Archive for the ‘DevOps’ Category

As a company that deals a lot with GitLab and Kubernetes and helps many customers with these issues, We are often asked about the nature of the connection between GitLab and GitLab CI/CD and Kubernetes, and in particular OpenShift. From ongoing engagement on the subject, we have accumulated quite a bit of knowledge and decided […]

Initially written in January 2022. Last update: April 2023 I’m frequently asked what the differences are between SonarQube versions. From the questions it is clear that the licensing options are not so clear and quite confusing, so I decided to write down the essential points and help make things right. Legend: Core differences What’s in […]

I am often asked about the benefits of GitLab Premium. I recently analyzed all the features in GitLab to quantify and visualize the value of GitLab Premium (in addition to a list of features that can be seen here and in addition to the sorted and detailed spreadsheet we send to our customers). It is […]

Date: January 12, 2023 Time: 6pm – 9pm CET / 9am – 12pm PST Cyber attacks have never been more in the news. From Twitter hacks to identity theft, vulnerabilities are exposing gaps in the application development process. Application security is difficult, especially when security is a separate process from your DevOps workflow. Security has […]

Date: Tuesday, December 13, 2022 Time: 2pm – 5pm CET Join us to learn how GitLab can quickly get you started down your GitOps journey! This workshop will go over how you can quickly get started using the GitLab Agent for Kubernetes starting with an empty project and moving all the way to deploying a […]

Date: Wednesday, September 15th Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm CEST GitLab is a great DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. Join a virtual & live session for a 3-hour virtual hands on workshop (at no charge) to gain a better understanding of how […]

Date: Wednesday, August 31st Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm CEST GitLab is a great DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. Join a virtual & live session for a 3-hour virtual hands on workshop (at no charge), an Introduction to our CI/CD. In this […]

We’ve made a detailed comparison table of Terraform vs env0 (including Terraform self-hosted and Terraform Cloud) so you can quickly see what you have in one you cannot find in the other one (and vice versa). If you want to get the updated table send us an email: iac@almtoolbox.com We support and represent both tools […]

Next week we are hosting the CTO of DBmaestro to discuss different aspects of CI/CD for databases. Webinar is free of charge (space is limited) End-to-end Database CI/CD with Jira, GitLab CI and DBmaestro  We are hosting Yaniv Yehuda, CTO and Co-founder in DBmaestro Company, to discuss how you can utilize Jira, GitLab CI and DBmaestro […]

In this article we explain what is a database dry run and how DBmaestro can help you get the most out of it.   What is “Dry Run” Every DBA knows the concerns when it is time to deploy to production. Will it work? Will it break something? Nobody wants to fix bugs while the […]

Here are two real use cases where we helped our customers to build “Infrastructure as Code” using Terraform. 1. Customer from segment of energy saving and IoT The customer has a web application build using GitLab CI. The customer uses AWS as an infrastructure with Cloud front, S3, Route 53 and external DNS provider. They […]

Last week we hosted John Boero from HashiCorp company, who presented what’s new in Nomad (for about half an hour) and also answered questions asked about the product (for about another half hour). A total of 5 questions were asked and he managed to answer them all! We added the questions at the end of […]

Last week we hosted John Boero from HashiCorp company, who presented what’s new in Terraform and also answered questions asked about the product. A total of 10 questions were asked and he managed to answer them all! We added the questions at the end of this post. We edited the recording and also added subtitles […]

See how new features are distributed among stages and features GitLab 13.9 was released yesterday with dozens of new features. As we initially published a month ago, we released an updated diagram of all features in GitLab separated by stages (Y axis) and editions (Free / Premium / Ultimate). We are often asked about the […]

I am often asked about the benefits of GitLab Premium. I recently analyzed all the features in GitLab to quantify and visualize the value of GitLab Premium (in addition to a long list of features that can be seen here and in addition to the detailed spreadsheet we send to our customers). It is said […]