8. Kaeffchen: C++ development (CMake, Windows, CI/CD) and debug stories on ARM
General Agenda Guests: Mario Kleinsasser, Bernhard Rausch, Michael Aigner, Nico Meisenzahl, Michael Friedrich Highlights Chat with weekly topic and news section New languages - maybe start with Rust? CI/CD with C++ and Windows CI/CD runners - how to do it? Windows package scripts for Icinga 2 created by Markus Frosch Windows dev environment documentation written by Michael. Conan package registry How to debug memory corruption on ARM platforms Initial report by Nicolai Buchwitz in November 2018 with no real solution.
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Written by: Michael Friedrich
7. Kaeffchen: Terraform and GitLab Live Demo and DevSecOps Culture Talk
General Agenda Guests: Niclas Mietz, Mario Kleinsasser, Bernhard Rausch, Michael Aigner, Nico Meisenzahl, Marcel Weinberg, Michael Friedrich Highlights Niclas kicked off with a live demo on Managing AWS credentials with Terraform using the GitLab integration (state backend, repository and MR integration). Must watch if you want to start learning! A blog post is coming soon. Bernhard continued our discussion about Ops/DevOps and how our working/thinking changed the past years.
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Written by: Michael Friedrich
Bash script for checking out the master branch of many repositories in a directory
So I already posted this in my blog but as very few people read that :), I thought I’d post it here too.
When dealing with microservices, sometimes I’ve found myself needing to go through all the repositories for a project in a folder and checkout the most recent master so it can be deployed. Again the other day I had to do this so I finally wrote a script to make it go a bit faster.
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Written by: Greg Campion
Policy and Governance for Kubernetes
Before I talk about Policy and Governance for Kubernetes let’s briefly talk about policy and governance in general. In short, it means to provide a set of rules which define a guideline that either can be enforced or audited. So why do we need this? It is important because in a Cloud ecosystem decisions are made decentralized and also taken at a rapid pace. A governance model or policy becomes crucial to keep the entire organization on track.
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Written by: Nico Meisenzahl
6. Kaeffchen Summary
General Agenda
Important: Our next Kaeffchen happens on Wed, July 1st, 16:00 CEST. Next week we are taking a break.
Guests Mario Kleinsasser, Michael Aigner, Philipp Westphalen, Nico Meisenzahl, Anton Dollmaier, Konstantin Wolff, Greg Campion, Michael Friedrich
Highlights Website updates, review app for changes, Handbook first & collaboration and documentation (Static Site editor), Paessler webcast, protecting CI configuration & DevSecOps culture.
Recording Enjoy the session!
Written by: Michael Friedrich
GitLab Flavored Markdown: Mermaid
GitLab Flavored Markdown is a really powerful language. You can easily write text in your GitLab issue or merge request. But there are some features which you maybe don’t know about which can make your experience with GitLab much better.
NOTE: If you want to find out more about GitLab Flavored Markdown, just click on the Markdown link in the bottom left corner of every markdown text field in GitLab or checkout the documentation of GitLab Flavored Markdown.
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Written by: Michael Aigner
Everyone Can Contribute
... you too!
Welcome to our lovely and cosy #everyonecancontribute page!
We’ve found each other in a German coffee chat for talking all things tech, best practices and social.
The name has a story Gitlab says:
GitLab believes in a world where everyone can contribute. Our mission is to change all creative work from read-only to read-write. When everyone can contribute, consumers become contributors and we greatly increase the rate of human progress.
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Written by: Michael Friedrich