Why?

Devminds Trainings are on-site, customizable and hands-on. We combine theoretical knowledge, live coding and exercises enabling you to use the technology in your daily work.

• Boost your productivity and cut delivery times
• Streamline your development process
• Foster collaboration and establish a culture of continuous improvement
• GitLab is a comprehensive, modern, single application DevOps platform that seamlessly integrates and visualizes your software development workflow

What?

Introduction

• Functionality
• Architecture
• Hosting options

GitLab Tour

• Project organization: Groups, projects, users
• Issue tracking
• Git repository browser
• Merge requests
• CI/CD pipelines

GitLab CI/CD

• Why CI/CD?
• Basic pipeline structure: Stages, jobs, variables, …
• Runners and executors

GitLab CI/CD Build Stage

• Building example projects
• Building documentation
• Handling artifacts

GitLab CI/CD Test Stage

• Running code formatting and static code analysis tools
• Running unit tests
• Integrating test results and code coverage into GitLab

GitLab CI/CD Deploy Stage

• Handling secrets
• Deploying artifacts such as Docker images or Python packages
• Deploying documentation via GitLab Pages
• Creating GitLab releases

Advanced Topics

• Merge request and release pipelines
• GitLab environments and deployments
• Pipeline optimizations with templates and components
• Automatic dependency updates with Renovate

Learning Objectives

• Successfully use GitLab in a modern DevOps environment
• Efficiently utilize GitLab merge requests and pipelines throughout the software development lifecycle
• Build a comprehensive CI/CD pipeline using example projects
• Visualize results (e.g., test results, code coverage, static code analysis) from the CI/CD pipeline in GitLab
• Continuously deploy artifacts to GitLab registries and GitLab Pages