Recently I was shown that in a GitLab-based pipeline I had designed and implemented, the results were presented poorly. Here is an example of how this looked like.

# example output from failing pipeline

Running before_script and script
 $ mkdir -p test-reports
 $ phpcs --version
 PHP_CodeSniffer version 3.5.4 (stable) by Squiz …

Improving Junit-style reporting in PHP CodeSniffer Pipelines is part 1 of Dismantling a Leviathan:

1. Improving Junit-style reporting in PHP CodeSniffer Pipelines

This post is late, but I’m going through my backlog and trying to get some things out, so that’s that. Furthermore it is potentially inaccurate given that I cannot find my notes form the event.

First, I need to apologize. I mistakenly assumed that one of the key …

I left my job at the ICG in March 2018. One of my last tasks there was helping in searching for a successor for my position whom I could hand over my responsibilities with as little worries as possible. I updated the same job posting that had been used to …

If you check out one of the community’s most favourite syncing and file transfer tools, rsync on any day, you will notice it has quite a lot of parameters (rsync --help). Here’s a short explanation of some of them and what they can be used for - taken from …

Please note that this post is intentionally written in past tense to avoid having to rewrite it completely in the future.

This post aims to be a summary of technologies I’ve learned to use during my period at the Institute for Computer Vision and Computer Graphics at TU Graz …

At the sensu-users mailing list someone asked how they could deploy Sensu plugins with Puppet. After giving a short snippet, I was asked for further help whether to implement the snippet as a class or what I would recommend. Therefore I present you: A slightly redacted example of a Sensu …

Example of a Sensu Puppet class is part 2 of Sensu:

1. Sensu widget for Übersicht
2. Example of a Sensu Puppet class

I’ve taken some time today to update my system operations related posts with newer information. This information is based on the usage and issues that we faced and will hopefully prevent others from stumbling into the same problems should they choose to follow my guidance.

• Using Continuous Integration for …

Initially I was on the look for an alternative to Geektool for macOS that would not crash if I was to run an interactive script like iftop. When I saw that StatusCake report widget by Colin O’Brien for an HTML based Geektool alternative called Übersicht and saw that it …

Sensu widget for Übersicht is part 1 of Sensu:

1. Sensu widget for Übersicht
2. Example of a Sensu Puppet class

I’ve already written once before that I like working with GitLab’s Continuous Integration (CI) technology. I’ve now had the chance to set up a project for one of our research teams using GitLab CI and it’s been a true success.

• This post was updated once (2016-08-28 …

The software we use at ICG for virtualizing servers is Xen. That’s fine because it has not made my life unnecessarily hard yet. There are however, some things that could be done better - especially while handling things with puppet.

• This post was updated once (2016-08-28)

How it used to …