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 …

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 …

In a .gitlab-ci.yml job, if you do not specify a tag for an image, the latest tag is used by default.

The default configuration of the gitlab-runner to pull Docker images is if-not-present, which means the image is only loaded if it is not already present. This in turn …

I recently wanted to share a code-snippet with a colleague. I decided to use Gitlab Snippets for this. However the snippet was more of some hundred lines of code in a text-file which I didn’t want to simply copy-paste.

Lucky for me I had python-gitlab installed, a Python library …

We have a set of common pipeline jobs that are shared among different projects in Gitlab. We include them like this:

include:
  - project: 'shared/gitlab/linting'
    ref: master
    file:
      - markdown.yml
      - ansible.yml

When you do this, these included jobs get executed with the runner that is defined in the …