April 17, 2023
GitHub Actions allows the use of containers with different Operating Systems.
Although, it does not mean that everything is seamless when you are using them.
I’ve discovered this the hard way!
Below are my findings and the process I followed to make the GitHub Action pipeline work properly with containers.
It all started with the addition of a new tool in the pipeline, which was not installable on Ubuntu (the GitHub Actions default operating system), due to a packaging issue.
Therefore, I decided to use a Fedora container since I was sure that our toolchain was present and well-maintained in Fedora.
After adding the container definition and changing the toolchain installation command from apt to dnf, the pipeline seemed to be working properly.
After a few days, it was noticed that the pipeline did not fail but was not working.
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March 10, 2023 - Bologna, IT
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May 9, 2018
A couple of months ago, I wrote a blog post about why containerization is not always the answer and I’ve received quite a few comments about it.
This article has the goal to analyze an aspect in favor of containerization which I believe to be true but was not mentioned in the previous post: the time aspect of the phenomenon.
In the ICT sector, we are used to new technologies, or at least we should be.
Speaking of architectures, I still remember when I started in the ICT sector that VMWare had just introduced ESX (not ESXi) and there were two ways of looking at it:
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March 27, 2018
UPDATE: I’ve then written another post to clarify better my point of view on the future of containers.
When I hear people (and usually those people are salespeople) saying that as soon as you put a Container Platform in your company, all your problems go away, I feel bad for the company they are trying to sell it to.
I’ve seen far too many container platforms (as well as many other technologies) fail at customers because they have been sold as this magical problem that makes all your problems go away.
There are many reasons why a container platform could fail in a specific environment. The main reasons in my opinion are:
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January 5, 2018
I found myself multiple times in situations where people were trying to explain to me how much they are (or would like to be) DevOps and how awesome DevOps is and how productive their teams had become since when they merged the Dev team and the Ops team, and they don’t have any team which is not DevOps and application-centric.
I usually stare at them thinking that they have no idea what they are talking about, or they have just outsourced all the non-application-centric side of their IT and have not realized it.
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