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Winners of the LibreOffice Template Contest 2020

5. March 2021

It’s with great pleasure that the jury can announce the winners of the LibreOffice Template Contest 2020.

We got over 30 different template submissions and it wasn’t an easy task to narrow the list down to six winners. Thanks to the diverse jury team consisting out of a total of nine people from the community (5), the Document Foundation (2) and Adfinis (2) we came up with a balanced view regarding the three major evaluation criteria (creativity, usefulness and technical expertise) and are happy to announce the winners of this year’s contest!

  • Ahmad Bayhaqi, “Line Impression” template for Impress
  • David W. Snow, “DWS Novel” template for Writer
  • Hervy Qurrotul Ainur Rozi, “ZamZam” template for Impress
  • Benjamin Peng, “Minimalist Resume” template for Writer
  • Ermind Alita, “Bumi Samudra” template for Impress
  • Sven Hielscher, “Style / Feature Preview and Boilerplate” template for Writer

Congratulations to the winners!

Thanks again to everybody who contributed in this contest, we will raffle hoodies, shirts and backpacks among all participants!

We’re still checking with the awesome people from the Document Foundation how and if we can make the templates available to a broad audience. In order to get any template into the upstream LibreOffice installation package, a lot of work needs to be done (especially in terms of internationalization) – one other possibility is to use the LibreOffice Extension functionality and thanks to Heiko Tietze all the sumissions are now available through the extension directory (see at the bottom for the complete list).

Furthermore, we also discussed to blog a bit more about what users should consider regarding templates (e.g. don’t use direct formatting and instead use styles, or work with master slides, etc.). If you’d like to step in and help us with that: feel free to contact me directly.

Thanks again to all the awesome people who made this possible! I hope we can organize a follow-up contest later on this year and will communicate it on the usual channels.

The Adfinis team wishes the whole LibreOffice community all the best and says “THANK YOU!” for making this such a wonderful F/OSS project!

The sumitted templates (winner first, then no particular order):

Note: many templates need additional fonts to shine and look how the designer intended; the fonts are F/OSS and can be found on the usual place (GitHub, Sourceforge, Google Fonts, etc.) or using your prefered search engine. As most fonts are quite big nowadays (some are >1GB) we didn’t bundle them with the documents.

We kindly ask all contributors to register on the extension platform and ask the admin to take over the maintainership of his/her extension.

 

Database Clustering with Galera Cluster and Galera Manager

25. February 2021

Galera is a multimaster MySQL cluster that provides virtually synchronous replication by certifying so called “write-sets”, which ensures that all database transactions are committed on all cluster nodes. The software is developed and maintained by Codership.

This article is a compilation from material targeting the Galera cluster in general, mixed with insights gained in Codership training sessions. We hope it sharpens the readers understanding of the clustering topic for MySQL and its variants such as MariaDB.

The Adfinis team is more than happy to support you, if your organization needs to run highly available MySQL workloads and you’d like to get some helping hands in planning, building and running such a service.

Multimaster Capability

In comparison to traditional leader/follower replication setups, a Galera cluster promises increased availability and the ability to read and write from/to any cluster node. However, replacing a single server database backend with a Galera cluster is not necessarily transparent to the application, thus, cannot always be the recommendation.

Before replacing a traditional database setup with a clustered one, it is crucial to be aware of the changed inter-node isolation levels and limitations in order to estimate the potential impact on workloads. Generally speaking, the isolation and order of transactions will be be affected by the replication protocol. Compared to a response from a single node server, the application might not always get back the expected answer and break. For instance, if results for repeated queries made on separate cluster nodes don’t provide the same results or a read query is performed directly after a write query (read-after-write) and the read query is executed on another node.

Often times, proxies or query routers are installed in front of the cluster direct application traffic to the correct nodes. This mimics the behavior of a single database server. However, these components should be built in a highly available manner as well, which increases the cost and complexity of the entire solution.

Automated failover mechanisms are usually applied sparingly in traditional replication architectures, because data consistency is at risk in split-brain scenarios. Fortunately, these mechanisms are superfluous with Galera cluster due to the multimaster capability. Also, additional cluster nodes can increase the fault tolerance at the node level rapidly. The overall availability at the cluster level depends on the amount of available failure domains, which are mostly limited by the number of datacenters for on-premise deployments.

Galera Manager: Clustering at the Push of a Button

We have seen in the previous discussion above, that failures on cluster level are harder to mitigate with limited resources, especially in locally constrained environments. Luckily, the cloud allows us to distribute workloads across availability zones easily in a cost efficient manner. When nodes are distributed across fault domains, deployments in the cloud can improve the clusters availability from the start, without spending too much thought about resiliency at the cluster level.

Galera Manager is a solution that accelerates the logistics around clusters and nodes on AWS. Additionally, it can be used to monitor existing clusters.

The automatic deployment of Galera nodes using the Galera Manager is primarily tailored to deployments on AWS and is still in the beta phase as of today.

We hope to see support for other deployment targets as well. Having a cloud agnostic deployment tool for Galera would greatly increase platform independence as one could easily proivision a database cluster among different cloud providers and greatly reduce the vendor lock-in of the “database as a service” offerings from major cloud providers.

Because information on deploying Galera clusters on AWS is widely available, this article elaborates on cluster deployments using Linux containers (LXC) and the integration of so called “unamanged” nodes, which is only briefly discussed in the documentation upstream.

Testing the Galera Manager with LXC

If you want to test how the Galera Manager works locally before you do your first deployments in the cloud, we have explained the necessary steps below.

Notes for reproduction: The Ubuntu 18.04 VM on libvirt was allocated 2’048 MB RAM and 2 CPU cores, which was sufficient to launch three LXC based Galera nodes. Also, the installation script does not complete on Ubuntu releases greater than 18.04 (bionic).

The Galera Manager can be installed by invoking the installation script:

root@gm01:~# curl -sO https://galeracluster.com/galera-manager/gm-installer
root@gm01:~# chmod +x gm-installer
root@gm01:~# ./gm-installer install
INFO[0000] OS Detected: Debian / Ubuntu / Linux / bionic / 18.04    
...
The installation log is located at /tmp/gm-installer.log

After the installation of Galera Manager, the base configuration for a new cluster can be defined in the Web UI:

Fig. 1: Create a managed Galera cluster

To deploy the actual nodes as containers, it is recommended to have at least a minimally configured LXD service ready:

root@gm01:~# systemctl start lxd

# Initialize LXD with sane default values for testing purposes
# https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/docs/master/#how-do-i-configure-lxd-storage?
root@gm01:~# lxd init --auto

# Give the Galera Manager daemon (gmd) access to the LXC socket
# https://linuxcontainers.org/lxd/docs/master/security
root@gm01:~# usermod -a -G lxd gmd
root@gm01:~# systemctl restart gmd

The bootstrap script for new Ubuntu nodes assumes that the AppArmor utilities are available in the container. This assumption does not hold true for the default LXC base images which are launched using the Galera Manager. Furthermore, these images don’t include rsync, which will be needed for the state snapshots transfer (SST) between the nodes. Therefore, we should tweak the image slightly before launching the cluster:

# Ubuntu 20.04 (focal) image download from default remote "images:"
root@gm01:~# lxc launch images:ubuntu/focal test
Creating test
Starting test

# Cleanup test image
root@gm01:~# lxc delete -f test

# Show fingerprint of the image
root@gm01:~# lxc image ls -cf --format csv
c3e80efdcd15

# Unpack the rootfs of the image
root@gm01:~# cd /var/lib/lxd/images/
root@gm01:/var/lib/lxd/images# unsquashfs c3e80efdcd15823ef2f372955915f94f65a24a0444e5c32dada6a72ba6e31cd8.rootfs

# Prepare chroot
root@gm01:/var/lib/lxd/images# mount -o bind /dev squashfs-root/dev/
root@gm01:/var/lib/lxd/images# mkdir -p squashfs-root/run/systemd/resolve
root@gm01:/var/lib/lxd/images# mount -o bind /run/systemd/resolve/ squashfs-root/run/systemd/resolve

# Enter the image chroot and install the missing utilities
root@gm01:/var/lib/lxd/images# chroot squashfs-root
root@gm01:/# apt install rsync apparmor
exit

# Cleanup mounts
root@gm01:/var/lib/lxd/images# for m in $(mount | grep squashfs-root | awk {'print $3'}); do umount $m; done

# Create new rootfs image
root@gm01:/var/lib/lxd/images# mksquashfs squashfs-root squashfs-root.rootfs

# Backup original rootfs
root@gm01:/var/lib/lxd/images# mv c3e80efdcd15823ef2f372955915f94f65a24a0444e5c32dada6a72ba6e31cd8.rootfs{,.bck}

# Replace current rootfs of the image with the patched rootfs
root@gm01:/var/lib/lxd/images# mv squashfs-root.rootfs c3e80efdcd15823ef2f372955915f94f65a24a0444e5c32dada6a72ba6e31cd8.rootfs

Admittedly, this process seems esoteric, but unfortunately there exists only a limited selection of base images in the Galera Manager without the option to download from a specific LXC remote. A setting to specify an exact LXC image would greatly simplify this process.

Afterwards, the (Centos or Ubuntu based) LXC container nodes can be added to the cluster in a convenient fashion:

Fig. 2: Automatically deploy LXC container nodes with the Galera Manager

Follow the cluster setup process in the Browser UI or via the Galera Manager log files:

root@gm01:~# tail -f /var/log/gmd/host-*

Fig. 3: Galera LXC node deployment status

Monitoring Unmanaged Nodes with the Galera Manager

Existing clusters can be integrated with the Galera Manager as “unmanaged” nodes. This running mode assumes that the initial configuration and deployment of the node already happened before the node was registered in the Galera Manager. Also, in comparison to the LXC containers from the last section, these types of nodes are not configured automatically (i.e., unmanaged).

But don’t fret. The database administrator training course offered by Codership is designed to equip administrators with everything needed to deploy, configure, join and maintain cluster nodes manually. Feel free to contact us to get more information about the available trainings.

For sake of simplicity, we will simply reuse the suggested MySQL configuration from the previously provisioned LXC containers as a base configuration. Also, we will again install the most “pristine” version of the “Codership” Galera 4 cluster using the original MySQL 8 as the base version.

For the manual setup on unmanaged Ubuntu 18.04 virtual machines, follow the excellent documentation upstream:

root@galera-n:~# cat << EOF > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/codership.list
# Codership Repository (Galera Cluster for MySQL)
# https://galeracluster.com/library/documentation/install-mysql.html
deb https://releases.galeracluster.com/mysql-wsrep-8.0/ubuntu bionic main
deb https://releases.galeracluster.com/galera-4/ubuntu bionic main
EOF

# Receive the repository signing key from the keyserver
apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv BC19DDBA

# Non interactive install of Codership Galera components,
# latest Galera 4 on top of the MySQL 8 base version
export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
apt update && apt-get install galera-4 galera-arbitrator-4 mysql-wsrep-8.0 -y

Disable AppArmor for the MySQL daemon for testing purposes with the unmanaged virtual machines (running their own kernel) as advised in the recommendations upstream:

root@galera-n:~# ln -s /etc/apparmor.d/usr.sbin.mysqld /etc/apparmor.d/disable/
root@galera-n:~# apparmor_parser -R /etc/apparmor.d/disable/usr.sbin.mysqld
root@galera-n:~# systemctl stop mysql.service

Next we are ready to apply some initial Galera configuration to our unmanaged nodes:

root@galera-n:~# cat << EOF >> /etc/mysql/mysql.conf.d/mysqld.cnf
# Listen on all interfaces
bind-address           = "0.0.0.0"

# WSREP Options
wsrep_on               = ON
wsrep_provider         = "/usr/lib/libgalera_smm.so"
wsrep_cluster_name     = "unmanaged-01"
wsrep_node_name        = "$HOSTNAME"
wsrep_cluster_address  = "gcomm://galera01,galera02,galera03"
wsrep_node_address     = "$HOSTNAME"
wsrep_sst_method       = "rsync"
EOF

Note that the above commands on the Galera nodes galera-n are usually run with an infrastructure automation tool of choice, such as Ansible.

To bootsrap the primary component of the unmanaged cluster from any node, run:

root@galera-01:~# mysqld_bootstrap

The remaining nodes can be joined by starting the mysql daemon:

root@galera-n:~# systemctl start mysql.service

To integrate the Ubuntu based cluster VMs into the Galera Manager, simply define a new cluster and add them as “unamanged” nodes through the UI:

Fig. 4: Add unmanaged nodes to the Galera Manager

Finally, the manager presents us with a default dashboard and allows us to add more graphs for certain variables in order to monitor the health of the cluster.

Fig. 5: Monitor unmanaged nodes with Galera Manager

Cluster Operations with Galera 4

We briefly introduced monitoring with Galera Manager above, but there is actually a lot more to it. As we have seen, the manager provides you a perfect overview of important cluster variables. However, in reality you probably need to go far more into details on additional topics regarding backup, cluster recovery, monitoring, logging, performance tuning, write-set cache size calculation, additional wsrep options, different Galera cluster version and more. We’re more than happy to help you with this and bring in the Adfinis expertise. We mange critical infrastructure since more than 20 years and have a team of highly skilled engineers who are happy to assist you in planning, building and running a Galera cluster.

We hope this article was able to provide an overview of some deployment strategies for test-driving Galera clusters with or without Galera Manager (unmanaged nodes). If you are curious to find out more about the latest improvements in the most recent release of Galera, feel free to contact us or head over to the official announcement/changelog for Galera 4 on MySQL 8. Among others, it includes exciting changes regarding:

  • Streaming replication, enhanced support for large transactions
  • Group commit
  • New mysql system tables
  • Synchronization functions for custom logic based on transaction IDs

Lastly we would like to refer again to the high quality video material and documentation freely available on the Codership page.

If you found this material useful, share this post or send us a feedback on info@adfinis.com

What Adfinis can do for you

Adfinis offers managed services for all kind of technologies that run on Linux. Be it on-premise, in the cloud or in a mixed environment. We are interested to hear about your requirements and are eager to find out how we can help you in planning, building and running services for you, so your team can concentrate on the core business of your organization. Contact us now or find out more about our managed services.

If you’d like to make a deep dive into the Galera topic on your own we can also recommend to check the Codership online trainings which are offered as classes via Zoom, led by professional instructors guiding through installation and configuration of the Galera cluster.

Links and References

Link to the training course:
https://galeracluster.com/library/training/courses/index.html

Galera transaction isolation guarantees:
https://galeracluster.com/library/documentation/isolation-levels.html

Migrate to Galera cluster:
https://galeracluster.com/library/training/tutorials/migrate.html

Galera Manager documentation:
https://galeracluster.com/library/documentation/galera-manager.html

Manual Galera cluster installation:
https://galeracluster.com/library/documentation/install-mysql.html

Disable AppArmor for Galera cluster installations:
https://galeracluster.com/library/training/tutorials/galera-installation.html#disabling-apparmor

Galera 4 for MySQL 8 Announcement:
https://galeracluster.com/2020/05/galera-cluster-4-for-mysql-8-is-generally-available/
https://galeracluster.com/library/whats-new.html

Video material and full documentation:
https://galeracluster.com/library/training/videos/index.html
https://galeracluster.com/library/documentation

Unsere Mission & Vision

24. February 2021

Getreu dem Motto: “Branding erfordert Hingabe; Hingabe, sich stetig neu zu erfinden” haben wir uns entschlossen, im Rahmen unseres Rebrandings auch unsere Vision und Mission aufzufrischen. Für einmal bedeutete CI/CD also nicht Continuous Integration und Continuous Delivery, sondern Corporate Identity und Corporate Design. Was hat sich bei der Adfinis  in diesen Gefilden in letzter Zeit getan?

So viel Vorweg: Wir sind immer noch voll und ganz Open Source verschrieben und kämpfen eifrig  dafür, den Vendor Lock-In proprietärer Lösungen zu reduzieren.

 

Corporate Design

Wie schon 2020 kommuniziert, wurde aus der Adfinis SyGroup, neu die Adfinis. So neu ist dieser Name jedoch gar nicht, denn vor der Fusion (2012) gab es sowohl die Adfinis, wie auch die SyGroup. Wieso also wieder “Adfinis”? Ganz einfach: Ein Grossteil unserer Kunden und Partner nannten uns bereits einfach “Adfinis” und zudem erschien uns ein kürzerer Name schlicht handlicher.

Komplett neu ist aber unser Logo, mit dem wir unsere Identität auch visuell ausdrücken und transportieren. Auf den ersten Blick vermag es nur ein “A” für Adfinis zu sein, auf den zweiten oder dritten Blick  lässt sich aber erkennen, dass sich hinter der einfachen Struktur weit mehr Tiefgang verbirgt. Zum einen lässt sich ein offenes Schloss erkennen,  welches  das Aufschliessen des Vendor Lock-Ins symbolisiert und  so die Entfaltung des Potentials unserer Kunden in den Mittelpunkt rückt. Zum anderen verbirgt sich darin  auch Tux, das Maskottchen von Linux, womit wir auch unser Fundament: Linux und Open Source als wichtigen Baustein unserer Identität widerspiegeln.

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Corporate Identity

Auch wenn das neue Design viele unserer Werte impliziert, haben wir mit der neuen Vision und Mission, sowie mit dem neuen Claim unsere Corporate Identity etwas geschärft.

As a company, we shape a world of innovative, sustainable and resilient IT solutions built on trustworthy open source technology to unlock the full potential of our customers.

 

Mit unserer Vision beschreiben wir unser hochgestecktes Ziel; dort wollen wir hin und dafür setzen wir uns täglich ein. Mit dem Einsatz quelloffener und vertrauenswürdiger Technologien erbauen wir eine Welt, von innovativen, nachhaltigen und resilienten IT-Lösungen mit denen unseren Kunden ihr Potential voll ausschöpfen können. Im Mittelpunkt stehen dabei unsere Kunden und das Wissen, dass wir mit Open Source nicht nur zu ihrem Erfolg beitragen, sondern durch unsere Contributions auch die IT-Welt als solche zu etwas Besserem mitgestalten. Cool, oder?

Our mission is to foster Open Source technology, deliver high-quality work, and run mission-critical systems around the clock so our customers can focus on their core business. By working with us, customers are liberated from vendor lock-in and are one step ahead of their competition.

Mit der Mission beschreiben wir unser tägliches Tun. Daran halten wir uns fest, wenn wir kurz die Orientierung verlieren. Höchster Qualitätsanspruch und 24/7 Support zeichnet uns aus, denn nur so können wir versichern, dass unsere Kunden sich auf ihr Kerngeschäft konzentrieren können. Zudem befreien wir sie von Vendor Lock-In und unterstützen sie dabei, ihrer Konkurrenz einen Schritt voraus zu sein – sei es mit Cloud Native Technologien, klassischen IT Lösungen oder durch von uns entwickelter Software.

 

Kurz also – At Adfinis we:

plan innovatively. build sustainably. run resiliently.

 

Claim:

Potential. Unlocked.

 

Wir nehmen unsere Kunden mit auf eine Reise, welche wir mit innovativen Lösungsansätzen planen und so umsetzen, dass sie langfristig und nachhaltig beständig sind. Zu guter Letzt begleiten wir unsere Kunden aber auch noch lange nach der Umsetzung, damit sie für alle zukünftigen Herausforderung mit einer robusten Lösung gewappnet sind. Wir helfen unseren Kunden ihr volles Potential zu entfalten – ihr Potential zu “öffnen”. Metaphorisch – indem wir proprietäre Lösungen mit quelloffenen und nachhaltigen Open Source Lösungen ersetzen. Aber auch wortwörtlich – in dem wir unseren Kunden den ganzen IT-Bereich abnehmen und sie sich wieder auf ihr Kerngeschäft konzentrieren können.

Wenn du noch mehr zu unserem Rebranding, zu unserer Vision, Mission und unserem Claim erfahren willst, dann schau auf unserer Webseite vorbei und folge uns auf Twitter und LinkedIn.

linux.conf.au 2021

1. February 2021

Running since 1999, linux.conf.au is the largest Linux and open source conference in the Asia-Pacific region. The conference provides deeply technical presentations from industry leaders and experts on a wide array of subjects relating to open source projects, data, and open government and community engagement. Of course, Adfinis was part of it! Here are our experiences and takeaways!

 

 

On the software freedom and politics side of things, Cory Doctorow started off linux.conf.au with a talk on software freedom and digital monopolies. He went over some of the history of big monopolies and the politics around protectionism. Many of the large technology companies now innovate through acquisition rather than doing it internally. He discussed how many large companies are building walled gardens where they readily take in data from external sources but make it difficult to escape due to lack of interoperability and access. Large companies use DRM and have influenced its inclusion in law to lock down access to content.

Cory spoke about the overlap between the free software movement with other related movements. He spoke about the need for software freedom, open standards, and interoperability for protecting users, safeguarding privacy, and enabling innovation.

Also on the political side, Paul Gardner-Stephen spoke about the possibility of a Digital Winter, where technology is locked down and used for surveillance, censorship, oppression, and control. Paul is particularly interested in hardware and founded the MEGA65 8-bit open hardware project, and is working on projects which enable Digital Sovereignty.

Michael Hackett spoke about the Cephadm tool which provides Docker and Podman containers to provision and manage a Ceph cluster, as an alternative to Ansible, Salt, and other external tools. Closer to the end of the conference, Tim Serong spoke about some of the challenges he faced with Cephadm and Docker. Tim explained how Docker creates an extra layer of abstraction and the need to understand these multiple layers when debugging issues. He expressed some difficulties adapting his existing workflow with developing and testing Ceph after switching to Cephadm since he couldn’t make changes on the fly. Despite the challenges, Cephadm provides an opportunity to shift some complexity from the sysadmin to the maintainer and is a useful tool for building Ceph clusters with container technology.

der.hans presented some of his tips for managing MySQL, some of which included MySQL snapshot backups, creating a shell environment file to be sourced for multi-cluster systems, using per-table files for backend storage and other useful tips and practices to follow.

Arjen Lentz presenting the setup of his own border router turned out to have a generous Swiss touch since he «decided to order two PC Engines APU 4d4 boards from the awesome Pascal in Switzerland» in order to assemble his border router. The whole setup can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/arjenlentz/routerfoo

A session on Docker, Docker Compose and Docker Swarm was presented by Matthew Cengia which showed some tools which can be used for creating and running Docker clusters. Docker Compose can be very useful for bringing up non-production environments, and Swarm more suitable for production workloads. A Docker Compose description can be deployed to a Swarm which is potentially useful for integrating a development workflow into production releases. Composer and Swarm may offer a more simple path to using Docker containers than Kubernetes, but with fewer features.

Julien Goodwin spoke about a near-miss major outage at Google and some of the take-away points he took from that experience. He spoke about the need for automated sanity checks, manual sanity checks and the need for documentation.

Deb Nicholson from the OSI spoke about the need for sustainable software projects – why in many cases a slower development model will help the community keep up, attract new contributors and keep people from burning out.

Michael Meeks, well known at Adfinis, presented Collabora Online & Mobile. When talking about the history of how Collabora Online has brought LibreOffice technology to mobile devices and web-browsers, a very familiar face showed up on one of the group photos…;-)

Curtis Millar showed a project he worked on to add module and scoped variable functionality to the POSIX shell. He explained some of the limitations, such as performance issues and lack of support in bash. He explained that in most cases the best solution would be to use the more limited POSIX shell without the language features and use other common workarounds such as subshells.

There were a number of FPGA and open hardware projects presented, including Adafruit, Swagbadge, the MEGA65 8-bit computer, RISC-V and OpenPOWER. The open hardware movement is certainly a growing one and worth watching.

All speaker presentations will be uploaded their presentation to YouTube soon.

See you next time!

GitLab und Adfinis sind neu Partner und fördern gemeinsam das DevOps Enablement

31. January 2021

Nach langer Zusammenarbeit wurde die Partnerschaft zwischen Adfinis und GitLab nun offiziell. Die Partnerschaft war eine logische Konsequenz, nicht nur weil Adfinis seit jeher GitLab als DevOps-Plattform einsetzt, sondern auch weil die Mentalität von Collaboration und Open Source beide Unternehmen im Kern verbindet.

GitLab ist die moderne Lösung mit der Entwickler-Teams alle Werkzeuge zur Implementierung von DevOps Workflows aus einem Guss erhalten. Egal ob on-premise, via SaaS oder hybrid – GitLab kann flexibel eingesetzt werden und erfüllt dadurch die meisten Compliance-Anforderungen und Datenschutzrichtlinien. Von der Planung, über die Verwaltung des Codes, bis hin zu den Pipelines zum Testen und Deployen der Builds bringt Gitlab alles mit, was das Entwickler-Herz begehrt. Mit Gitlab setzen Organisationen auf eine sichere Lösung, mit der Teams schneller ans Ziel kommen und dafür sorgen, dass sensitiver Code die IT-Umgebung während des ganzen Lifecycles nie verlässt.

Warum GitLab und Adfinis?

Viele Organisationen sehen sich mit diversen Herausforderungen, welche mit der zunehmenden Digitalisierung einhergehen, konfrontiert. Sie wollen ihre internen Development Prozesse automatisieren, dadurch ihre Time to Market minimieren und auf offene und transparente Tools setzen. Um Kunden mit diesen Anforderungen noch besser unterstützen zu können und ihnen gleichzeitig zu helfen, die Cloud Native Journey mit den richtigen Tools anzutreten, arbeiten GitLab und Adfinis zukünftig noch näher zusammen. So kann das jahrelange Know-How, der weltweite 24/7 Support und die Expertise der Adfinis mit den zahlreichen Möglichkeiten von GitLab kombiniert werden. 

Nicolas Christener, CEO & CTO bei Adfinis, sieht viele Potential  für die gemeinsame Zukunft: “Wir freuen uns auf die Zusammenarbeit mit GitLab und darauf, unsere Kunden dabei zu unterstützen, ihre DevOps-Journey mit dem erstklassigen Service- und Lösungsangebot von Adfinis und GitLab zu beschleunigen.” 

Adfinis setzt selber seit Jahren auf GitLab und ist der ideale Partner, um Unternehmen bei der Planung, der Einführung und dem Betrieb von Gitlab in Ihrer IT-Organisation zu unterstützen.

“GitLab freut sich, eine strategische Beziehung mit Adfinis aufzubauen”, so Michelle Hodges, Vice President of Global Channels bei GitLab.”

Durch das neue Partnerprogramm von GitLab profitieren gemeinsame Kunden vom zertifizierten Fachwissen der Adfinis, was schnellere Reaktionszeiten und individuelle Betreuung zur Folge hat. 

Über Adfinis 

Unsere Mission ist es, Open-Source-Technologien zu fördern, qualitativ hochwertige Arbeit zu liefern und unternehmenskritische Systeme rund um die Uhr zu betreiben, damit sich unsere Kunden auf ihr Kerngeschäft konzentrieren können. Durch die Zusammenarbeit mit uns werden Kunden vom Vendor lock-in befreit und sind ihrer Konkurrenz einen Schritt voraus.

Adfinis ist ein Dienstleistungsunternehmen mit Sitz in der Schweiz, den Niederlanden und Australien, das Kunden aus dem privaten und öffentlichen Sektor bei der Planung, der Implementierung und dem Betrieb von massgeschneiderten Infrastruktur- und Softwareprojekten unterstützt. Die Kernkompetenzen von Adfinis sind Open Source Engineering, 24/7 Managed Services und Softwareentwicklung.

Als Unternehmen gestalten wir eine Welt innovativer, nachhaltiger und widerstandsfähiger IT-Lösungen, die auf vertrauenswürdiger Open Source Technologie basieren, um das volle Potenzial unserer Kunden zu erschliessen.

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