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Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines

By : Christopher Cowell, Nicholas Lotz, Chris Timberlake
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Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines

By: Christopher Cowell, Nicholas Lotz, Chris Timberlake

Overview of this book

Developers and release engineers understand the high stakes involved in building, packaging, and deploying code correctly. Ensuring that your code is functionally correct, fast, and secure is a time-consuming and complex task. Code implementation, development, and deployment can be conducted efficiently using GitLab CI/CD pipelines. Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines begins with the basics of Git and GitLab, showing how to commit and review code. You’ll learn to set up GitLab Runners for executing and autoscaling CI/CD pipelines and creating and configuring pipelines for many software development lifecycle steps. You'll also discover where to find pipeline results in GitLab, and how to interpret those results. Through the course of the book, you’ll become well-equipped with deploying code to different environments, advancing CI/CD pipeline features such as connecting GitLab to a Kubernetes cluster and using GitLab with Terraform, triggering pipelines and improving pipeline performance and using best practices and troubleshooting tips for uncooperative pipelines. In-text examples, use cases, and self-assessments will reinforce the important CI/CD, GitLab, and Git concepts, and help you prepare for interviews and certification exams related to GitLab. By the end of this book, you'll be able to use GitLab to build CI/CD pipelines that automate all the DevOps steps needed to build and deploy high-quality, secure code.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
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Part 1 Getting Started with DevOps, Git, and GitLab
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Part 2 Automating DevOps Stages with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines
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Part 3 Next Steps for Improving Your Applications with GitLab

Technical requirements

For this chapter, you need to have Git installed on your local computer. Git works on Linux, macOS, and Windows, as well as many Unix variants. There are easy-to-follow instructions for installing Git on any of these operating systems at https://git-scm.com/downloads. If you’re asked to set configuration options during installation, it’s safe to accept all the default values.

To type the Git commands that you’ll see in this chapter, use your favorite terminal application on Linux or macOS. If you’re a Windows user, you can type them in Command Shell, PowerShell, or Git Bash. The default configuration options while installing Git on Windows should make Git available on any of these types of Windows terminals, and they should all produce identical results when you run Git commands in them.

The Git examples you’ll see in this book are operating system-agnostic: Git works the same no matter where you run it.

To see if it...