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, … )

2 mins for concepts!

Pipelines

Jobs

Rules and Conditions

What ?

• How can we control pipeline and job creation ?
• only and except are the old way
• rules is the better way

How ?

🦊

Why ?

• Running jobs on merge requests
• Running jobs on special events
• Monorepos (changes)
• Gitflow !
• …

Code reuse

What ?

• include and extends
• 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
• …