Graduate Program KB

Term 1 - Week 1

Set up Accounts

• Gitlab Account
• Product Factory AWS Accounts
• Leetcode
• Miro

Reinstall Ubuntu

Use the installation guide here to re-install Ubuntu on your new laptop. Note: Step 7, Enable Encryption is mandatory and should not be skipped.

Install Applications

• Install Chrome Browser

• Install Pip

  sudo apt install python3-pip
  

• Install Docker

• Setup the Microsoft Teams Progressive Web Application (PWA) in Chrome

• Fix broken Teams notifications sounds

  • Install Teams Notification Sound Chrome extension
  • Source

• Add Visual Studio Code Repository

    sudo apt-get install wget gpg
    wget -qO- https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > packages.microsoft.gpg
    sudo install -D -o root -g root -m 644 packages.microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/keyrings/packages.microsoft.gpg
    sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64,arm64,armhf signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/packages.microsoft.gpg] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/code stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/vscode.list'
    rm -f packages.microsoft.gpg
  

• Install Visual Studio Code

    sudo apt install apt-transport-https
    sudo apt update
    sudo apt install code
  

• Install VS Code Live Share Extension

  • Open VS code
  • Hit ctrl-p
  • Enter ext install MS-vsliveshare.vsliveshare
  • Login by clicking Live Share in the bottom status bar
  • Sign in with your J1 microsoft account

• Install VS Code MDX Extension

  • Open VS code
  • Hit ctrl-p
  • Enter ext install unifiedjs.vscode-mdx

• Install AWS CLI

    curl "https://awscli.amazonaws.com/awscli-exe-linux-x86_64.zip" -o "awscliv2.zip"
    unzip awscliv2.zip
    sudo ./aws/install
    rm -r awscliv2.zip aws
  

• Install Git Remote Codecommit (GRC)

    sudo pip install git-remote-codecommit
  

• Install NVM

    curl -o- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nvm-sh/nvm/v0.37.2/install.sh | bash
  

• Install Latest Version of Node (Using NVM)

    nvm install node
  

• Install rebase-editor

    npm install -g rebase-editor
  

• Configure git to use rebase-editor by default

    git config --global sequence.editor rebase-editor
  

• This may cause potential issues (particularly when it comes to executing a rebase),
  Use below command to set VIM as your rebase editor:

  git config --global core.editor vim
  

Set Visual Studio Code as the default text editor

• For shell

    echo "export EDITOR=code" >> ~/.profile
  

• For the desktop environment

  sudo update-alternatives --config editor
  

  Enter the number for /usr/bin/code

AWS SSO Configuration

• Create Sandbox Profile

    aws configure sso
    Session name: J1
    SSO start URL: https://j1.awsapps.com/start
    SSO region: ap-southeast-2
    SSO registration scopes: (leave blank)
    select sandbox with your name (firstname-lastname-sandbox)
    CLI default client Region: ap-southeast-2
    CLI default output format: json
    CLI profile name: sandbox
  

• Configure Product Factory Profile

    aws configure sso
  

  Use same settings as above except selecting the pf-workload account and name the profile pf-workload-developer

Refresh AWS Token

• Note: Your AWS session token for pf-workloads-developer account will most likely have expired (it's only valid for 8 hours). You'll need to get a new session token. In your terminal type the following and follow the prompts:

    aws sso login --profile pf-workload-developer
  

Create bash alias for token refresh

• Write this in ~/.bash_aliases

    alias login-pf='aws sso login --profile pf-workload-developer'
  

Configure Git Profile

• git config --global user.email "firstname.lastname@journeyone.com.au"
  git config --global user.name "Your Name"
  

Check out the Graduate Knowledge Base Repository

• login into aws
• switch to (ap-southeast-2) Sydney region near the top right corner next to your account
• Go to Codecommit
• Clone URL -> Clone HTTPS (GRC)
• Add pf-workload-developer profile after the ://
• Example

    git clone codecommit::ap-southeast-2://pf-workload-developer@graduate-programme-kb-v2
  

Set up Jira

• You should have an email with an invite to set up a Jira account
• After creating the account go to the security tab of the atlassian account settings
  • Set up 2fa
  • Create an API token called dev-terminal-env

Set up the development terminal

• Follow the instructions

Clone Jibility

• From the devterm

  git clone git@gitlab.com:jihua/jibility.git
  

Bookmark Jibility feature toggles

https://localhost:9000/?ft=dev-tools,support-view

Increase node's max heap size

echo 'export NODE_OPTIONS="--max-old-space-size=4096"' >> ~/.profile

Increase swap space

sudo fallocate -l 16G /swapfile
sudo chmod 0600 /swapfile
sudo mkswap /swapfile
sudo swapon /swapfile
sudo bash -c "echo -e '/swapfile\tnone\tswap\tsw\t0\t0' >> /etc/fstab"

This creates a file at /swapfile that will be used when the system runs out of RAM. To delete the swapfile use

sudo swapoff /swapfile
sudo rm /swapfile

And remove the line referencing /swapfile from /etc/fstab

Increase the maximum number of file watches for a process

sudo bash -c "echo 'fs.inotify.max_user_watches = 500000' >> /etc/sysctl.conf"
sudo sysctl --system

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