TIL different ways to clone multiple git repos at once

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 …

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TIL that you can use asterisks in systemctl status

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 …
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TIL how to create Github repos with Github

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 …

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TIL how to use Ansible-inventory for native ssh-connections

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 …

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