GitLab

Trigger a Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform job/workflow from GitLab CI/CD Pipeline

Are you utilizing Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform or its open-source version, AWX, to streamline your Ansible playbooks? If so, and you want to trigger a job template or a workflow template from a GitLab CI/CD pipeline, you’ve come to(…)

How to delete a resource with the error: failed calling webhook

The original mistake In preparation of the GitLab essentials workshop, I’m using helm to deploy it. After a few tests, I wanted to clean up my cluster, and accidentally deleted the namespace before doing helm uninstall.

Share Gitlab agent to deploy microservices projects

In a microservice application, the code for each service has its own git repository. However, how do deploy without duplicating the Gitlab agents ? In Gitlab, you can share an agent between several projects to deploy the application on a(…)

Deploy an application with GitLab CI/CD

Following on from my previous article “Build and containerize an Angular application with GitLab CI/CD“, it’s now time to deploy this application. In this article, I will deploy the application on a Kubernetes cluster using Helm. Prerequisites Before starting,(…)

Declaring environments in GitLab

Why do I need to declare environments in GitLab ? To track deployed versions on each environment To control deployment on environments (e.g. add an approval to deploy production) Add environment-related variables An environment can be linked to a pipeline(…)

Connect a Kubernetes cluster to GitLab

To interact with a Kubernetes cluster during builds, deployments or other tasks in GitLab CI/CD, you need to install the GitLab agent on the cluster. This operation is very easy with GitLab ! The official documentation is available(…)

Build and containerize an Angular application with GitLab CI/CD

To deploy an Angular application into Kubernetes, the application needs to be build, containerized and pushed into a container registry before the deployment. In this project, I want to: Build the Angular Application using Angular CLI Create a new image(…)

Using WebHook’s from GitLab to execute external code and tools

by Alexandre Nestor Introduction WebHooks are HTTP callbacks that are triggered by events. In case of GitLab these can be events like pushing some code, or creating an issue, or pushing some comments. In this quick post I will(…)

The 1st Day at KubeCon & CloudNativeCon 2023 in Amsterdam

The KubeCon around the Kubernetes technology was one of the events I dreamed to attend since I’m focusing on the CloudNative solutions. I had the great opportunity to attend the KubeCon & CloundNativeCon in Amsterdam with my colleague Benoît Entzmann.

GitLab Migration and Upgrade

I’ve worked with my mate Donovan Winter (we are called Thomson and Thompson!) on a very interesting project for one of our customer that’s worth sharing. They had an old version of GitLab (release 13.3.4) running in a pod in(…)