We have a set of common pipeline jobs that are shared among different projects in Gitlab. We include them like this:

include:
  - project: 'shared/gitlab/linting'
    ref: master
    file:
      - markdown.yml
      - ansible.yml

When you do this, these included jobs get executed with the runner that is defined in the …

The nginx http_limit_conn module to limit http connections works as advertised. It limits the number of connections an ip-address (or other directives) can make to the nginx.

Also: the Ansible hardening-role for nginx as a default limit of 5 connections (see).

This bit me hard: One website I host makes …

And it is (at least for my instance) 4194304 bytes. That is 4,19 mb. You can easily achieve this by running some Ansible playbooks in diff-mode that unpack many files. :)

Job's log exceeded limit of 4194304 bytes.

Job execution will continue but no more output will be collected.

I wanted to build an executable python script on PyPi, so it can be run like MyPackage instead of python MyPackage.py.

Finding out how to do this with Poetry was hard. Googling for “Python [distribute\|publish] executable” didn’t yield any useful results. I don’t even know how …

In Python if you want to execute something after a for-loop has finished, you can use a else-clause.

This code:

for i in range(5):
    print(i)
else:
    print("Finished")

Prints:

0
1
2
3
4
Finished