As someone who frequently works with GitHub and GitLab repositories, I often need to get an overview of groups. At my workplace, we use GitLab’s group- and subgroup function to organize our team-specific and customer-specific structures.

Recently, I needed to clone all 27 repositories in our microservice-project. Doing this …

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 …

I needed to create multiple Github repositories and grant access to them for different users. After creating the first repository by hand and granting access to it, I had enough of it. There are just too many damn clicks!

So I used the CLI. Github has a nice cli-program called …

Actually I did not learn this today but already some years ago. Sometimes I need to connect to remote servers that have no hosts-file or dns-entry. But I don’t want to remember IP-addresses!

Luckily I do have these servers defined in Ansible’s hosts-file and I could theoretically …

Today I wanted to take the text of a Confluence page and convert it to Markdown.

Getting the text was rather easy (after some duckduckgoing): Confluence provides a REST-API that returns among other things the content of pages in json. Here’s the curl-command to do this:

curl "https …