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Gitlab SSO implementation using Keycloak

  Prerequisites  Keycloak server should be up and running  By default Keycloak will start on http://localhost:8180 To install and configure Keycloak visit www.keycloak.org/docs/latest/getting_started/index.html. Gitlab must be installed locally By default Gitlab starts on http://localhost:3000 To install and configure Gitlab visit https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/manual_install.html Environment Gitlab Installed package - gitlab-ce_11.1.4-ce.0_amd64.deb (Omnibus package) Keycloak version - Version 4.2.1.Finalhttps://github.com/ChathuminaVimukthi/Gitlab-SSO-implementation-using-Keycloak SSO Configuration GitLab can be configured to act as a SAML 2.0 Service Provider (SP). This allows GitLab to consume assertions from a SAML 2.0 Identity Provider (IdP) to authenticate users. For this SSO implementation, Gitlab omnibus package is used. But the source package can be used as well. The configuration for the source packge is available on https:/...
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Test Driven Development

What is TDD? If somebody asks me to explain TDD in few words, I say TDD is a development of tests before a feature implementation. You can argue that it’s hard to test things which are not existing yet. And Kent Beck will probably give you a slap for this. So how is it possible? It can be described by following steps:     1. You read and understand requirements for a particular feature.     2. You develop a set of tests which check the feature. All of the tests are red, due to absence of the feature implementation.     3. You develop the feature until all tests become green.     4. Refactor the code. TDD requires a different way of thinking, so in order to start TDD you need to forget the way you developed code before. This process is very hard. And it is even harder if you don’t know how to write unit tests. But it’s worth it. Developing with TDD has valuable advantages:     1. You have a better understanding of a f...

Binary vs. Source Packages

Regardless of the  package manager  you’re using, you have two ways of installing programs on Linux. You either use a pre-built package, or compile it yourself. These days, the former usually wins out by default. There are, however, times when you should consider the alternative. What Are Binary Packages? Installing programs on Linux is usually quite different to installing on Windows. Rather than get the installers off a vendor’s website, the files are retrieved from a repository of programs, usually  tailored  for your operating system. Files for separate programs are stored in an  archive format . This bundles everything into a single file for easy access later. For example, Debian uses the DEB format to store their programs. These bundles are called  binary packages . Installing requires a special program to extract these files and put them onto your computer. That is to say, your package manager (e.g. APT, Yum, and so on). It also doe...

Install Java using binary distributions in Ubuntu

   Why we should use Binary Installation without using apt in U buntu? The difference is that apt installs generic binaries and manages their versions. When compiling a source package you are entirely on your own because apt cannot manage the package. However, compiling a source package and installing it yourself is useful if you need features that can be had only by compiling the package yourself. Sometimes developers will provide features that can only be used in software if a certain compiler switch is used. And sometimes specific processors can perform better if certain compile flags are used.   However, in most cases the features that can be enabled are for debugging purp oses and will never be needed even by hard core users. And the binary version that apt is configured to use is already optimized for your processor. Possible situations where you would need to compile the source yourself would be: There's a version of the software available th...

Quick swap JDK versions (aliases) in Ubuntu

THE ALIAS COMMAND The alias command makes it possible to launch any command or group of commands (inclusive of any options, arguments and redirection) by entering a pre-set string (i.e., sequence of characters). CREATING ALIASES The general syntax for the alias command varies somewhat according to the shell. In the case of the bash shell it is alias [-p] [name="value"] Aliases can be created in the .bashrc file in Ubuntu home directory. But without manipulating the .bashrc , it is the best practice to create a new file . bash _aliases in the home directory. The .bashrc is a hidden file and if you don't see a file like this in home directory , press ctrl+h to unhide all the hidden files and folders. These are hidden because they are not to be edited . But in our case we need to edit these a little bit but carefully. After creating the .bash_aliases open the .bashrc file in the home directory and check if the bellow code snippet is in t...

Python vs AI

WHAT IS AI? From SIRI to self-driving cars, artificial intelligence (AI) is progressing rapidly. While science fiction often portrays AI as robots with human-like characteristics, AI can encompass anything from Google’s search algorithms to IBM’s Watson to autonomous weapons. WHY PYTHON FOR AI? Artificial intelligence today is properly known as narrow AI (or weak AI), in that it is designed to perform a narrow task (e.g. only facial recognition or only internet searches or only driving a car). However, the long-term goal of many researchers is to create general AI (AGI or strong AI). While narrow AI may outperform humans at whatever its specific task is, like playing chess or solving equations, AGI would outperform humans at nearly every cognitive task. For many years, we used Lisp, because it handled lists and trees really well, had garbage collection, and didn’t require type declarations. ...