I always asked myself how to terminate a Powershell script or session, each time I needed to do some tests by myself and also searched on Google. But I could never remember it. So I would like to take this post to note it down, the next time I need to terminate, just need to come back to here.
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.
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.
Gitlab-CE default installation goes with HTTPS disable. We need to generate a SSL certificate, and bind it to the HTTPS of Gitlab-CE.
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.
A recent project made me to use the Windows scheduled task to execute periodically some python scripts. After the project, I find using Powershell to manage the Windows scheduled task is not so straightforward, that's why I opened this post to share my experience on some common usage, and hope this can save your time if you also need to use it.
A recent working experience needed me to write doc on Atlassian Confluance documentation product. I will show you how to convert your markdown doc to Confluance version.
If you want to create some tables from a python list, you can use the tabulate module, it can generate the table easily in text mode and in many formats, than you can past it into markdown, wiki files or add the print version to your python CLI in order to give a beautiful output to the CLI users.
pyVmomi eventManager's QueryEvents() method returns by default only the last 1000 events occurred on the vCenter. I will show you how to use another method CreateCollectorForEvents() to create an EventHistoryCollector object and then we use this object to collect all the events in a given time range by using its method ReadNextEvents().
As a Windows DevOps, I often use Powershell and Python, Powershell is installed by Windows out of box, but this is not for Python. And for my working environment, I don't have the administrator privileges on some servers. I will show you in this post how to rapidly deploy Python on Windows as a standard user by using Powershell with Nuget.