New two day workshop about #GitLab CI (German)

In addition to operating GitLab for our development teams, we are also using GitLab ourselves to automate the deployment and update of our services. Based on this experience I held a workshop for heise Academy to demonstrate the wide range of features provided by GitLab CI. This time, I extended the workshop to two days and used updated slides and exercises.

I covered the following topics:

• Fundamentals

  • Introduction to jobs and stages
  • Using variables
  • Using images
  • Adding before and after scripts
  • Adding defaults
  • Storing and retrieving artifacts
  • Adding schedules

• Advanced topics

  • Using environment for deployments
  • Triggering pipelines
  • Child pipelines
  • Job templates
  • (Workflow) Rules
  • Merge requests
  • Matrix jobs

• Expert level

  • Understanding job tokens
  • Caching intermediate results
  • Adding services
  • Build container images
  • Using the GitLab container registry
  • Creating releases
  • Using runners
  • Renovating dependencies

Find my slides here as well as the exercises.

The slides and exercises are a result of my slide and demo build system. Take a look at the release for this event.