rndmh3ro articles - 53 total
TIL how to define different Helm-Repos in a template
Recently I had to create a Helm-Chart (still not a fan of it, at all!) where the image was different...
Gitlab von der Kommandozeile aus bedienen
Glab ist ein Opensource-Tool, das es ermöglicht mit Gitlab über die Kommandozeile zu arbeiten....
Working with Gitlab on the CLI
Glab is an open-source tool that allows you to work with GitLab from the command line, eliminating...
Interesting Uses of Ansible’s ternary filter
Some time ago I discovered an interesting use of the ternary-filter in Ansible. A ternary-filter in...
TIL how to create Files and Commits via the Github-API and Github-CLI
Recently, I found myself needing to incorporate a CODEOWNERS-file to multiple repositories within our...
How I teach Ansible to my colleagues: A hands-on training session.
As someone with years of experience using and teaching Ansible I want to share with you how I teach...
TIL how to create Azure Prometheus datasources with Ansible
Since I spent some time today on this, I’d rather write it down. Creating a Prometheus datasource...
DevOps workflows and reliable automation
The company I work for provides a broad scope of IT services to our customers and to be able to offer...
TIL different ways to clone multiple git repos at once
As someone who frequently works with GitHub and GitLab repositories, I often need to get an overview...
TIL that you can use asterisks in systemctl status
I wanted to check if some services where running on a machine. The names of the services all start...
TIL how to archive all projects in a Gitlab group
Gitlab does not yet allow archiving all projects in a group at once. To do this, you can either...
TIL how to view the history of a file with git
When reading the title you may think: “d’oh! that’s easy, with git log, of course!” And of course...
TIL you can inspect Docker-Container now with the docker-cli
When I wanted to inspect Docker-Container that existed in a remote Docker-registry, I normally used...
TIL how to work with Gitlab-CI’s Pull Policy
In a .gitlab-ci.yml job, if you do not specify a tag for an image, the latest tag is used by...
Dockercontainer won’t start - Getting the final child’s pid from pipe caused “EOF”
Randomly some Docker-containers on a clients Linux machine wouldn’t start - they’d fail with the...
TIL how to find fresh forks of abandoned repositories
Often times I find a interesting or useful project on Github that is abandoned and has some issues....
TIL how to mass-unsubscribe from Github notifications
As part of my job I routinely create new Github repositories for my colleagues. One unfortunate...
TIL how to create Github repos with Github
I needed to create multiple Github repositories and grant access to them for different users. After...
TIL how to use Ansible-inventory for native ssh-connections
Actually I did not learn this today but already some years ago. Sometimes I need to connect to remote...
TIL how to upload files to Gitlab snippets from the CLI
I recently wanted to share a code-snippet with a colleague. I decided to use Gitlab Snippets for...
TIL how to get a plaintext list of Ansible hosts
There was a need to iterate over the hosts in an Ansible inventory-file (don’t ask). After fiddling...
TIL that Docker plugins need exec perms on the filesystem
For one of our customers we needed to install the Docker-plugin for loki. To install it, you...
TIL how to alter gitlab-ci include-directives
We have a set of common pipeline jobs that are shared among different projects in Gitlab. We include...
TIL that nginx http_limit_conn module can wreak havoc to your website
The nginx http_limit_conn module to limit http connections works as advertised. It limits the number...
TIL there’s a limit on Gitlabs job output
And it is (at least for my instance) 4194304 bytes. That is 4,19 mb. You can easily achieve this by...
TIL how to ship an executable with Poetry
I wanted to build an executable python script on PyPi, so it can be run like MyPackage instead of...
TIL that there is a else-clause in a Python for-loop
In Python if you want to execute something after a for-loop has finished, you can use a...
TIL that sometimes you need to pass a header to nginx’s gprc module
I am running Percona Monitoring and Managent (“PMM”) as a service for my fellow colleagues so they...
TIL that Hetzner offers a free DNS service
I host my private servers at Hetzner, a really nice, reliable and cheap german webhoster. Previously...
TIL that creating Markdown from HTML is hard
Today I wanted to take the text of a Confluence page and convert it to Markdown. Getting the text...