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 …

When reading the title you may think: “d’oh! that’s easy, with git log, of course!” And of course it’s done with git log. But what I didn’t know is that with git log -p path/to/file you can show the history of a file including …

When I wanted to inspect Docker-Container that existed in a remote Docker-registry, I normally used skopeo:

skopeo inspect docker://ubuntu:latest
{
    "Name": "docker.io/library/ubuntu",
    "Digest": "sha256:9a0bdde4188b896a372804be2384015e90e3f84906b750c1a53539b585fbbe7f",
    "RepoTags": [
        "10.04",
        "12.04",
        "12.04.5",
}

This command show me all the information about the image that I needed …