Two bugs that taught me the rules
Two CI and infrastructure bugs with one shape: a GitLab job with no rules block skips merge requests, and an import block runs only once.
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cicd
Reusable GitLab CI/CD components I include rather than copy across my projects, so the pipeline lives in one place instead of drifting copy-paste in every repo.
Reviewed, then applied
Closing the plan-versus-apply gap in infrastructure CI by applying the saved plan artifact rather than quietly re-planning at apply time.
CI you include, not copy
Copied .gitlab-ci.yml files drift out of sync. How GitLab CI/CD Components let a repo include and version-pin a shared pipeline instead.
One image for the whole toolchain
Baking OpenTofu, tflint and trivy into a single version-pinned CI image, and publishing the scanned tarball with crane to avoid a kaniko rebuild.
A 403 you can't fix in IAM
A GitLab to AWS OIDC trust policy kept returning 403, and no IAM change fixed it: the policy matched a claim GitLab never actually asserts.
No access keys in CI
Replacing long-lived AWS access keys in CI with OIDC federation, so the pipeline mints a short-lived token instead of holding a secret.
OpenSSF Scorecard graded my supply chain
Running OpenSSF Scorecard on a Go project flagged mutable action tags, over-broad workflow token permissions, and a missing maintenance signal.
