In a .gitlab-ci.yml job, if you do not specify a tag for an image, the latest tag is used by default.

The default configuration of the gitlab-runner to pull Docker images is if-not-present, which means the image is only loaded if it is not already present. This in turn …

Often times I find a interesting or useful project on Github that is abandoned and has some issues. Then I hope that someone already forked the repository and continued working on it. To find a fresh fork, I had to go to the Insights-tab in the repository, click on “Forks …

As part of my job I routinely create new Github repositories for my colleagues. One unfortunate side-effect is that I am automatically subscribed to all those repositories and get mails for any new issues, pull requests and so on.

This culminated in hundreds of mails over the weekend when we …

I needed to create multiple Github repositories and grant access to them for different users. After creating the first repository by hand and granting access to it, I had enough of it. There are just too many damn clicks!

So I used the CLI. Github has a nice cli-program called …

Actually I did not learn this today but already some years ago. Sometimes I need to connect to remote servers that have no hosts-file or dns-entry. But I don’t want to remember IP-addresses!

Luckily I do have these servers defined in Ansible’s hosts-file and I could theoretically …