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Docker Prune via Systemd

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· 3 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

To have the most flexibility for our CI pipelines, we use the Docker runner in our GitLab CI environment. This allows us to easily customize each job in each build pipeline for each of our customers, ensuring they match our specific needs.

Nomad Host Network Configuration

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This blog post was published more than one year ago and might be outdated!
· 3 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

Recently, I encountered an issue with our new Nomad cluster. After adding a Nomad client node via a VPN connection, the node was successfully visible in Nomad and able to run workloads.

However, I experienced a problem with Nomad's built-in service discovery feature, which was unable to retrieve the correct IP address for a deployed service.

Nomad Variable Interpolation

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This blog post was published more than one year ago and might be outdated!
· 3 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

Writing Nomad Job files isn't that hard. Once you understand the basic structure, you can quickly write job files to deploy an application on a Nomad cluster.

Fixing encoding issues with mb_convert_encoding()

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This blog post was published more than one year ago and might be outdated!
· One min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

One of our customers sent me a database dump that contained wrongly encoded characters like "ä" or "ü." Can I fix this on my own, or should I let the customer provide me with a properly encoded database dump?

Clean up GitLab CI Build artifacts

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This blog post was published more than one year ago and might be outdated!
· 2 min read
Stephan Hochdörfer
Head of IT Business Operations

We've been using a self-hosted GitLab instance for our customer projects since the end of 2015. We immediately jumped on GitLab CI when it was first released to replace our old Jenkins infrastructure with a more modern pipeline-as-code approach.