GitLab VS RANCID

GitLab Reviews

1. Reinhard

   | Boss at CLOUD Meister | about 3 years ago
   perfect for Freelancers!

RANCID Reviews

GitLab mentions (112)

• Kubernetes CI/CD Pipelines

  GitLab is one of the most popular all-in-one software delivery platforms. It includes source management and CI/CD functions with excellent Kubernetes integration. - Source: dev.to / about 1 month ago

• The Essential Guide to Internal Developer Platforms

  Seamlessly integrate with tools like GitHub, GitLab, and CI/CD pipelines. - Source: dev.to / 2 months ago

• A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev

  Gitlab.com — Unlimited public and private Git repos with up to 5 collaborators. Also offers the following features : CI/CD (Free for Public Repos, 400 mins/month for private repos) Static Sites with GitLab Pages. Container Registry with a 10 GB limit per repo. Project Management and issue Tracking. - Source: dev.to / 3 months ago

• A Non-Coders Guide to Open Source Contributions

  But, do designers belong in Open Source? I will let Veethika Mishra, Senior Product Designer at GitLab, to answer this question through this article. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

• Supercharge Your Mobile Dev Skills: 10 Essential Tools for Max Efficiency

  GitLab: Another code hosting platform that provides integrated services like CI/CD. - Source: dev.to / 4 months ago

RANCID mentions (9)

• Cisco switch backup/restore?

  A decade ago I worked for a shop that needed to routinely back up 100+ cisco switches and routers and refused to pay for solarwinds. I setup a light weight freebsd vm to run this open source software: https://shrubbery.net/rancid/ (Rancid: Really Awesome New Cisco config Differ) and set it to scrape all the equipment every 12 errors. Source: over 1 year ago

• Version control for network configs

  Anyways Rancid does support cvs, svn, and git. Though I have only used it with cvs. Basically what it does, is checks out the configuration, downloads the configuration with other information about the state of the device, commits the configurations(which only changed ones will be in the latest check-ins, and then it can send an email of the changes. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Management Software for Cisco Devices?

  RANCID - Really Awesome New Cisco confIg Differ monitors a router's (or more generally a device's) configuration, including software and hardware (cards, serial numbers, etc) and uses CVS (Concurrent Version System), Subversion or Git to maintain history of changes. Source: almost 2 years ago

• What all are you doing with Ansible?

  If you want to use this as an opportunity to learn Ansible, or you don't want to add another tool to the stack, this is a fine use case. Otherwise, I would consider using either RANCID or Oxidized for configuration backup. Source: about 2 years ago

• Starting with python at 30

  Before I knew about RANCiD (https://shrubbery.net/rancid), I wrote my own Perl application to telnet into a Foundry Networks switch and TFTP its configuration to my computer so I could back it up. At a future employer, I rewrote another coworkers Perl application that collected SNMP values from devices and did stuff with it (forget what all I did then). Source: about 2 years ago