cici-tools, a multi-tool for building GitLab CI/CD pipelinesBrett Weir • 9 min read
Jul 3, 2023 — Writing the same GitLab CI/CD pipeline over and over isn't much fun, but making reusable pipelines at scale is hard. Here's a set of tools I've been developing to make things easier.
Read more»Brett Weir • 14 min read
Jun 12, 2023 — In this article, we'll deploy matching staging and production Kubernetes environments in DigitalOcean using a single GitLab-managed Terraform project, so that cluster administration is safe, reliable and not really something to worry about.
Read more»Brett Weir • 24 min read
Feb 27, 2023 — You run a pipeline on every commit, right? But what if you haven't committed in awhile? In this article, we'll automate a weekly pipeline schedule to exercise all projects, active or not.
Read more»Brett Weir • 20 min read
Feb 5, 2023 — If you want to really understand how something works, you gotta spend some time with it. Let's see what it would take to create our own Lighthouse CI/CD, without using the packaged solution.
Read more»Brett Weir • 5 min read
Jan 6, 2023 — We'll walk you through creating an Inkscape container to run in CI jobs, and prove that you can automate just about anything with a command line interface.
Read more»Brett Weir • 8 min read
Dec 30, 2022 — GitLab seems expensive, but when you consider what you'd need to buy to replace it, the price starts looking pretty reasonable.
Read more»Brett Weir • 4 min read
Dec 28, 2022 — Docker Hub limits the rate at which you can pull container images. Here's how you can use GitLab's built-in image proxy to get around these limits.
Read more»