The Problem

My family had the dream of going to Disney for my sister in law birthday in April and after coordinating the house, plane tickets, multiple families, and tickets we had a problem. The park tickets were not purchased at the exact same moment and some of the family was not able to reserve their park! How could we fix this . . .

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Generate Personal Access Token for Docker Login

Navigate over to the access token section in your profile.

Scope to api and set your expiration date.

store this key in your favorite password vault as it is not accessible after the generation process

docker login

docker login registry.gitlab.com . . .

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I have been slowly exploring the free tier of gitlab and today wanted to setup a build in the CI job. The following steps are taken to create a build of a static site via jekyll.

Create .gitlab-ci.yml

touch .gitlab-ci.yml 

Edit the file

As with any build script I simply put the steps I ran locally and placed . . .

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I have been experimenting with docker over the years off and on but never took the time to apply it to a real project. Today that was going to change with a quick experiment building up a an nginx image and apply the output of a Jekyll site.

Dockerfile

A Dockerfile is a document that specifies a source image and commands . . .

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I typically write about my various interactions around technology in an effort to learn while forcing myself to share knowledge to other readers. I personally find this approach the best way for me to learn since to share you must be confident on the topic at hand. This post however is a mini self reflection of two turning points in my career . . .

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I recently have been exploring the concept of infrastructure as code and how all the core concepts we use day in day out in our software development life cycle could apply to infrastructure resources. This idea eventually brought me to terraform and how it can be applied to azure resources. I started following along with the Getting started . . .

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The end of last year I attended the first half of the Central Pennsylvania Open Source conference in Lancaster for the first time. I enjoy attending local conferences and I will be sure to attend this in the future as it was filled with interesting topics presented by a group of passionate presenters. I was quite impressed by the student . . .

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