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Architectural cross-section of an automated conveyor gallery — commit hatch, build-and-test station, release bin — with a rail-mounted runner gantry above and one figure observing

December 2025

CI/CD runners on GitLab CE: a small win worth celebrating

devops cicd gitlab automation

I stood up my own GitLab CE runners and automated deployments without leaning on an off the shelf service.

Architectural cross-section of two isolated chambers — git vault and runner cell — under one armoured shell with a single traefik gateway on top handling SSL termination

January 2026

Self-Hosted GitLab CI/CD: Building My Own Deployment Platform

devops cicd gitlab troubleshooting platform-engineering automation traefik

How I set up GitLab CE with automated pipelines on my self-hosted platform, and what I learned the hard way about SSL termination, reverse proxies, and infrastructure design.

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