Python Certifi and custom CAs

At my last project, I wrote a small Python utility program to create and delete secrets in Hashicorp Vault. This tool was executed inside a docker container (and the container ran in a CI-pipeline). The container also talked to some other services that use an internal CA that was …

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Simple Webhook-Tester in OpenShift

I needed to check the payload my alertmanager in OpenShift was sending out to the target-system (which was not under my control and I couldn’t check what was received).

There is some documentation online. However at the time of writing, the example in the documentation was not usable out-of-the-box …

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Dynamically include files in Gitlab-CI

Recently in a Gitlab-CI pipeline I needed to dynamically include several variables that lived inside a yaml-file. The file that needed to be included was defined as a CICD-variable coming from an external API-call that triggered the CI-pipeline.

The file were called after version-numbers, e.g …

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