Recently in a Gitlab-CI pipeline I needed to dynamically include several variables that lived inside a yaml-file. The file that needed to be included was defined as a CICD-variable coming from an external API-call that triggered the CI-pipeline.

The file were called after version-numbers, e.g …

In a current project I’m templating files using Jinja2 with the help of the jinja2-cli. Having used (and taught )Ansible for years I’m quite familar with Jinja2 so this was a natural choice.

The jinja2-cli can receive variables to template by different means. One way is by loading …

I recently created repositories in a new Artifactory instance. This was a testing instance and since I dind’t work with Artifactory much before this, I created them in the web-frontend by hand.

I then wanted to get them as code so I could recreate them in the production Artifactory …

In my last TIL I talked about how to set additional security headers for Gitlab. But I also had to do this for other applications I was supporting, where it was more straight-forward to do it (meaning: with code).

I needed to set the access-control-allow-origin header in the other applications …

Recently, I had to configure some security headers in GitLab. GitLab uses Nginx as its web server, and it allows for easy configuration changes for some settings. For instance, enabling HTTP to HTTPS redirection can be done simply by setting nginx['redirect_http_to_https'] = true in the gitlab.rb configuration file.

However …