docker#

Dockerfile with secrets

The most secure way to use secrets in a Dockerfile is to use the --secret flag in the docker build command. This way, the secret is not stored in the image, and it is not visible in the Dockerfile.

A common use case in Python world is to install packages from a private PyPI repository in a Dockerfile. Suppose during the CICD pipeline, there's an environment variable called PIP_INDEX_URL where holds this private PyPI credentials.

Check the official Build secrets doc.

Using Databricks Connect inside a container

Migrate Gitlab in docker

This post will walk you through the steps to migrate Gitlab from one docker container to another. The steps need you to know how to install a new Gitlab container and how to backup and restore Gitlab container, because the migration is just a restoration of a backup to another container.

Update Gitlab in docker

Gitlab has several methods to update to newer version depending on the type of the original installation and the Gitlab version. This post will show you the way for docker version of Gitlab, which is the simplest among others.

Backup and restore Gitlab in docker

Gitlab hosts everything about the code including the docs and the pipeline data, etc. It's crucial to back it up. You can also use restore to migrate the Gitlab to another server. This post will show you how to backup and restore the Gitlab-CE docker version.

Install Gitlab-CE in Docker on Ubuntu

Gitlab-CE (Community Edition) is a completely free and powerful web-based Git-repository manager with wiki, issue-tracking and CI/CD pipeline features, using an open-source license, developed by GitLab Inc. There're already many much better docs on the net, I've never worked with Docker and Linux before, so I wrote this post to save my way to install the Gitlab docker version on Ubuntu, the post is more or less for personal purpose.