19. Kaeffchen: GitLab 13.4 and CI Rules Live Learning
General Agenda Guests: Niclas Mietz, Michael Friedrich, Michael Aigner, Claudio Künzler Next ☕ chat #19: 2020-09-30 - Agenda Highlights GitLab 13.4 with CI Secrets in Vault and Kubernetes Agent GitLab CI Rules allow_failure MR conditions MR IncludeIf for .gitconfig files Recording Enjoy the session!
Bookmarks Releases GitLab 13.4 with CI Secrets in Vault and Kubernetes Agent Code coverage in MR diffs ARM64 support for Omnibus Contributor & author badge notes Ansible 2.
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Written by: Michael Friedrich
18. Kaeffchen: Container registries, Helm Charts, CI/CD efficiency, Update Policies
General Agenda Guests: Bernhard Rausch, Niclas Mietz, Michael Friedrich, Mario Kleinsasser Next ☕ chat #19: 2020-09-23 - Agenda Highlights Continued the Docker Hub rate limiting discussion from last week Current state for GitLab.com Mirror repositories with skopeo Events based on new Docker image Helm chart registry deprecation, use Helm Hub. GitLab Helm Charts CI Pipeline Efficiency Monitoring - not the tool, find the problem to solve and use cases.
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17. Kaeffchen: Podcast statistics and Docker Hub rate-limiting
General Agenda Guests: Bernhard Rausch, Niclas Mietz, Michael Aigner, Mario Kleinsasser Next ☕ chat #17: 2020-09-16 - Agenda Highlights Discussion about the Docker Hub rate limiting
Announcement Docker registry mirror manifest pull Check if new DockerHub pricing will affect CI Runners Dragonfly Registry Perkeep What will be the future? Some updates about our podcast from the Anchor.fm stats
https://anchor.fm can be used by everyone for free to distribute a podcast Recording Enjoy the session!
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Written by: Mario Kleinsasser
16. Kaeffchen: Merge Request: To Squash or not to squash
General Agenda Guests: David Schmitt, Bernhard Rausch, Niclas Mietz, Michael Aigner, Nico Meisenzahl, Michael Friedrich, Mario Kleinsasser Next ☕ chat #17: 2020-09-09 - Agenda Highlights CI Pipeline Efficiency Docs: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/40510 New squash and merge options Squash or not to squash? Lose the commit history for later debugging, or keep them intact. Generate changelog from Git Commits / MRs Scaling und feedback - give back to the community. Apple and ARM platform Azure & Terraform deployment problem Recording Enjoy the session!
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14. Kaeffchen (KubeCon Special): Read, analyse, search, share - includes EC2, SSH, CI/CD
General Agenda Guests: Niclas Mietz, Nico Meisenzahl, Michael Friedrich, Mario Kleinsasser, Marcel Weinberg, Michael Aigner Next ☕ chat #15: 2020-08-26 - Agenda - GitLab Commit Kaeffchen - we will watch the keynote together! Highlights How to read, analyse, search, and share experiences with a live forum post, also shared on Twitter Amazon EC2 SSH keys in GitLab CI/CD related to Kubernetes secrets: base64 encoding ftw :) A taste of Austria and Germany: Dragee Keksi for Nico Recording Enjoy the session!
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13. Kaeffchen: Events, community, social, education, how to google correctly, chaos engineering
General Agenda Guests: Niclas Mietz, Carsten Köbke, Michael Friedrich, Michael Aigner, Nico Meisenzahl, Mario Kleinsasser Next ☕ chat #14: 2020-08-19 - Agenda - KubeCon Kaeffchen Highlights KubeCon & Commit talks Socializing on events is missing Hallway tracks and open spaces to meet the community Education tracks Teach others how to get going Use case stories which solved real problems Learn the starting point of a problem solution The “Why” Story Add this to blog posts, docs, etc.
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12. Kaeffchen: Taming the Vector wolve and a LUA transform deep dive
General Agenda Guests: Niclas Mietz, Carsten Köbke, Kevin Honka, Peter Rossbach, Bernhard Rausch, Michael Friedrich, Michael Aigner, Nico Meisenzahl, Greg Campion Next ☕ chat #13: 2020-08-13 - Agenda 22 members, 12 Kaeffchens, and so many ideas :-)
Highlights Niclas tamed the wolve making it a nice live demo Running Vector and thinking about Loki with Tracing We could help improve the Vector docs for Label key-value configuration ❤️ Vector allows to use LUA for transform hooks Change into embedding languages into other languages (Perl, Python, Lua, Rust, WebAssembly, etc.
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#everyonecancontribute Kaeffchen: Archive
Our website and blog came from the first iteration where we started with a Google doc, and then later moved to GitLab projects, issues and this website deployed with pages. This blog post summarizes everything which happened thus far and adds the archive for older Kaeffchens as well. The meeting notes are untouched and provide the raw impressions, typos included.
Everything in this blog post covers our German Kaeffchen. We made the decision to chat in German/Austrian and document the notes in English.
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GitLab Pages with Hugo: Add Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a powerful way to analyse your website usage and unveil bugs and unexpected behaviour. Most often you just want to know how often a specific page is viewed and get some generic metrics.
Setting up your website with GitLab Pages and Hugo is a breeze. Navigate to GitLab.com > New Project > From Template, search for Hugo and get started after the first deployment.
After familiarizing with the structure and creating your first blog post, you can dive into more customizations such as adding Google Analytics.
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Written by: Michael Friedrich
11. Kaeffchen: Deep dive into log processing with Vector, Loki and Grafana in Kubernetes
General Agenda Guests: Niclas Mietz, Bernhard Rausch, Feu Mourek, Michael Aigner, Konstantin Wolff, Michael Friedrich Next ☕ chat #12: 2020-08-05 - Agenda Congratz Niclas for becoming a GitLab hero!
Highlights Niclas started with a Go app explaining plain log messages and the benefits of structured logging Getting started with Vector Docker Insight: Context feature for remote SSH container control Kubernetes deployment with Apache, Loki and Grafana Generating access requests and debugging labels for Vector and why logs are not processed To be continued next week, with Timber too Recording Enjoy the session!
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Written by: Michael Friedrich