I’m sure that everyone in the software industry has heard of the term “feature toggles”. I don’t know how many of you have used this feature in your workflow but feature toggles are a great way to on/off a feature that has not been yet implemented fully. This method used mostly in the teams that follow continuous integration practices.

The @Sql annotation is a powerful Spring-specific annotation which you can use while creating integration tests. I’ve been using it for quite a while, it’s easy to use and powerful.

Recently I came across a situation in which I had to insert a row into a database table before the integration test performed and of course I used @Sql annotation.

Sometimes you need to use a package when there is no internet access. But connecting to the Internet and using the lovely aptitude are not possible for the server(s) you want to make changes due to network restrictions!

apt-offline to the rescue. Come with me.

Let’s say you configured a private Docker registry for your in-house development workflow and you’re using it in your daily development and/or CI/CD workflow intensively.

When I configured the registry on our server, I use the official Docker image and I chose a quick configuration after pulling that image.

One of the boring things while working with Ansible is that it prompts each time the hosts’ SSH passwords.

$ ansible-playbook my-playbook.yml
SSH password:

I kept entering passwords a very long time when creating/modifying playbooks.

Finally, I decided not to enter ssh passwords each time. Its very simple configuration indeed.