What this book covers
Chapter 1, Understanding Life Before DevOps, offers a short review of the major software development life cycle stages, and how they can be problematic when done manually.
Chapter 2, Practicing Basic Git Commands, provides an introduction to Git, the powerful version control system that GitLab is built around.
Chapter 3, Understanding GitLab Components, presents a survey of the major components of GitLab that every GitLab user needs to be familiar with.
Chapter 4, Understanding the GitLab CI/CD Pipeline Structure, explains the purpose and structure of GitLab CI/CD pipelines: how they work, how to configure them, and how to view their results.
Chapter 5, Installing and Configuring GitLab Runners, explores the critical support tool that powers GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
Chapter 6, Verifying Your Code, presents the GitLab CI/CD pipeline features dedicated to ensuring that your code is of high-quality and functionally correct.
Chapter 7, Securing Your Code, discusses the GitLab CI/CD pipeline scanners that identify security vulnerabilities in your code.
Chapter 8, Packaging and Deploying Your Code, explains how to use GitLab CI/CD pipelines to automate the usage of common build and package tools to get your code into a deployable form.
Chapter 9, Enhancing the Speed and Maintainability of CI/CD Pipelines, surveys some techniques for speeding up GitLab CI/CD pipelines and making them easy to read and maintain.
Chapter 10, Extending the Reach of CI/CD Pipelines, explains how to use GitLab CI/CD pipelines to spot performance problems in your code, how to enable or disable product features from the GitLab dashboard, and how to use GitLab to develop mobile applications.
Chapter 11, End-to-End Example, demonstrates an end-to-end example that combines many of the GitLab techniques you’ve learned into a single, realistic software development workflow.
Chapter 12, Troubleshooting and the Road Ahead with GitLab, provides a collection of tips for troubleshooting problematic GitLab CI/CD pipelines, along with some thoughts on using GitOps to manage your infrastructure and possible future directions for GitLab.