https://juliusgamanyi.com/Julius Gamanyi's website. 2024-09-05T11:21:42+02:00 Julius Gamanyi https://juliusgamanyi.com/ Jekyll © 2024 Julius Gamanyi https://juliusgamanyi.com/assets/img/favicons/favicon.ico https://juliusgamanyi.com/assets/img/favicons/favicon-96x96.png 2023-08-26T13:40:00+02:00 2023-08-26T13:40:00+02:00 https://juliusgamanyi.com/posts/troubleshoot-selfhosted-gitlab-root-user-missing/ julius

I’ve been going through a a couple of projects from Predrag Mijatovic’s realistic and useful course on devops. Once in a while, I bump into some issues - many have the tools are changing over time. On the section of installing and setting up GitLab (on a VPS), I ran into a couple of problems. These are the versions I’m using: ------------------------------------------------------------------...

2023-02-28T21:17:30+01:00 2023-03-11T10:01:30+01:00 https://juliusgamanyi.com/posts/setup-gitlfs-with-nexus-as-backend/ julius

Sometimes I need to keep binaries that I’ll later use during an installation. I’d like to keep these in a git repo. But their size and “binary format” makes them unsuited for a git repo. Thanks to Git LFS (Large File Storage), I can keep them in git while keeping their sizes small because they’ll be stored in Nexus Repo Manager as Git LFS repositories. From the perspective of using them, say, ...

2023-02-18T10:46:41+01:00 2023-02-18T10:46:41+01:00 https://juliusgamanyi.com/posts/moving-from-wordpress.com-to-jekyll-on-netlify/ julius

This is a guide that I wish I had. Having decided to migrate from wordpress.com, what steps should I follow move a webiste/blog like mine to Jekyll while preserving things I’ve found useful, such as SEO, canonical Urls, and analytics? What made me want to switch were the feature of the Chirpy Jekyll theme. All are appealing to me, especially, the table of contents. What made me want to switch ...

2022-12-05T20:57:21+01:00 2023-02-18T13:23:33+01:00 https://juliusgamanyi.com/2022/12/05/weeknote-week-48-2022/ julius

As the year’s end draws near, I’ve been considering how to improve as a Scrum Master. That’s another hat that I wear at work – a hat I’ve taken on since Q2 of this year. My initial focus was to improve how I facilitate sessions I considered crucial: the retrospective and establishing a Working Agreement. Even though the underlying principle is simple – helping groups become more effective – I...

2022-07-19T20:11:05+02:00 2023-02-02T08:36:07+01:00 https://juliusgamanyi.com/2022/07/19/use-packer-to-automate-setting-up-tooling-for-local-dev-machine/ julius

TL;DR: in which I use HashiCorp’s Packer to automate installing and configuring many developer tools for my local dev environment on Windows. And detailing it on GitHub. Why? My laptop frequently changes: either it breaks and after its repaired, I need to reinstall the tooling I need for software development. Or after X years, it has to be replaced (due to company policy). Why not have an aut...