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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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.
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.
Why go-tool-base left GitHub for GitLab
An accidental major version bump was the last straw after months of unreliability. Why a Go framework moved off GitHub, and what moved with it.
