Tagged 'gitlab'

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

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

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

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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.

Observing What You've Built: Secrets, Alerting, and Blast Radius

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Scoped CI/CD secrets, Prometheus and Grafana on k3s, and four alert rules routed by audience and urgency: how a self-hosted platform limits blast radius without an SRE team to page.