In this article I will have a look at how to establish dependencies between Ansible collections so that if B has a dependency to C and A has a dependency to B then C will be available without when executing A without explicitly including C as a dependency to A. Motivation When developing Ansible collections… Read More »
In this article I am going to satisfy my curiosity regarding how variables work in Ansible roles.An Ansible role is a set of reusable resources, such as tasks, handlers and templates that can be used from Ansible playbooks. As a software developer, I would perhaps compare roles to subroutines – neither can be used in… Read More »
In this my third GitLab-related article I will show how I set up a CI/CD pipeline in GitLab CE for Maven-based applications that can produce, scan Docker images for release versions of the application. When I set out to create this pipeline, little did I know that I would also need to define a Git… Read More »
In this article I will show how I added a GitLab runner with a Docker executor to my original GitLab CE setup. This type of GitLab runner will allow me to run GitLab jobs in containers created from Docker images. Almost a year ago I wrote an article about running GitLab CE in a Docker… Read More »
I have wanted to set up a Git repository of my own for some time now. Not just for the sake of source code version control, but also for other purposes that I plan to write about on this blog in the future. In this article I will show how to set up a local… Read More »