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.
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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.
Use Powershell to manage Windows Scheduled Task
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.
Convert markdown or rst to Atlassian Confluance documentation format
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.
Use python tabulate module to create tables
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.
Use pyVmomi EventHistoryCollector to get all the vCenter events
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().
Install Python on Windows with Powershell without administrator privileges
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.
Git untrack submodule from git status
When we have submodules in a git repo, even if we add the submodules' folders into the .gitignore file, these submodules folders are still tracked from the git status output.
Import Python module with sys.path variable when without __init__ file
We're familiar to put a python file inside a folder, and create a __init__.py file under the same folder, then we can easily import the file by import the folder, as the folder is transformed to a python module. But if we don't have the __init__.py, how can we import it?
Converting Python json dict list to csv file in 2 lines of code by pandas
One of the fastest way to convert Python json dict list to csv file with only 2 lines of code by pandas.