#random (2024-07)

Europe is a pretty big place. But yeah, of all the continents, it’s a pretty good one to be on. Have any place in particular?

I mean, if you’re going to Valencia or Palermo or Cyprus, then yes, I guess… Europe is a big place

Probably won’t be very awesome in Bergen. I mean, I’m wearing a sweater and raincoat today… It’s July.

a dog barked at me in Bergen because I wasn’t holding an umbrella

not good for Plumi

Easy path to not being “GPU poor”

At the moment I’m trying to get it working locally in a k3s cluster. Looks like the issue might be that I’m not running it with https locally or using a localhost domain.

https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/issues/30977#issuecomment-2208679081

@Jeremy G (Cloud Posse) @Andriy Knysh (Cloud Posse)

Sorry, I haven’t dealt with Keycloak since version 9 or 10. It looks like you found the right issue, which is that you need HTTPS enabled. You can use cert-manager to get free TLS certificates from LetsEncrypt.

wow I also tried tinkerbell before, it is an interesting project, yeah it is hard to work with. Canonical has a similar project, https://maas.io

can you share more details about your environment? quite different solutions for different environments, is it IoT? if not, you may just need network installation process

Hey @Hao Wang, It is not IOT provisioning, just plain server provisioning in a DC

ok, believe MAAS can help in a DC, easy to use

Are you planning to self host or use their SAAS version? What is your VCS provider currently? It might depend a lot on several factors like community support, ease of use, maintainability, reliability, etc

planning to self-host on AWS EC2 and main goal is to automate the code review process and minimize the errors by adding tests in pipelines

Where is your source code kept today?

@Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) there are multiple projects, for most projects source code is on bitbucket and for some its on github

Honestly, I don’t recommend to anyone to self-host CI/CD. My professional recommendation would be to consolidate on GitHub and adopt GitHub Actions.

Then when you need to reduce costs of runners, consider self-hosting or using something like runs-on.com

Further more, GitHub Actions are “free” (no platform charges from github) to self host. But I advise against self-hosting for as long as possible. Get comfortable with CI/CD first, then scale second.

@haroon ejaz If your code is on Bitbucket, consider using Bitbucket Pipelines. Its much like GitHub Actions in the fact that its a service that runs alongside your repo code. The configuration is pretty easy and the features are great for getting started with CI/CD.

While the service is free, it tops out at around 50 build minutes per month. Premium plans are not too much and probably less than what it would cost to run an idle EC2 instance (in addition to the time to support).

Like others have said, if you can get away with using a hosted solution, go that route if at all possible.

If you must host, don’t use Go CD as its unmaintained (since 2023 and for the forseeable future).

Jenkins has wide support but it can be a bear to host at scale so I would take that off the list.

Of the others remaining, i don’t have any experience with drone or concourse and would steer you towards GitLab based on its features and community support. GitLab also has a SaaS solution so you can start with their service and then move into your own server down the road if you find it will be cheaper or easier to manage.

Good luck! Let us know how your plan works out.

Ask what you and your developers know and have used in the past. Using a tool you know nearly always beats the most recommended. Secondly, don’t overthink and complicate the decision. Plan for what works best for you know, and keep using it until it’s a pain point, then evaluate over what you like and don’t like for the next iteration.