Over the last year or so I had been looking at migrating our current single-node Gitlab server to a more de-coupled/distributed architecture. The primary purpose was to ensure that a single component would not bring down the entire platform. By…
Gitlab is a great CI/CD tool along with all the benefits of being a SCM tool as well. Having said that, if you are self hosting Gitlab, and want to control the amount of storage, then a little bit of…
Overview In GitLab, templates can be used in pipelines to simplify the process of creating a pipeline. Templates are essentially predefined scripts that can be reused across multiple pipelines, making it easier to maintain and manage pipelines across an organization.…
There are occasions when you want to restrict certain steps in your Gitlab pipeline to one or more users only. Today I will show you how this can be made possible. Gitlab provides some pre-defined variables that can be used…