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 two day workshop for heise Academy to demonstrate the wide range of features provided by GitLab CI.

I covered the following topics:

• Fundamentals

  • Introduction to jobs and stages
  • Using variables
  • Adding before and after scripts
  • Using images
  • Adding defaults
  • Storing and retrieving artifacts
  • Job dependencies
  • Adding schedules
  • CI/CD configuration
  • Adding unit tests
  • Manually starting pipelines with forms

• Advanced topics

  • Using environment for deployments
  • Triggering pipelines
  • Child pipelines
  • Job templates
  • (Workflow) Rules
  • Merge requests
  • Matrix jobs
  • Variable precedence
  • GitLab feature deprecations

• Expert level

  • Roles and permissions in GitLab
  • Understanding job tokens
  • Working with Git submodules
  • Adding services
  • Build container images
  • Using the GitLab container registry
  • Creating releases
  • Using branch protection
  • Troubleshooting pipelines
  • Using runners
  • Caching intermediate results
  • Renovating dependencies
  • Exploring security features in GitLab community edition
  • CI/CD components
  • CI/CD steps
  • Using pipeline inputs
  • Using secure files

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.