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 …

I recently wanted to share a code-snippet with a colleague. I decided to use Gitlab Snippets for this. However the snippet was more of some hundred lines of code in a text-file which I didn’t want to simply copy-paste.

Lucky for me I had python-gitlab installed, a Python library …

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 …

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.