In this post I want to discuss about a feature not very known by many users of Gitlab. Since version 13.5 Gitlab has available the generic package registry, which is a way to upload "generic packages" to Gitlab. Build Storage Dilemma Before getting into the package registry subject, there is a very important thing to … Continue reading LabVIEW and Gitlab Package Registry
Category: Productivity
Licensing LabVIEW with Docker Images
Recently there has been a lot of questioning concerning the licensing of the LabVIEW inside container images, mainly after one of my posts about using LabVIEW with Docker. In this post, I am going to discuss one of the methods that I used successfully for a long time, and without any problems, I mean, only … Continue reading Licensing LabVIEW with Docker Images
Deploy your project in Gitlab CI
As a continuation of my series for "Automating your Versioning", I found valid to include a deploy stage in the series after the "release post". Below I am posting the links for the complete series, if you want read it all: Automate Your Versioning (Part 1)Automate Your Versioning (Part 2)Automate Your Versioning (Part 3)Release Automation … Continue reading Deploy your project in Gitlab CI
Automating your versioning (part 1)
Hey everyone. As promised, I am writing this new series on how to automate your releases/versioning using a git based source code control management. To achieve this I believe I might write two or three blog posts, let's see how it goes. I started from the end showing a release automation process, but there are … Continue reading Automating your versioning (part 1)
Gitlab Runner and LabVIEW-CLI
Usually I've been trying to run all my testing pipeline using docker images (docker image repo). Mainly because it is a very clean and nice way to run reproducible tests, as each container has a limited life cycle and gets destroyed after a job. Last week (for some reason that I am still trying to … Continue reading Gitlab Runner and LabVIEW-CLI
Release Automation with Gitlab CI
Hey everyone, I am back. I am having some time to write in the Carnaval Holidays. This time I will talk about a feature in Gitlab that is not explored in many projects, mayb because it is not part of the git itself, but it has been a way to describe the tags and attach … Continue reading Release Automation with Gitlab CI
Project Templates Script
Following a previous post that I did about standardization of projects in LabVIEW, I decided to create a script for doing this automatically using the given template. My inspiration was a post in Sam's Blog about automating this task with a script (special thanks). I did a few modifications to adapt my workflow here such … Continue reading Project Templates Script
IDE Setup and Backup Tool
This post is about productivity tools and setting up your IDE is definitely one of the most important things in programming (very tedious as well). An old project After two months working at home, I decided that my desktop computer needed a fresh installation. I've realized that after a couple of years using the computer, … Continue reading IDE Setup and Backup Tool