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3 years ago
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Monitoring Kubernetes InitContainers with Prometheus

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Kubernetes InitContainers are a neat way to run arbitrary code before your container starts. It ensures that certain pre-conditions are met before your app is up and running. For example it allows you to: - …


3 years ago
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6 ways to speed up your CI

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Waiting for CI to finish slows down development and can be extremely annoying, especially when CI fails and you have to run it again. Let's take a look into approaches on how to speed up …


3 years ago
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Recipes when building a headless CMS with Wagtail's API

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Recently I built a headless CMS using Wagtail's API as a backend with NextJS/React/Redux as a frontend. Building the API I ran into some small issues with Image URL data, the API representation of snippets …


3 years ago
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Creating Group Webhooks with Templates for Gitlab CI

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Gitlab stores a vast majority of their functionality into their paid packages. Group webhooks is one of them and if your using a group runner, the group webhook becomes sought after. This is easily achievable …


3 years ago
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Kickstarting Infrastructure for Django Applications with Terraform

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When creating Django applications or using cookiecutters as Django Cookiecutter you will have by default a number of dependencies that will be needed to be created as a S3 bucket, a Postgres Database and a …


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Creating templates for Gitlab CI Jobs

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Writing Gitlab CI templates becomes repetitive when you have similar applications running the same jobs. If a change to a job is needed it will be most likely needed to do the same change in …