Archive for the ‘GitHub’ Category

  Last update: July 25th 2022 We’re asked many times about the differences of SaaS offering (public cloud) provided by GitHub, GitLab and Atlassian Bitbucket. The vendors tend to update terms and offering quite frequently, so we decided to make an up-to-date comparison list (Excel sheet) with all relevant criteria, including: Max users (private repos) […]

GitHub reported that a hacker was apparently exploiting a security vulnerability or human error on 3rd-party apps Travis and Heroku. The security vulnerability exposed the tokens, allowing the hacker to steal the tokens and utilize them to enter private repositories on GitHub (including NPM) so he managed to download those repositories – including all the […]

Recently Atlassian company shocked and angered its community of users worldwide (including ourselves) by deciding to sunset its on-premises software. We support many customers with Atlassian on-premises installations, and during the last few weeks we have received dozens of inquiries asking,  “What do we do now?” My first response was, “Wait a little, if you […]

Starting from today, GitHub is offering unlimited free repositories – at no charge  – on their public cloud (github dot com). It’s good for those who have a side-project and they want to keep it private; those who want to keep files private and those who want to hide a project before they make it […]

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 several questions about GitLab CI/CD. In this paper I want to address […]

Starting from today, GitHub is offering free repositories – at no charge  – on their public cloud (github dot com). They limit it to 3 free collaborator users (who write code), and you have to pay if you have more than 3 (as it was before). It’s good for those who have a side-project and […]

Spotinst now offers a new service that enables you to integrate their Elastigroup to GitLab CI/CD. That means you can enjoy 3 benefits: Save money on Spot instances you install on AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2. You can save up to 80% by using Spotinst (read below what Spot instances are) High availability that Spotinst […]

A great technical and short video we found online! We got the approval of the guy who made it (Gonzalo Sanchez) and added English Captions. Enjoy! If you want us to provide similar videos for Eclipse and IntelliJ, just let us know by contacting us: gitlab@almtoolbox.com [chimpy_form forms=”2″]   ALMtoolbox company is a GitLab authorised […]

Industry leaders partner to maximise reach of joint DevOps solutions and capabilities. Tel-Aviv 22nd May, 2016 – ALMtoolbox, the leading DevOps and Digital Transformation Consultancy headquartered in Israel, today announced its strategic partnership with GitHub, the platform millions of developers and organisations around the world use to discover, share and contribute to projects. Under this partnership, […]

Developers, we have some tickets to share with you, for the GitHub Satellite conference in Amsterdam on 5/11. A ticket, worth 349 Euro, gives you free entrance to all sessions – plus the party at the end of the day! This event is full of case studies and great material for those who work with […]