The CI/CD landscape has gotten more crowded in the past years. For people new to the topic, just picking up the right tool can be a daunting task. — In this article, we will focus on the following features: On-Premise On-Premise refers to the possibility of running the tool on your own infrastructure. This means that you can install the tool on your own computer for learning purposes or deploy it on your infrastructure, including cloud.

While additional layers of security are useful and quite often mandatory, we sometimes forget about your backup plan. So what is the backup plan for AWS? — How it happened … I’ve made the uninspired decision of resetting the hardware device I have used for MFA on AWS. This resulted in it no longer being recognized by AWS. Since AWS does not offer any one-time codes you can use to recover your account, I went the troubleshooting route by clicking “Troubleshoot…

Your deployment environment may be a bit old school and you don’t need or can’t use Docker or Kubernetes. That is fine. In this tutorial, I will show you how to upload files to an FTP server from your GitLab CI pipeline. — There is a thing about automation you should know… GitLab CI is an amazing tool that lets us automate your scripts. However, we must not forget the meaning of the word “automation”. We want to automate something that already works, some manual task.

To improve performance the list of results in an API response is limited and split over multiple pages. So how to use Postman to navigate through multiple pages of records. We will need to use some advanced concepts to get this to work. — What is API pagination? Let’s begin with just a few basics. What is API pagination and why do we do it? Quite often, when trying to retrieve records, the number of results can be quite high. To return the full list of results in a single response would be very expensive, both in terms…

If you are trying to use the GitLab CI shared runners, you may run out of minutes. So, in this tutorial, I will show you how you can run your own GitLab Runner on AWS. — Here is an overview of what we will do in this tutorial: we will create a new virtual machine (VM) on AWS using EC2 install the GitLab Runner on the VM install any required dependencies on the VM configure the GitLab Runner to work with gitlab.com

In 2021 the number of organizations adopting Agile practices has continued to grow at an accelerated rate. This trend is expected to continue over the next years as organizations try to develop products in an agile way. Leading the agile transformation is the Scrum framework. But how do you get a Scrum certification? — Why get a Scrum certification? Before we get deeper into the discussion, let’s start with the WHY. Many of you may put no trust or value in certifications and I understand your point. They can’t really capture your skills and experience.

If you are working with Merge Requests in GitLab, you may see this message quite often. So what can be done to fix this and merge the branch? — So what is wrong? If you go to any merge request displaying this message, you will see that the branch does not have all changes from the main branch. Also, GitLab cannot rebase this as there are some conflicts. This occurs when you are using fast-forward merges.

By default, your Raspberry Pi will run some version of the Raspberry Pi OS, but using the 32-bit version. If you have a Raspberry Pi 4, the product specification clearly states that you have a 64-bit processor. At the time of this writing, the 64-bit version is still in development. But if you want to give it a try, here are the steps. — Installing the Raspberry Pi Imager Let’s make sure we are all on the same page. I have a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with 8GB of RAM. The installation process should be similar to any older or newer Raspberry Pis.

Configuring GitLab CI pipelines to work as desired is not always straightforward. A common issue is introducing rules to include or exclude jobs from a pipeline and this leads to unexpected results when using pipelines. Some wonder what is a detached pipeline in GitLab CI. Let’s try to understand what is happening behind the hood. — A simple pipeline Let’s begin with a simple example of a pipeline: