Continuous Delivery with GitLab

Learn how to install and use GitLab, a popular open-source alternative to tools like GitHub and Bitbucket, for version control and CI/CD.

GitLab is a popular open-source alternative to tools like GitHub and Bitbucket. In contrast to its competition, GitLab places an emphasis on self-hosting (although you can use their hosted version as well). In this course, learn how to install and use this web-based Git-repository manager for code management. Instructor Josh Samuelson kicks off the course by explaining how to create a project and navigate the GitLab interface. He then digs into how to work with GitLab for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) and source control, explaining how to leverage its collaboration features, create and run a pipeline, and more.

Introduction

• Use GitLab for code management

1. First Steps with GitLab

• What is GitLab?
• Setting up your GitLab server
• Create a project
• Create an SSH key pair
• Getting to know the GitLab interface

2. GitLab for Source Control

• Editing basics in GitLab IDE
• GitLab for collaboration
• Merge requests
• Fork a project

3. Continuous Integration

• Continuous integration vs. Continuous delivery
• GitLab runners
• Create a pipeline
• Running your pipeline
• Going deeper with pipelines

4. Continuous Delivery

• CD concepts
• Environments
• Environment variables
• First deployment pipeline
• Deploy to staging
• Complete CD pipeline
• Releasing to production
• Challenge: Release and revert a release
• Solution: Release and revert a release

Conclusion

• Next steps