A request to storage systems often involves multiple operations, while the lack of integrity among individual operations complicates the management of a storage system. To address that, transactions are used as a container to encapsulate multiple individual operations and facilitate their management.
Data are stored on some physical medium like hard drives or SSDs, but they are not simply placed there arbitrarily. A certain layout is defined by storage systems to organize data in the disk. For example, we need to know where of a disk is available for the data to be stored, and when we need some data where to find it.
Manually renewing certificates every three months is not going to be sustainable. Fortunately, there is the experience shared for automating the certificate renewal under GitLab. The basic idea is to apply the same operation of the manual certificate generation described in the previous article, but via the automation strategy with the GitLab pipeline schedule. Here I recompiled the scripts from the original article to not include any domain specific content, which allows them to be directly applied to any repositories (with domain specific variables defined in the pipeline setting).
The default HTTPS support by GitLab will be unavailable with custom domains. Fortunately, there is the solution to add HTTPS back for free.
While you can edit pages online in GitLab (e.g., through Web IDE, which also allows to preview Markdown pages), a local development environment of Hugo provides the best support of “what you see is what you get”.
Building your own blog website is easy today. With only a few steps, you will be able to create your own blog website which can be visited at https://username.gitlab.io.
Hello! I am a software engineer. I am interested in system programming, through which I gain the chance to learn, understand, and manage the complexity of modern computer systems. I decided to start blogging some of my learning and thinking. I think writing things down forces me to thinking them through for better understanding, which also serves as a memo for future references.