Two years all-remote feels different throughout a pandemic and is nowhere near what I had planned. I needed to adjust to the situation and make it a different, challenging, yet exciting adventure. This blog post will focus on remote work, my challenges, growth, mistakes, and success. Let's start ... wait. Shoutout…
Getting started with CI/CD has become more easy with the DevOps platform era [https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2021/08/03/welcome-to-the-devops-platform-era/]. GitLab provides a new pipeline editor to help with onboarding, and allow to prevent common configuration mistakes. Pipelines and their definitions are always changing, and a work…
Today I was diving deeper into GitLab CI/CD Pipeline Efficiency tricks, after I discovered resuable job attributes with !reference [https://dnsmichi.at/2021/09/17/reusable-job-attributes-in-other-jobs-in-gitlab-ci-cd-with-reference/] last week. Resource optimization is a big topic, and next to ideas on failing fast, I was looking into more parallelization. Luckily GitLab…
Today I wrote some Python code [https://gitlab.com/dnsmichi/api-playground/-/merge_requests/6] and figured that I do not have linting available with pyflakes in CI/CD. Been reading this great blog post [https://dmerej.info/blog/post/how-i-lint/] and built a short snippet: stages: - lint -…
I've seen a question on the GitLab forum [https://forum.gitlab.com/t/deleting-personal-access-tokens-via-the-api/50382?u=dnsmichi] about managing Personal Access Tokens (PATs) with the API [https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/api/personal_access_tokens.html]. While trying things, I had a peek into filtering the output and quickly getting…
Use the /todo quick action in an issue to add it as a To-do, and follow-up later.…
Hi 👋 Remember this tweet [https://twitter.com/dnsmichi/status/1234573403002200064] just a few months ago? It was ~2 weeks before life changed drastically, on March 2nd, 2020 ... I made ambitious plans. 1 month onboarding, and then KubeCon EU, travelling Europe and later visiting the US. I was about to meet…
I started marking interesting sessions on my sched.com profile [https://kccncna20.sched.com/dnsmichi?iframe=no], also knowing about overlaps. I recommend reserving a focus time block after KubeCon to watch parallel sessions on-demand. The keynotes are always insightful and thoughtful, and inclusive. > "Diversity-powered resilience is what #CloudNative [https:…