GitLab has an extensive API which allows managing its internal configuration such as users, groups and projects. The official GitLab Terraform provider builds on top of this API. It assumed here that the Terraform controller (e.g. your laptop) is able to reach your GitLab instance's TCP port 443 - if it can't there's no way […]
Integrating Keycloak with Gitlab SAML makes it easier to manage users in an organization from a central point. You could manage separate accounts on Gitlab, but for us it makes sense to utilize Keycloak as we are already using it for other applications. The first step is to create a Gitlab SAML client in the […]
In the previous posts of this series I discussed the control repository and r10k. The last component in fattening the workflow is Git provider such as GitLab, GitHub or Bitbucket. Nowadays all of them are reasonable choices for storing private Git modules, which Puppet control repositories and site-specific modules tend to be. One of the […]
In the previous post I discussed the control repository structure. In this post I'll talk about r10k. That tool is used for deploying control repository branches into matching Puppet environments on the Puppet server. Installing r10k is very straightforward with the bundled gem: After this you'll need a settings file for r10k, /etc/puppetlabs/r10k/r10k.yaml: Several requirements […]
