Using Gitlab integrated CICD for Python project on Windows
Gitlab ships with its own free CICD which works pretty well. This post will give you an example of the CICD file .gitlab-ci.yml for a Python project running on Gitlab Windows runner.
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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 Runner on Windows by Powershell PsRemoting
Gitlab runner can be installed on Windows OS. For people like me who is more familiar with Windows, we would like to use Windows as a Gitlab runner. This post will give you a simplified procedure (winrm PsRemoting full command line) about its installation with some tips and tricks that I haven't seen anywhere on the Internet.
Setup HTTPS for Gitlab
Gitlab-CE default installation goes with HTTPS disable. We need to generate a SSL certificate, and bind it to the HTTPS of Gitlab-CE.
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.