Netflix dürfte für die meisten als Streaming-Dienstleister bekannt sein. Viele Entwickler erfreuen sich an den Open-Source Werkzeugen wie Eureka für Service-Discovery und Hystrix für Resilience. Dementsprechend gilt Netflix auch als Pionier rund um die Themen Microservices und Betrieb. Mit Hilfe von Spring Cloud Netflix ist es möglich durch wenige…
Read moreSSH keys are a very convenient and secure way to authenticate with Git servers such as GitHub. I used to use a single SSH key for the few private repositories I had, but in the meantime I have accumulated quite a number of SSH keys. Having different SSH keys for different purposes (e.g. personal keys and keys used for client work) makes it simpler for me to organize and rotate keys.
Read moreCloud Foundry has an extremly high release velocity with new versions being available multiple times every week for a usual deployment. It is important for operators to deploy these releases in a timely manner in order to keep up with security patches and feature improvements. Commonly, there is not only one Cloud Foundry deployment…
Read moreContainerization simplifies IT operations and nearly all standard software can be deployed in a container environment. Until today, I have operated GitLab as an omnibus installation. While Omnibus already greatly simplifies the deployment experience, there still needs to be done and configured a lot to run GitLab. Before GitLab supported Let’s Encrypt that even meant taking care of certificate renewal and making sure certificate configurations don’t break during upgrades.
As I intend to run more software on the server running GitLab, I wanted to setup a reverse proxy that distributes traffic accordingly. With Traefik being a fresh and small cloud native edge router I decided to migrate the Omnibus GitLab installation to a Docker deployment behind the Traefik proxy.
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