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
10. Kaeffchen: From Ansible, Puppet and Zabbix to Log Processing with Loki, Vector and Elastic
General Agenda Guests: Bernhard Rausch, Claudio Künzler, Markus Koller, Niclas Mietz, Nico Meisenzahl, Michael Friedrich Next ☕ chat #11: 2020-07-29 - Agenda Highlights Welcome Claudio Künzler and Markus Koller! Provisioning VMware Ubuntu 20.04 LTS images with Ansible Puppet, Ansible, Zabbix use cases - Bolt? Network Inventory Automation - Twitter thread Monitoring insights from OSMC 2019 - YT playlist Grafana Loki - event & metric format & clients (promtail, fluentd) Vector, fast log processing in Rust Logstash or Elastic ingest nodes Elastic Cloud Enterprise on Premise Elastic Operator on Kubernetes Elastic APM Recording Enjoy the session!
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Written by: Michael Friedrich
9. Kaeffchen: Deep dive into Conan with C++ on Windows and GitLab Package Registry
General Agenda Guests: Michael Aigner, Mario Kleinsasser, Bernhard Rausch, Michael Friedrich Next ☕ chat #10: 2020-07-22 (GitLab 13.2 release day!) - Agenda Highlights Hands on deep dive into Conan with C++ on Windows and GitLab’s package registry by Michael Aigner Conan getting started GitLab Conan Registry Demo Repository Windows Shared runner on GitLab.com and Python tips Quick way to see if a GitLab project is public News & surveys, added at the bottom.
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Written by: Michael Friedrich
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