After migrating my Kubernetes cluster from Calico to Cilium, enabling kube-proxy replacement and migrating from ingress-nginx to Cilium Ingress, the final step was moving to the Kubernetes Gateway API. What looked like a straightforward migration turned into several hours of debugging. Hopefully this post saves someone else the same time. Environment My goal was simple: […]
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When working with GitLab CI/CD, sometimes you want to save job artifacts only for protected branches or tags, like main or release/*, while ignoring them on feature branches. It seems simple at first, but as I found out, GitLab’s YAML rules and artifact system have some tricky limitations, especially if you need it while the