18th October 2026
GitLab CI's extends overwrites cache lists
Why your template's cache disappears when a job adds its own, and how to fix it with !reference
GitLab
GitLab tips, from self-hosting and backups to merge requests, packages and project management.
There are 21 posts in the GitLab category.
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Migrate your GitLab instance to a new domain 10th October 2025
Migrate your GitLab instance to a new domain
How to move your GitLab instance to a new domain while keeping the infrastructure
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GitlabForm for Gitlab repository automation 4th August 2025
GitlabForm for Gitlab repository automation
Synchronise files & settings across repositories and groups in Gitlab
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Use local filesystem for Gitlab CI cache 7th January 2025
Use local filesystem for Gitlab CI cache
Whether it be a mounted drive or just a local filesystem - how do you store your global runner caches locally?
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Scanning your code with Bearer; a Gitlab compatible SAST 27th March 2024
Scanning your code with Bearer; a Gitlab compatible SAST
Set up Bearer to scan for vulnerabilities in your code, available for use with the free tier
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The UPCOMING.md file in our packages and extensions 13th May 2023
The UPCOMING.md file in our packages and extensions
We keep a file in our package repositories which creates the CHANGELOG with each release
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Post to Slack from Gitlab CI 24th March 2023
Post to Slack from Gitlab CI
Posting a customised message to Slack via a bash script
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Setting up Gitlab Advanced search 16th March 2023
Setting up Gitlab Advanced search
Using Advanced search in Gitlab premium requires an Elasticsearch server setting up
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Migrating Gitlab packages from object store to local 11th March 2023
Migrating Gitlab packages from object store to local
How to migrate your packages from using the remote object store back to using the Gitlab server
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Deploying a Docker image to a remote private registry with Gitlab CI 1st March 2023
Deploying a Docker image to a remote private registry with Gitlab CI
Deploying an image to a remote Docker registry can be achieved with Gitlab CI
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Use MinIO to cache Gitlab assets and leverage distributed runner caching 17th November 2022
Use MinIO to cache Gitlab assets and leverage distributed runner caching
Gitlab can utilise MinIO (S3 replacement) for caching built images, packages, uploads and for runner caches
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Build and push a Docker image to a private registry with Gitlab CI 11th November 2022
Build and push a Docker image to a private registry with Gitlab CI
Gitlab can host your Docker images with the container registry, this blog post walks through building and pushing your image
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Merge request conventions for less cognitive load 22nd September 2022
Merge request conventions for less cognitive load
Adding categories/prefixes to your merge request comments help the author identify and compartmentalise comments and feedback
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Programmatically Commit to Gitlab via Node.js 27th August 2022
Programmatically Commit to Gitlab via Node.js
Committing to a Gitlab repository programmatically, can be achieved with a NPM package and a few lines of Javascript
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How I improved the speed of Docker builds in Gitlab CI 8th June 2022
How I improved the speed of Docker builds in Gitlab CI
I reduced our Gitlab CI powered Docker build by 80% - taking it more than 15 minutes to around 3 minutes to build and push with these steps
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Creating a Docusaurus docker image for consistent rendering of your documentation 30th May 2022
Creating a Docusaurus docker image for consistent rendering of your documentation
Sharing configuration for a documentation framework keeps a lot of noise out of your project repository. This blog explains how we use a Docker image to reduce the friction in writing and displaying documentation
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Using a private Docker registry with Gitlab CI 11th December 2021
Using a private Docker registry with Gitlab CI
You may wish to use your own private registry when building Docker images in a Gitlab CI pipeline - this blog shows how to access your private registry
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Build and release Composer packages using a self-hosted Gitlab 15th September 2021
Build and release Composer packages using a self-hosted Gitlab
When developing with Composer, you may wish to create private packages and host them with Gitlab
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Get your Eleventy Site into the real world using a hosting provider like Netlify or Git pages 19th April 2021
Get your Eleventy Site into the real world using a hosting provider like Netlify or Git pages
There are plenty of ways to get your 11ty site live depending on preferences and skill set, this blog walks through a few of the popular ones including Gitlab pages, Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare pages
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How to migrate your Gitlab instance to a new server 8th March 2021
How to migrate your Gitlab instance to a new server
I recently migrated our Gitlab server install from one server to another. With the help of a few tutorials it was fairly painless, however I thought I would outline the steps here
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Backup Gitlab data locally 12th March 2018
Backup Gitlab data locally
I've recently moved all of my git repositories to Gitlab, this blog post walks through a script I have written to clone all of my repositories locally as a backup.