We are going to upgrade fileserver “peck” on Friday June 19th 2026. The plan is to do it early in the morning, but you may experience some issues after the upgrade as well. Rebooting the client computer may solve the problem in that case. Please keep an eye on this page to check whether the upgrade is completed or not. The upgrade was finished, but it took a bit longer than expected. ...
This morning gitlab.science.ru.nl was not working correctly or at all. Finally a reboot of the host fixed all issues.
Since a while we’ve noticed our public gitlab server being targeted from various places on the internet, it looks like a DDOS or it could be a lot of AI agents scraping data. Whatever the reason, it is harming regular users normal way of working. Therefore we have implemented an agressive blocking strategy, which can block large parts of the ip range of the internet for a limited time. To compensate for the problems this causes, we have also implemented a fixed allowlist to prevent known friendly ranges from being blocked in this way. If you are cooperating with groups of people who experience this blocking mechanism, please inform us of ip ranges you would like to have included in the allowlist. ...
On Whit-Sunday, the certificate for some of our S3 buckets expired. After figuring out that the problem we saw was related to the certificate, we fixed the certificate and rebooted the server.
For years now Gitlab has bundled Mattermost as an integrated component for online chats, however this situation is changing, and Mattermost has announced that it is dropping support for single-sign-on (SSO). This is turn makes the integration with Gitlab unusable, thus Gitlab is now pondering dropping support altogether. This is unfortunate timing as we are working on tighter integration between science groups and Mattermost channels. Provisional Plan So what are we going to do about this? For chat, we have been looking at Zulip for a while now. This a stand alone, 100% open source chat server that works just like Mattermost. It’s supports OpenID, so we can hook up to diy for SSO. ...
C&CZ recently installed a GitLab Pages server. With GitLab Pages, you can publish static websites directly from a repository in GitLab. To publish a website with Pages, you can use any static site generator, like Hugo, Harp, Mkdocs, or Hexo. You can also publish any website written directly in plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. More info and documentation in the GitLab Pages documentation
About GitLab “GitLab is an incredibly powerful open source code collaboration platform, git repository manager, issue tracker and code reviewer.” Quoted from the GitLab website Logging in Info ...