Archive for the ‘DevOps’ Category

Here are two real use cases where we helped our customers to build “Infrastructure as Code” using Terraform. 1. Customer from segment of energy saving and IoT The customer has a web application build using GitLab CI. The customer uses AWS as an infrastructure with Cloud front, S3, Route 53 and external DNS provider. They […]

Last week we hosted John Boero from HashiCorp company, who presented what’s new in Nomad (for about half an hour) and also answered questions asked about the product (for about another half hour). A total of 5 questions were asked and he managed to answer them all! We added the questions at the end of […]

Last week we hosted John Boero from HashiCorp company, who presented what’s new in Terraform and also answered questions asked about the product. A total of 10 questions were asked and he managed to answer them all! We added the questions at the end of this post. We edited the recording and also added subtitles […]

See how new features are distributed among stages and features GitLab 13.9 was released yesterday with dozens of new features. As we initially published a month ago, we released an updated diagram of all features in GitLab separated by stages (Y axis) and editions (Free / Premium / Ultimate). We are often asked about the […]

I am often asked about the benefits of GitLab Premium. I recently analyzed all the features in GitLab to quantify and visualize the value of GitLab Premium (in addition to a long list of features that can be seen here and in addition to the detailed spreadsheet we send to our customers). It is said […]

Last update: 2/27/2022 In this article, we want to tell you how to control versions of complex systems using git submodules. Let’s have a look at the following imaginary example.  Our company has developed a system named Car, which consisted of 3 subsystems: Motor, Steering, and Transmission. Each subsystem has been developed in a separate […]

Last update: 10/26/2020 We regularly help our customers plan and implement on-premises and cloud High Availability (HA) solutions in close networks (air-gapped) or cloud / hybrid, and for a variety of tools – e.g. Atlassian Bitbucket, GitLab, Jira, Artifactory, SonarQube, GitHub and more. We are often asked “which HA solution is better in the scope […]

I am happy to share a GitLab CI/CD video that is concise, technical and up-to-date. I have chosen this video as the best of several videos that I have recently watched. At your convenience, we have added subtitles, a summary of the video and the transcription of the video. You can watch the video and […]

This week we are hosting two GitLab employees (one of them is the first engineer at GitLab company) to discuss aspects of GitLab engineering, how GitLab was built and different aspects of using GitLab effectively. Webinar is free of charge. “Ask Me Anything” about GitLab Engineering (September 26th 2PM CET) We’ll be hosting: Marin Jankovski, Engineering Manager […]

Recently we witnessed a growing interest in GitLab and especially in its advanced built-in CI/CD component. To answer that interest, we have written a few papers on that topic and held several meetings (all of them recorded). As a result we were asked a number of questions about GitLab CI/CD. In this paper I want […]

Next week we are hosting a HashiCorp employee to discuss different aspects of using Vault effectively. Webinar is free of charge. Introducing Vault ; Integration with OpenShift and “Ask Me Anything” (July 31st 11AM CET) We are hosting Lieuwe Helmus, Senior Solution Engineer in HashiCorp Company, to discuss about Vault, integration with OpenShift and give you the chance to […]

This is a demo we got from GitLab company – we’ve edited and added English captions. It’s an updated technical demo that demonstrates how to use GitLab CI/CD: How to set configuration file of GitLab CI/CD (gitlab-ci.yml) How to run CI pipelines How to configure runners (nodes) and how to execute tests To watch demo […]

Foreword: What you gain by installing GitLab on Kubernetes (K8S) and what you don’t. As GitLab representatives in Israel, we are regularly asked technical questions about GitLab and tools, which integrate with it. One of the questions often asked lately is about GitLab’s integration with K8S. We have noticed that there is a popular assumption […]

GitLab is considered a breakthrough tool not just as a version control and CI tool – but also as a strong CD (Continuous Deployment) tool, especially if you work with containers (such as Docker) and Kubernetes. To demonstrate these benefits of GitLab,we have collected 7 selected videos that were released in the past year. They […]

This time I have chosen to summarize a lecture from the recent DevOps Enterprise Summit in London. The conference was organized by Gene Kim, the author of a well-known book, The Phoenix Project. Lecture recordings were published a few days ago. I have selected this specific lecture for a number of reasons: It’s an interesting […]