Continuous Vitae - Auto built and git versioned CV
Versioning your CV is important.
One traditional approach is to date it whenever you send it out.
I chose to present my CV on my website and host it on GitHub.
In this blog post I want to explain how I set up continuous integration pipeline for building my CV that automatically injects a unique version into each build.
This method is applicable for anyone choosing to ascii-based CV - in my case LaTeX.
You also need some basic knowledge of git, Docker and CI services like Drone.
Hosting Gitea and Drone with Docker
This post will walk you through setting up a self hosted git based continuous integration environment on a two machine setup - assuming you already have two virtual machines at your disposal. Using Gitea* for git hosting and contribution management and Drone for docker-based build jobs, this will guide you through creating docker-compose* files as well as configuring the individual services and getting SSL certificates via traefik. Docker and docker-compose knowledge is required for this tutorial. It mostly focuses on the correct configuration of all the services at play here and not explaining their basic functionality.
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