Posted in 2016

Continuous integration with GitLab and Docker

I’ve given a talk about continuous integration with GitLab and Docker on Developer Meetup VlbgWebDev. The Meetup takes place every second Tuesday every Month and i’ve met some old colleagues there.

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Weblate and i18next json files

There’s a bug report on github about JSON format breaks i18next files due to automatic restructuring. Actually it flattens your i18next json file and makes it unusable for further usage.

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Weblate with GitLab as OAuth provider

Weblate is built on Django and you can use a lot of authentication plugins. After my contribution to django-allauth it’s very easy to integrate GitLab’s authentication provider to Django. Since Weblate builds on top of django-social-auth i could not use django-allauth plugin to authenticate.

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Set $JAVA_HOME to latest java on OSX

First you may want to know which java versions you have installed, Use /usr/libexec/java_home -V to get a short overview:

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Change umask in docker containers

You’re mounting volumes and running into permission issues while accessing volume from different users or other containers.

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Connect devpi to your docker container

You’re running pip install, buildout or your automated tests within a docker container and after running it multiple times you’ve become tired of waiting for it to finally complete? Then it’s time to connect a devpi server.

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Private docker-registry within docker

Sometimes you need your own docker-registry to just try out things or to avoid downloading stuff again and again from the internet. I tried to build a docker-compose recipe to setup my own private registry.

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Maintaining manual gitlab installation with ansible

A long time ago we started using GitLab. It was a greate step forward and definitly the right decision to switch from SVN to a distributed version control system. If you want to try GitLab you should definitly install it using GitLab Omnibus distribution.

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