TIL that Gitlab pipelines won’t run without an owner

Today I noticed that a Gitlab scheduled pipeline wasn’t running anymore - it should have automatically. I checked and it wasn’t enabled at all!

At first I thought that somebody else on my team had made a mistake and accidentally disabled the scheduled pipeline. So I enabled the pipeline …

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Comparing the homepage-claims of popular Git hosting providers

Yesterday I talked to someone about different git hosting solutions and they complained about the marketing bullshit on one of the homepages of a popular provider (guess who!).

I then looked at one provider I liked using and sure enough, most of them use marketing bullshit, rather then selling what …

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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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