ALMtoolbox Blog

We hosted Jonathan Vermeulen, Senior Solutions Engineer in HashiCorp Company, to discuss about Vault and give you the chance to ask questions about Vault and HashiCorp’s latest SaaS offering. Vault Cloud (HCP) offers ease of use, no management, faster time to value, flexibility and utilizing Vault as a Service. It’s eventually the same functionality of […]

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 […]

Next week we are hosting HashiCorp company to discuss different aspects of using Vault effectively. Webinar is free of charge. Introducing Vault 1.7, Vault Cloud and “Ask Me Anything” (April 21th at 11AM CEST)   We are hosting John Boero, Solution Engineer in HashiCorp Company, to discuss about Vault and give you the chance to […]

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 […]

Last week we hosted John Boero from HashiCorp company, who presented what’s new in Consul (for about half an hour) and also answered questions asked about the product (for about another half hour). A total of 8 questions were asked and he managed to answer them all. We added the questions at the end of […]

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 […]

New Year is a great time to summarize the past year! So let’s see what happened with GitLab product. This time I decided to focus on new features that were released in 2020 and to represent some interesting data and insights as charts. As providers of DevOps and ALM solutions (and partners of GitLab company […]

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 […]

Recently, there has been a growing interest in Jira -alternative project management tools that work on a private server (on-premises / self-hosted) or in the cloud, can be connected to git or GitLab /GitHub and are open-source. One of the tools that meets those requirements is OpenProject – a product we officially represent and provide […]

Recently, there has been a growing interest in Jira -alternative project management tools that work on a private server (on-premises / self-hosted) or in the cloud, can be connected to git or GitLab /GitHub and are open-source. One of the tools that meet those requirements is Taiga – a product we officially represent and provide […]

Make the Right Choice for you: GitLab Self-managed vs SaaS (gitlab.com) Last update: September 2022 I have been asked many times in recent weeks how to decide between gitlab.com (SaaS / public cloud) or self-managed (on your own private machine – sometimes it is also called “Self-hosted”). This is a popular question since there are […]

Many GitLab Starter customers ask us “What are we losing by not having access to GitLab Premium capabilities?” And there’s another version of the question, asked by those who use the free GitLab version or have not yet used GitLab – and they ask: “What are the differences between Starter and Premium?” or: “Why should […]

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 […]