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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

In a current project I’m templating files using Jinja2 with the help of the jinja2-cli. Having used (and taught )Ansible for years I’m quite familar with Jinja2 so this was a natural choice.

The jinja2-cli can receive variables to template by different means. One way is by loading …