#random - February 2021

Hey there! I'm looking for an opensource project I found some months before but i can't remember how its called now. It is a simple web shortcuts dashboard with links bound to icons where you can add all your ops tools to be accessible with one click (prom, grafana, k8s dashboard, jaeger etc..)

Say I had a graphql api that some customers wished was a REST API. Is there any proxy / tooling I could use to just slap rest methods over my Graphql mutations/queries, or would I need to manage that manually?

Curious if anyone's used keycloak before? Any pros/cons/gotchas to look out for? I'll of course spin up the docker container and play around with it, but I'd love any input from this group.

Hey, where can I ask question about Gitlab CI

I currently have a Gitlab CI pipeline which consists of following stages:
1. test <- checks if app works correctly, unit tests, linting etc (from node base image)
2. build <- creates a docker image and tags it
I want to publish my docker image after it is built. Should I create another stage:

3. publish <- sends a docker image to Amazon ECR

I think I should create a next stage to clearly separate functions. But that poses question, how to I transfer docker image from stage 2 to stage 3?
Do i use “docker save” to create artifact and pass it, and “docker load” to load it, or should I push the image in the stage 2 to the Gitlab registry and pull it in the stage 3, so that i can push it again to ECR in the same stage?

Or just avoid creating another stage and publish it in the stage 2 directly to ECR, That seems simplest, but that is not just “build stage” right? It’s build and publish and that kind of seems like an anti-pattern.

oh lolcat. the attack of old software!

we showed the vid to a lawyer in our D&D group the other night and he straight rofled himself out of his chair (over zoom)

was he a cat?

I know there are 3,450 AWS experts in this channel so it may not be a wealth of previously-unknown information to anyone, but this YouTube channel on AWS tutorials is seriously well done and underrated… https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClCB_NDN1-cmbhIEPQcf83A

Really useful for learning about AWS Services when the docs just don’t cut it