Autoscaling build servers with Gitlab CI
I’ve been using Gitlab CI for a while now and until certain point it worked really well. We had three build servers (GitLab runners) in the beginning, …
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I’ve been using Gitlab CI for a while now and until certain point it worked really well. We had three build servers (GitLab runners) in the beginning, …
Application deployment strategies are really evolving fast. While containerized applications still look hot, there’s something even more interesting happening. What if instead of dealing with application …
Last month we finally finished migration from our previous CI/CD system to GitLab CE and that’s something that makes me extremely happy. It’s just so much …
I’ve been running two WordPress blogs for some time and my biggest regret is that they are not running in Docker containers. If I did …
Kubernetes (or K8s) is another tool for orchestrating containerized apps in a cluster. It’s job is to find the right place for a container, fulfill its desired …
Somehow I missed the news that starting from version 1.12 Docker containers support health checks. Such checks don’t just test if container itself is running, but …
Imagine you configured your new shiny Docker cluster and now ready to fill it with dockerized applications. How exactly are you going to do that? Not …
Docker is cool. It is a great tool to pack your application into set of containers, throw them into the host and they’ll just work. However, …
Last two articles about Consul service discovery involved one simple but extremely boring manual task: creating and configuring a cluster. In fact, I had to …
In previous post we created a small Consul cluster which kept track of 4 services in it: two web services and two db‘s. However, we didn’t …