As of Friday, 2016-08-05, I will have worked for GitLab for a month. That is absolutely crazy to me how much time flies! Because GitLab is a completely remote company, it really takes some getting used to on workflow, communication, and really just overall lifestyle changes. I absolutely love it. It is an incredibly amazing benefit that I hope to see become more common. One of the issues I feel that I’ve faced is Imposter Syndrome....
On July 5th I started at GitLab. They are an entirely remote company with an amazing product and really fascinating culture. One of the many things I am very excited about is that as much as possible is public info. For instance, you can see their entire company handbook online. Most of the consumers of such a document are team members, but it was able to give me a great idea on what exactly I should expect and how things work around GitLab....
Recently, I set up my own Gentoo overlay on GitLab with CI using their shared GitLab Runner. I had a lot of trouble at first with getting the CI to cooperate with what I wanted. Getting repoman to work in the docker image was pretty irritating until I found a docker image specifically for testing using repoman. Once I found that, it was super easy! My main purpose for setting up an overlay was primarily to learn how it all works....