Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ci-cd
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Atlassian prepares to abandon on-prem server products
Thanks for your feedback. GitLab team member here.
> We(as in everyone) are in a serious need of a new git server product. Just do git serving, and do it well. Preferably in a way multiple nodes can be run active-active for scaling and reliability. No need for cicd (Jenkins is fine for that, thank you very much).
You can integrate Jenkins into GitLab. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/integration/jenkins.html Suggest considering a migration to GitLab CI/CD in your migration planning, following the updated documentation: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/migration/jenkins.html and more automated imports in https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/09/26/atlassian-server-en...
> Web hooks sending and receiving. For example launch a merge request webhook(to lambda via aws api gateway, or to Jenkins). Receive a webhook as merge request approval when some Jenkins job finishes.
(FYI) https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/webhook... and https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/integrations/webhook...
You can trigger a pipeline from external webhooks using a trigger token, and execute an action against the GitLab REST API. The example for triggering pipelines in https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/triggers/#trigger-a-pipeline can be expanded into more actions, i.e. using the API to create MR approvals or comments.
For Python, I'd recommend looking into python-gitlab and this tutorial blog post: https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/02/01/efficient-devsecops...
> if you create cicd jobs/pipelines there is no way to giving someone an ability to run that pipeline without giving that person ability to push to the repository and submit merge requests. Yes, you can then set it so approval is needed before merge, protecting said pipeline, but why? There has been a ticket on gitlabs own issues page about it for years and it is still not resolved.
Please share the URL :)
When creating a new GitLab project, the default branch is protected by default, and only maintainer roles can push to the default branch. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/protected_branches.h...
A developer role can create non-protected Git branches, merge requests, and as such trigger a pipeline from a merge request. You've mentioned approval rules as a safeguard already - CODEOWNERS can be an additional way to ensure that review workflows are followed. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/codeowners/
You can also use branch protection rules to allow `No one` for push actions, i.e. any branch that matches the pattern, except for `main` or git tag patterns. https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/protected_branches.h...
> Gitlab enterprise has no mode of working that let's you have more than one active server at a time so goodbye horizontal scaling.
Suggest reviewing the reference architectures documentation in https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/reference_architec... to decide whether horizontal scaling is needed for your environment.
For distributed environments, suggest looking into Geo: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/administration/geo/index.html
> You want to scale your cicd worker nodes? They want you to use docker mashine(a deprecated product) instead of writing a Plugin like ec2-fleet for Jenkins.
The current GitLab CI/CD runner architecture involves docker-machine, based on a fork maintained by GitLab. This fork receives security and bug fixes to ensure users and customers can rely on auto-scaling in production. https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/docker-machine#%EF%B8%8F... Please review the support statement in https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/2502 to learn more for how long the fork remains supported.
The new auto-scaling architecture provides a task scheduler, and so-called fleeting plugins. You can review the architecture blueprint in https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/architecture/blueprints/runner_sc... and follow the documentation in https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/runner_autoscale/
If you prefer a timeline, please follow the Docker Machine Replacement Project Plan in https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/6995 For example, the AWS EC2 Fleeting plugin is available in Beta since GitLab 16.5 and scheduled for 16.7 GA, see the epic https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/8856
When using Kubernetes, you can take advantage of the Kubernetes executor to auto-scale pods. https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/executors/kubernetes.html
To optimize the CI/CD infrastructure next to auto-scaling, these tips might be handy, too: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/pipelines/pipeline_efficiency....
> into saas.
Next to GitLab self-managed and SaaS, you can also use GitLab Dedicated, where you get access your own isolated cloud instance. https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2023/08/03/building-gitlab-wit...
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Deploying Serverless GitLab Runners on AWS Fargate with Terraform
The Fargate driver doesn’t support ECS Exec yet. For more info: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/custom-executor-drivers/fargate/-/issues/49
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Custom AMI to speed up docker+machine provisioning?
Their fork is, as one might imagine, open source. You can see what it does against a normal Ubuntu system, for example: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/docker-machine/-/blob/v0.16.2-gitlab.13/libmachine/provision/ubuntu_systemd.go
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Docker for Mac Without Docker Desktop
Gitlab maintains a fork of docker-machine with critical bug fixes that I've been using recently since Docker deprecated it: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/docker-machine
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Listing Docker images from Gitlab's registry
Just look at the project https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ci-cd/codequality/container_registry
lima
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Colima k8s nix setup
You can run a virtual machine (e.g. lima) from inside a nix-shell, exactly as you would do with a regular shell.
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Ask HN: Startup Devs -What's your biggest pain while managing cloud deployments?
for others similarly curious, here's an example of the thing: https://github.com/noop-inc/template-java-spring-boot/blob/m...
they seem to be using the excellent lima <https://github.com/lima-vm/lima#readme> for booting on macOS; I run colima for its containerd and k8s support but strongly recommend both projects $(brew install lima colima)
- macOS 14.4 causes JVM crashes
- Lima launches Linux virtual machines for macOS
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Simulate an Ubuntu-like VM inside macOS
Lima is what I use as well. It's quick and easy to just fire up a VM with default settings, but also very easy to configure with different file sharing options, port forwarding, different linux distributions, etc. (their examples are also pretty good IMO [1]).
In particular I use it to run an amd64 VM, which I need to run a stubborn service for work that doesn't run on arm CPUs.
[1] https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/tree/master/examples
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Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different?
Lima (1) is a project that packages Linux distros for MacOS and executes them via qemu in the backend. Maybe you could solve your problem by launching one of their vms and inspecting the command line it generates. You might find an option you were missing.
(1) https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
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The beginning of my eBPF Journey - Kprobe Adventures with BCC
If you wish to delve into all the configuration possibilities for Lima VM, you can visit this resource.
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UTM – Virtual Machines for iOS and macOS
I'd say Lima and Colima should be enough for most use cases:
https://lima-vm.io/
https://github.com/abiosoft/colima
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Lima: Linux Virtual Machines on macOS
Github: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima
Lima wraps QEMU in a simple CLI, with neat features for container users, such as filesystem sharing and automatic localhost port forwarding, as well as DNS and proxy propagation for enterprise networks. Rancher Desktop wraps Lima with k3s integration and GUI.
Talks: https://github.com/lima-vm/lima/blob/master/docs/talks.md
- FLaNK Stack Weekly for 17 July 2023