Blog posts about gitlab

Run Renovate in Self-Hosted GitLab CI

A lightweight recipe for hosting Renovate yourself on GitLab CI so you keep control of credentials, schedules, and runner performance.

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Security Scanning Built Into Your Pipeline: GitLab Ultimate in Practice

SQL injection in the application code, an RSA private key in version control, 5941 vulnerabilities in the base image. These are not hypothetical risks — they are findings from a real pipeline run. In this post, we show how GitLab Ultimate catches all of them automatically, across seven scanner types, without a single third-party tool.

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Upgrading Your GitLab Pipelines: Connecting to AWS via OIDC using id_tokens

In a previous insightful post by a collegue of mine, titled Connect your Gitlab CI/CD pipeline to AWS via OIDC, the author discussed the basics of connecting GitLab Pipelines with AWS using OpenID Connect. Building upon her valuable insights, this post will

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Connect your Gitlab CI/CD pipeline to AWS via OIDC

When building CI/CD Pipelines to automate the process of deploying resources in AWS via Code (IaC - Infrastructure as Code) you need to give your pipeline runner permission to deploy those resources.

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Configure Flux Image Update Automation with your GitLab container registry

In this blog post I'm happy to guide you through the process of setting up the Flux image update automation feature. In our case it will scan a GitLab container registry for new image versions and automatically updates the manifests (Helm chart releases) in your GitLab repository to always reflect the most up to date image tag.

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