Some useful settings
Git strategy is not relevant for executors like Docker and Kubernetes
Get badges for pipelines status, coverage report and the latest release
Shallow clones with 20 depth
Job timeout defaults to 1h …
…but can be overridden in .gitlab-ci.yml using timeout
Auto DevOps provides preconfigured jobs for building, testing and scanning software projects
More useful settings
Connect specific runners
Disable shared runners
Prevent unintentional deployments using Deploy Freeze
Job scripts must implement freeze
Use $CI_DEPLOY_FREEZE to check for active deploy freeze
We will come back to this later!