Resolved: Fix SSL renewal issue on Gitlab Server

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PROBLEM : I had hosted a gitlab server on Azure and it was not getting autorenewed. SOLUTION :  1. Check the current SSL cert path: sudo grep -n "ssl_certificate" /var/opt/gitlab/nginx/conf/gitlab-http.conf OR sudo grep -n "ssl_certificate" /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb  You are likely to see something like this: nginx['ssl_certificate'] = "/etc/gitlab/ssl/gitlab.example.com.crt" nginx['ssl_certificate_key'] = "/etc/gitlab/ssl/gitlab.example.com.key"  2. In my case, I was using gitlab let'sencrypt. So, I installed certbot. sudo apt update && sudo apt install certbot -y  3. Obtain Fresh Certificate sudo gitlab-ctl stop nginx sudo certbot certonly --standalone -d gitlab.yourdomain.com sudo gitlab-ctl start nginx 4. Configure Gitlab to use new cert external_url "https://gitlab.yourdomain.com" letsencrypt['enable'] = false nginx['s...

Casting GraphQL Types.

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The source of this article is:
https://til.hashrocket.com/posts/g9pakqpyfa-casting-graphql-types-with-inline-fragments

Graphql works with a type system. You ask for fruit and it returns fruit, but that fruit could be a pear or an orange.
(contrived example apologies)
interface Fruit {
  seedless: Boolean
}

type Pear implements Fruit {
  color: String
}

type Apple implements Fruit {
  size: Int
}
GraphQL
So when you ask for fruit, and you want the size of the apple, you have to let graphql know that you want an Apple and are expecting an Apple and while I’m thinking about this as casting the graphql docs call it inline fragments.
  query {
    fruit {
      seedless
      ... on Pear {
        color
      }
      ... on Apple {
        size
      }
    }
  }
GraphQL
The ... is a syntactic element not a writing convention.