Ruby gem version dependency hell (gettext 3.3.0)

$ /bin/bundle install –gemfile=ci/Gemfile Gem::InstallError: gettext requires Ruby version >= 2.5.0. An error occurred while installing gettext (3.3.0), and Bundler cannot continue. Make sure that `gem install gettext -v ‘3.3.0’` succeeds before bundling. TL;DR, this works – there’s another option which might work, see below, but I can’t be bothered to try. This is two […]

fun with ruby in containers

This is related to the various posts tagged gitlab-runner. I got puppet linting, syntax checking etc. is working via the GitLab runner shell executor, and the next step was to move it into containers. There be dragons, and they didn’t google very well, so here goes. I’m using a Red Hat UBI Ruby 2.5 container […]

gitlab ci for puppet control-repo – a test suite

There’s lots of content already out there about puppet CI testing; this is what I initially came up with using GitLab CI, and with various other improvements such blogged about previously in posts tagged gitlab-runner such as: Separate rake files. A lot of examples I found had very long complicated rake files to define different […]

gitlab runners and ci – getting started

intro Before trying to use GitLab runner (shell) in anger, I wanted to peek under the hood – it’ll make things easier later. I’ll stash more information here if it looks useful. Docs: built in docs at gitlab.example.com/help/ci/quick_start/README https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/ One of a number of posts on GitLab CI, see the gitlab-runner tag. .gitlab-ci.yml This is […]