GitLab CI/CD Training

Course Description

This training explains what Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are & what value they bring to the software development lifecycle. It also outlines the architecture behind GitLab’s CI/CD pipelines & explains how to set up essential CI/CD pipelines in your projects. In addition, it discusses leveraging one of GitLab’s security scanners and uploading your software to a Docker Container registry as examples of specific CI/CD pipeline use cases.

The features covered in the GitLab CI/CD Training include those that are available in all three GitLab pricing levels (Free, Premium, and Ultimate), some that are only accessible in Premium & Ultimate, and a tiny subset of features that are only available in Ultimate.

 

Prerequisites

 

  •  Topics covered in the GitLab with Git Basics course or equivalent experience with Git & GitLab
  •  This course is not appropriate for students with no Git or GitLab knowledge

Audience Profile

  • Development teams, quality assurance teams, release engineers

Learning Objectives

Prerequisite knowledge

  •  Topics covered in the GitLab with Git Basics course or equivalent experience with Git & GitLab
  •  This course is not appropriate for students with no Git or GitLab knowledge

Content Outline

• What is GitLab

• Today’s Software Delivery Landscape

• GitLab Workflow & Example

• What is CI/CD

• GitLab’s CI/CD Workflow

• Why Use CI/CD

• Dogfooding: Building GitLab with GitLab

• Demo/Lab: Review a Sample CI/CD Section

 

  • Configuration File & GitLab Runners
  • Runner Architecture
  • Runner Characteristics & Types
  • Runner Options
  • Runner Executors
  • Demo/Lab: Register a GitLab Runner for a simple pipeline
  • Anatomy of a CI/CD Pipeline
  • Basic Pipeline Builds
  • Directed Acyclic Graph Pipelines
  • Child & Parent Pipelines
  • GitLab Pipeline Graph
  • Basic Keywords: Definitions & Examples
  • .gitlab-ci.yml Example
  • Demo/Lab: Create a Basic CI/CD Configuration
  • Demo/Lab: Display Environment Variables in a Pipeline
  • Advanced Keywords
  • Writing Maintainable CI/CD Configuration Files
  • Microlearning Game: Reviewing Day 1
  • Variable Scope & Priority
  • Lab: Variable Hierarchy
  • Lab: Job Policy Pattern
  • Microlearning Game: Pipeline Review

Lab: Using Artifacts

  • What are Package & Container Registries?
  • Lab: GitLab Docker Registry
  • Lab: Enabling Security Scanning OR Code Quality Scanning (student choice)

FAQs

GitLab is an open-source code repository & collaborative software development platform for large DevOps & DevSecOps projects. GitLab is free for individuals. GitLab offers a location for online code storage & capabilities for issue tracking & CI/CD.

The significant difference between GitHub & GitLab is the platform each philosophy presents. GitHub has higher availability & is more focused on infrastructure performance, while GitLab is more focused on offering a features-based system with a centralized, integrated platform for web developers.

For self-hosted private repositories, GitLab is the better choice. Professionals can get started without having to pay any monthly subscription fee. Both options are great for open-source projects, with GitLab offering premium features for free & GitHub offering access to a larger pool of active open-source developers.

 

GitLab is a single application with all the functionality of a DevSecOps Platform, allowing organizations to deliver software faster while strengthening security & compliance, thereby maximizing the return on software development.

 

GitLab's open core is published under an MIT open-source license. The rest is source-available. Everyone can contribute to making GitLab better.

 

GitLab is designed for cloud-native applications with tight Kubernetes integration. Many businesses are shifting from traditional deployment models to cloud-native applications to gain speed, reliability, & scale. Learn more about how GitLab can power your cloud-native development.

 

More about GitLab itself, & other similar services, you can read in our article: Top Git hosting services for 2022. Another handy thing is the GitLab API. It is a tool that allows you to automate your work. Many of the basic daily operations we perform can be automated.

 

GitLab.com is powered by an extensive PostgreSQL database ("the database" in this doc) which is often used as a point of reference in terms of scale - after all, this is the largest installation of GitLab we have access to.

 

We're the company behind GitLab, the most comprehensive DevSecOps platform. What started in 2011 as an open-source project to help one team of programmers collaborate is now the platform millions of people use to deliver software faster & more efficiently while strengthening security & compliance.

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