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Tag: docker

Vibing in Kiro to create a self-serve Portainer wrapper.

by yer.ac

On a Friday afternoon with half an hour to spare, I tested Kiro, Amazon’s new agentic IDE, against a real-world problem: giving my team a simple way to start and stop Docker services in Portainer. With nothing more than a rough prompt, a PowerShell script, and a few “Trust command” clicks, Kiro spun up a working self-service dashboard in under 30 minutes. It wasn’t production-ready, but it showed how close agent-driven coding can get with minimal input — and why pricing and trust still matter more than the hype

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Fixing “hostfxr.dll could not be found” within Windows Docker container (.NET installed from dotnet-install.ps1)

by yer.ac

This is here mostly for my own reference for next time I need to fix this, but may be useful to someone else. Installing .NET (5, Core, etc.) via the Microsoft Supplied “dotnet-install.ps1″(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-install-script) installs the frameworks fine, but then running .net core code within that windows container would sometimes yield an error like The problem …

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