Article
Audit GitLab CI/CD Drift with PowerShell
A practical PowerShell workflow for inventorying GitLab projects, collecting only CI-relevant files and identifying copied pipeline drift.
Topic
CI/CD
10 matching entries across Articles, TIL and Projects.
Articles
Long-form writing tagged CI/CD.
Article
Verified Backports Across GitLab Repos
How I turned successful sandbox pipelines into narrow, reviewable GitLab merge requests without allowing automation to rewrite source repositories blindly.
Article
A Safe GitLab CI Sandbox for Repo Changes
How to mirror GitLab repositories into an isolated group, preserve release history and prevent test pipelines from affecting production.
Article
Versioned GitLab CI/CD Components
A practical migration path from repository-owned pipeline copies to versioned GitLab CI/CD components with controlled inputs and upgrades.
Article
How I Standardised CI/CD Across 37 GitLab Repos
How one broken release job became a repeatable audit, sandbox, verification and backport workflow for a mixed GitLab repository estate.
Article
Lessons from a First Container Deployment
From WSL2 and container health checks to DNS caching and deployment tooling, the practical lessons I learned taking a simple application from source code to a running service.
Article
From Manual Container Deployment to GitLab CI/CD
A practical approach to container CI/CD: prove the build, registry and deployment path manually, then automate the same operations with GitLab.
Today I Learned
Short notes and fixes tagged CI/CD.
Today I learned
Why I Tag Container Images With the Commit SHA
Using the Git commit SHA as a container image tag creates a direct, immutable link between source code, pipeline and deployed artifact.
Today I learned
Deploy Manually Before Automating CI/CD
When learning a new platform, proving the deployment manually first turns CI/CD into automation of a known-good process.
Projects
Projects and implementation patterns tagged CI/CD.
ProjectComplete
Learning Container Deployment and GitLab CI/CD
An end-to-end learning project covering a minimal Node.js service, containerisation, local testing, registry publishing, managed deployment and GitLab CI/CD automation.