Gitlab CI/CD can do this ?!
Agenda
- Introduction
- Gitlab walkthrough
- Gitlab CI/CD can do this ?!
- QA
Introduction
Who am I ?
- Mohammed Daoudi aka @Iduoad
- Teaholic Devops Engineer @Nimbleways
- weCanTalkAbout([🐧, 🐳, 🦊, …])
- More about me here !
What is Gitlab ?
- Gitlab is a code hosting platform.
- Gitlab is a devops platform.
Gitlab Open *
- Gitlab is open source
- Gitlab is openly developed on Gitlab
- Open Culture (handbook, remote-manifesto, … )
Gitlab Open *
- Gitlab Open Community (community heros, meetups …)
- Gitlab is developed by Gitlab in Gitlab
Gitlab Walkthrough
Gitlab CI/CD can do this ?!
2 mins for concepts!
Pipelines
Jobs
Rules and Conditions
What ?
- How can we control pipeline and job creation ?
onlyandexceptare the old wayrulesis the better way
How ?
🦊
Why ?
- Running jobs on merge requests
- Running jobs on special events
- Monorepos (
changes) - Gitflow !
- …
Code reuse
What ?
includeandextends- YAML anchors
!reference
How ?
🦊
Why ?
- Generic jobs
- Centralized configuration
- Monorepos
- …
Caching
What ?
- How it works ?!
- Keys and paths
- Cache policy
- Multiple caches
How ?
🦊
Why ?
- Caching dependencies
- Caching things that won’t change
- Caching everything (
untracked) - …
Images and services
What ?
- Gitlab runners with docker executor
- Images should be the smallest
- Services !!
How ?
🦊
Why ?
- Clean jobs
- Dependencies included
- Integration testing
- …
DAG Pipelines
What ?
- By default jobs depends on all the jobs in the previous stage
- Fine grained control job dependency.
- Optional dependencies
How ?
🦊
Why ?
- Monorepos
- Huge pipelines
- Jobs running on specific branches (optional)
- …
Releases
What ?
- Releases can be created manually from the UI.
- gitlab-release-cli comes to the rescue.
- The release tag make things very easy.
How ?
🦊
Why ?
- Releases are crucial for every project.
- …
A lot more!
A lot more!
- Kubernetes integration
- Reports
- Templates
- Auto-Devops
- …
Thank you
Let’s be friends! 🤗
Gitlab CI/CD can do this ?!