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Learning DevOps - Second Edition

By : Mikael Krief
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Learning DevOps - Second Edition

By: Mikael Krief

Overview of this book

In the implementation of DevOps processes, the choice of tools is crucial to the sustainability of projects and collaboration between developers and ops. This book presents the different patterns and tools for provisioning and configuring an infrastructure in the cloud, covering mostly open source tools with a large community contribution, such as Terraform, Ansible, and Packer, which are assets for automation. This DevOps book will show you how to containerize your applications with Docker and Kubernetes and walk you through the construction of DevOps pipelines in Jenkins as well as Azure pipelines before covering the tools and importance of testing. You'll find a complete chapter on DevOps practices and tooling for open source projects before getting to grips with security integration in DevOps using Inspec, Hashicorp Vault, and Azure Secure DevOps kit. You'll also learn about the reduction of downtime with blue-green deployment and feature flags techniques before finally covering common DevOps best practices for all your projects. By the end of this book, you'll have built a solid foundation in DevOps and developed the skills necessary to enhance a traditional software delivery process using modern software delivery tools and techniques.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
1
Section 1: DevOps and Infrastructure as Code
7
Section 2: DevOps CI/CD Pipeline
11
Section 3: Containerized Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes
14
Section 4: Testing Your Application
18
Section 5: Taking DevOps Further/More on DevOps

Using GitLab CI

In the previous sections of this chapter, we learned how to create CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure Pipelines.

Now, let's look at a lab using another DevOps tool that is gaining popularity: GitLab CI.

GitLab CI is one of the services offered by GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com/), which, like Azure DevOps, is a cloud platform with the following attributes:

  • A source code manager
  • A CI/CD pipeline manager
  • A board for project management

The other services it offers are listed here: https://about.gitlab.com/features/.

GitLab has a free price model with additional services that are subject to a charge; a price grid is available at https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/. The differences between Azure DevOps and GitLab are detailed in this link: https://about.gitlab.com/devops-tools/azure-devops-vs-gitlab.html.

In this lab, we'll find out about the following:

  1. Authentication at GitLab
  2. Creating a new project and versioning...