Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery with GitLab

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Overview

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

Syllabus

Introduction

Learn continuous integration and delivery with GitLab

1. Delivery Engineering

What is GitLab?
What problem needs solving?
Set up a project
Lean manufacturing models

2. Continuous Integration

Continuous integration
Creating a pipeline
Running your pipeline
Going deeper with pipelines
Adding a test
Generate a website

3. Continuous Delivery

CD concepts
Environments
Environment variables
First deployment pipeline
Automating deployments
Complete CD pipeline
Releasing to prod

Conclusion

Next steps

Taught by

Josh Samuelson

Computer Science / DevOps

Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery with GitLab

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