What is docker machine?| Vin01’s Blog
GitLab’s Continuos Integration / Delivery (CI/CD) workflow utilizes GitLab Runners which can be registered with the GitLab instance to execute individual CI/CD jobs. Depending on the Runner configuration, the jobs are executed in a different environment. Whereas in the Shell Runner commands are executed directly on the runner host, the Docker Runner spawns a new Docker container for each job. This post describes how to setup a Docker Runner that is able to build and run Docker images with b...| blog.hiebl.cc
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+ tl;dr - During E2E testing I spin up containers of dependencies to run tests against them – the setup I normally use recently stopped working so I fixed it. E2E tests are the most important tests for a project – it doesn’t matter if no endpoints malfunction due to invalid input if no users can checkout or perform crucial functions with good inputs. For past projects, I’ve used containerization (docker) containers in E2E tests in CI to test systems I’ve built as faithfully as possi...| vadosware.io
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+ tl;dr - Automate your deployments without adding a new reconciliation loop (i.e. Flux or ArgoCD), make a limited-permission ServiceAccount, drop your credentials in a GitLab protected variable and set up some CI steps to build your containers (with CI-powered Docker in Docker) and update your deployments. Context DevOps has been growing increasingly important and complicated these days. There’s a wave of new approaches, enthusiasm, companies, and organizations trying to make things to ach...| vadosware.io