The Best GitLab Backup Tools And Solutions To Ensure GitLab Data Resilience

What will you do if you accidentally lose access to your GitLab repository? Or some of your issues, pull requests, webhooks, or other metadata is gone for a lifetime? One may think that if he keeps all his data in Git and uses GitLab, which is one of the most secure Git hosting services, everything will be fine. 

However, Git isn’t a backup itself, and GitLab as any other service provider is governed by the Shared Responsibility Model, which means that your data is all your responsibility. The service provider is only responsible for its service being ongoing, and its data being secured.

In this blog post, let’s look at different methods and tools to back up GitLab, their pros and cons.

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Exploring the Best Jira Cloud Server Backup Tools for Ensuring Data Protection and Recovery

Jira is a project management and issue-tracking solution that helps teams work together on projects. Created by Atlassian, it offers various tools to help companies organize tasks, communicate effectively, and track project progress. Jira is suitable for software development, IT services, business tasks, and customer support. Its flexibility makes it adaptable to different types of work.

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How to use VMware vSphere automation with PowerCLI – first steps

The scale of a virtualized environment might vary greatly. As a system administrator, you probably know that it’s critical to set it up consistently and automate as many processes as possible – no matter the actual size. 

If you’re using VMware ESX / ESXi hypervisors with vCenter as your management software, you already have a lot of automated options at your disposal to help you keep your infrastructure running smoothly. In this article, we will talk about VMware vSphere PowerCLI, which is an automation tool for Microsoft’s Windows PowerShell command-line tool.

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Running Kubernetes on VMware vSphere

If you work in the IT industry, you’ve probably heard the term “Kubernetes,” which is typically used in association with containers technology. Containers may be really beneficial when it comes to developing apps. Kubernetes was intended to address many of the issues that come with deploying applications, most notably by automating and orchestrating deployments and availability. In this article, we will take a closer look at how Kubernetes works with VMware.

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Intro to the virtualization: types, benefits, and disadvantages you should consider

Virtual machines stormed the IT world, bringing new ways of running IT environments. In a world where the amount of data gathered, transformed, and stored skyrocketed, there sprouted a need for more powerful hardware or optimization of usage of the existing one. And there the VMs are a great solution. In this article, we will discuss the types of virtualization. We will also take a closer look at the benefits and downsides of virtualization and virtualizing your infrastructure. 

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