The company I work for provides a broad scope of IT services to our customers and to be able to offer the best quality services, we rely heavily on automation, especially Red Hat Ansible. In this blog post, we’ll look at what our workflow looks like when automating with …

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 …