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GitLab Quick Start Guide

By : Adam O'Grady
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GitLab Quick Start Guide

By: Adam O'Grady

Overview of this book

Gitlab is an open source repository management and version control toolkit with an enterprise offering. This book is the ideal guide to GitLab as a version control system (VCS), issue management tool, and a continuous integration platform. The book starts with an introduction to GitLab, a walkthrough of its features, and explores concepts such as version control systems, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It then takes you through the process of downloading and installing a local copy of the on-premise version of GitLab in Ubuntu and/or CentOS. You will look at some common work?ows associated with GitLab work?ow and learn about project management in GitLab. You will see tools and techniques for migrating your code base from various version control systems such as GitHub and SVN to GitLab. By the end of the book, you will be using Gitlab for repository management, and be able to migrate projects from other VCSs to GitLab.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

GitLab CI/CD web UI

While we've explored how to get GitLab CI up and running by creating a .gitlab-ci.yml file and looked at many of the configuration options available, we've only taken a brief look at the GitLab web user interface for continuous integration and continuous deployment. Let's break down the GitLab web user interface and look at how we can manage and inspect pipelines, jobs, charts, environments, and other common tasks.

The pipelines screen can be accessed under your project by going to CI/CD and then Pipelines through the left-hand side menu. You should then be faced with a screen that looks something like the following:

Here, you can view a list of the pipelines that have run or are currently running, as well as their status (failed, passed, skipped, and so on), who organized them, what branches and commits they are for (including the commit...