Recently, I found myself needing to incorporate a CODEOWNERS-file to multiple repositories within our Github organization. The objective was to automatically reviewers for pull-requests. And codeowners are a perfect tool for this. This way every colleague in our company can join our Github organization and get write-access to the …

Since I spent some time today on this, I’d rather write it down. Creating a Prometheus datasource that uses Azure Authentication was not straight forward.

Here’s the end result:

---
- name: Create a datasource in Grafana
  hosts: localhost
  gather_facts: false
  tasks:
    - name: Create prometheus datasource
      community.grafana.grafana_datasource:
        name …

As someone who frequently works with both GitHub and GitLab repositories, I often find the need to get an overview of various projects that exist within an organization or group. At my workplace, we use GitLab’s group- and subgroup functionality to organize our team-specific and customer-specific structures.

Recently, I …

I wanted to check if some services where running on a machine. The names of the services all start with integration@, e.g. integration@foobar.

So to check for all the services, I simply ran systemctl status integration@* and it worked:

● integration@identity.service - integration App identity
   Loaded: loaded (/etc …

Gitlab does not yet allow archiving all projects in a group at once. To do this, you can either manually archive every project in the frontend, our you can do it via the API. Here’s an API-call to archive all projects within a group (using the gitlab-cli).

for …