alarm signal is received and schedule the alarm signal for the timeout.

import signal
from contextlib import contextmanager


@contextmanager
def timeout(time):
    # Register a function …

By default, pip cache will be in ~/.pip. However, this folder cannot be cached by Gitlab. The trick is to force pip to use a folder located in the build directory with the --cache-dir option. You can then cache this folder.

For instance, you can use .pip as in the …