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When the third-party PPA goes down: replacing a Dockerfile with a pre-built image on Docker Hub

Three days, three CI failures, all rooted in the same place: the Dockerfile our build runs from rebuilds the world from scratch every single CI run, and every external source it touches is somebody else’s reliability problem. Here’s what that … Continue reading

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When a Composer package vanishes from GitHub: don’t panic, and don’t delete vendor/

Today our CI/CD pipeline went red on a job that hadn’t been touched in months. The .gitlab-ci.yml was untouched. The branch built fine yesterday. composer install exploded. The relevant chunk of the failure log: 12345678Failed to download acme/some-nova-tool from dist: … Continue reading

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