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 CI
GitLab CI/CD pipelines - writing .gitlab-ci.yml, caching, Docker images, SAST scanning and deployment jobs.
There are 13 posts in the GitLab CI category.
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Running Playwright in Gitlab CI 9th May 2025
Running Playwright in Gitlab CI
A delve into a version mismatch issue when running Playwright tests in GitLab CI.
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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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Build different images with multi-stage Docker builds 6th August 2023
Build different images with multi-stage Docker builds
Using multi-stage Docker builds you can create incremental images allowing you to keep the ones you need small
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Install private composer packages with CI and Deployer 3rd August 2023
Install private composer packages with CI and Deployer
Using environment variables you can install private composer packages in Gitlab CI and pass them through to Deployer
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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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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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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