How do you ensure your mobile application does not crash and burn when you need to make breaking changes to your backend code, which may including updating the graphql schema or even REST API endpoints or more? It is easy to achieve on a web…

Kaniko is a pretty popular tool for building container images today as it does not require any kind of privilege or root permission to build containers unlike Docker-in-Docker. Having the ability to build container images without privilege while…

Versioning and releasing an application can be a time-consuming and complex process, especially when it involves tasks like determining the correct version to bump, adding appropriate tags, syncing the version back to different branches, and more…

Ensuring code standards in your code repositories can be tricky, there are a few solutions that you can employ such as using hooks together with a tool like . However, there may be situations where the hooks are not enabled on the engineer's machine…

Journey In almost any project, you'll want to have some form of testing to ensure that the appliance is working correctly. For this case, we're testing that the built api container can start, connect to the database and redis endpoints and execute…

Continuing from part 1 of the setup. Solve GitLab Runner Setup Install Helm Prepare the cluster to connect The following cluster certificate connection type is deprecated and disabled by default in GitLab 15.0. Connecting the cluster to GitLab is not…

This has been on my todo list for a while now for KopiRun. I had been using Azure VMs as GitLab runners, but we were trying to keep them under a certain cost, and unfortunately it was not feasible for us to keep the runners on Azure at the kind of…

Running test stages for repos or NodeJS repos can be really painful if is taking too long to complete. Even though GitLab suggests you to use a cache configuration to cache the vendor folder so you won't have to wait for to complete everytime…