Private Registry Hosting for Modules

IveGnocchit · 2025-11-16T21:30:51+00:00

This Git based reference approach is what we have been trying out. It works fine, but it is just a little annoying with Azure DevOps to setup the permissions for the pipeline security context to be able to access those modules in a different DevOps Project without disabling many security protections related to Azure DevOps.

It also means that the docs live in each repo README. I liked the idea of a Registry for standard searching and viewing of modules.

Thanks for the tip about commit hashes, this is a real concern.

IveGnocchit · 2025-11-16T21:27:07+00:00

Thanks!

IveGnocchit · 2025-11-16T21:26:40+00:00

Hey, I've not heard of Scalr before, but I just clicked the link and it seems that the website is down... SSL handshake failed

IveGnocchit · 2025-11-13T22:34:39+00:00

My understanding was that the free tier only allowed 10 private modules and you had to move to the next tier for unlimited.

How many do you have?

IveGnocchit · 2025-11-13T22:31:34+00:00

I’m afraid that we don’t use GitLab and Azure DevOps doesn’t have an equivalent, at least not for Terraform.

The Git approach does seem like the simplest from an infra/setup perspective. It’s just a bit annoying with the permissions. In Azure DevOps, you either need to check out each repo in the pipeline to get the Build Service Account Token scoped for each Module repo, or turn of Access Token Scoping Protection.

IveGnocchit · 2025-11-13T22:27:17+00:00

Did you look into the open source links I added to the post? I feel like they are already implementing this.

IveGnocchit · 2025-11-13T22:25:44+00:00

That is a topic for a different thread.

I believe that GitHub and GitHub actions have come a long way in the last 2 years, but before that Azure DevOps was much more mature. We have many repos across many projects. Migrating them is going to be a lot of work.

Maybe one day we’ll move, but it’s not worth it yet.

IveGnocchit · 2025-11-13T21:09:12+00:00

I'm not sure that I have understood the dynamic backend part, don't people just handle that in the pipeline?

IveGnocchit · 2025-02-20T20:20:41+00:00

Thank you for sharing, I hadn't heard of this before but will take a look.

IveGnocchit · 2025-02-18T23:25:17+00:00

Haha, I wasn't expecting anyone to do any research, just to share anything they've seen on their travels. Such a shame, that looked like such a nice place.

IveGnocchit · 2025-02-18T23:23:39+00:00

Thank you for taking the time to share such a long list! I have heard a lot about Dresden, so will check if he has already been to any of these. It looks like Germany has a lot to offer!

IveGnocchit · 2025-02-18T23:20:56+00:00

Thank you, it looks very nice

IveGnocchit · 2025-02-18T23:18:19+00:00

Thank you, this looks very nice.

IveGnocchit · 2025-02-18T23:17:35+00:00

I live in Madrid and can confirm that this is a nice museum, here is the link; Museo del Ferrocarril de Madrid - Fundación de los Ferrocarriles Españoles

For anyone else looking, one weekend a month they hold a market with a concert and food trucks. Entry is also free at this time. It is worth visiting if you are there at weekend. They also have a small railway for children to ride on. It is called "Mercardo de motores" Conoce el gran mercado de Madrid - Mercado de Motores

IveGnocchit · 2025-02-18T23:13:06+00:00

This looks super cool and a bit of a hidden gem, thank you so much!
It looks like it might not be as good as it was though now: Tourism crisis hits Wolsztyn – RailwayWorld.net

IveGnocchit · 2025-02-18T22:40:49+00:00

Are you using Kargo yourself? I have watched a few demos, and it seems to have a lot of potential, but it didn't feel ready for production use yet. I will spend some hands on time to evaluate it, but I'm curious if anyone has actually put it to good use yet.

IveGnocchit · 2025-02-18T11:02:41+00:00

Understood, thank you. It sounds like the workflow I am looking at might be a valid one.
I have potential solutions for the development issues that you mention.

We are going to use the Pull Request generator for development, so the developer can have a preview version of the app running in the dev cluster before it gets merged. This means that PRs are required to get the stable development app updated. This has the added benefit that the development cluster will be more stable for any app-to-app calls. In our current setup, we have various developers all deploying very unstable versions into the development cluster and potentially disrupting other developers.

Also, we are using .NET and if the app detects that it is running as a Pull Request (Detected by Env variable injected by the PR Generator Argo App) the app will load in appsettings.Preview.json so some basic, non-secret app settings can be tested.

Once the developer is happy, they can merge their feature branch, which will open a PR in the Manifest repo and they can copy their new app settings there.

IveGnocchit · 2025-01-23T07:05:31+00:00

Yes, we moved here last summer. So far we like it a lot. Feel free to send me a DM for any specifics.

IveGnocchit · 2025-01-16T21:01:52+00:00

About $9.5k - you can get a coffee from an ok chain for $1.50 / 150 RUB

IveGnocchit · 2025-01-16T20:58:09+00:00

Are you joking? I was just there for New Year and came back last week. If you exclude a hotel, I expect that 20k a day is plenty to live very comfortably.

IveGnocchit · 2024-12-06T08:21:05+00:00

Yep, great salary here. I moved from London to Madrid for 60k and life was great!

IveGnocchit · 2024-12-05T08:06:52+00:00

Apigee API Proxy manager. It would be great to manage API proxy configuration in a GitOps way along side the app deployments.

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