GitLab CI/CD

2 days / Max 8 people *

Target Audience

People attending this course are GitLab CI users, developers, operators, or deployment managers wanting to implement CI/CD approaches with GitLab.

Course outline *

Introduction to GitLab

• Introducing GitLab
• History
• What the competition offers
• Subscription levels
• Architecture and Components
• Vocabulary (pipelines, stages, jobs, etc.)

Users and roles

• The roles and their respective scopes
• Link between user, group and role
• Access tokens

Continuous Integration (basic)

• Structure within a build project
• Most common attributes that make up the .gitlab-ci.yml file
• Variables within a CI project
• Rules and events
• Merge strategies

Automated tests

• Integration of automated tests within the pipeline (unit tests, integration tests, etc.)
• Notify the result of a job
• Presentation of the “Testing” view

Continuous Integration (advanced)

• Definition and explanation of the Docker approach in Docker and other methods for creating containers
• Management of dependencies between jobs
• Creation of artifacts to transmit the result of one job to another
• Defining parallelization within GitLab CI
• Using the GitLab image registry to push the containerized image
• Principle and implementation of a Merge Request within a CI

Specific features for Premium and EE versions

• Premium: Definition of predefined templates
• EE: Use and integration of Application Security

Shared libraries

• Introduction to shared libraries
• Structure and implementation of reusable scripts
• Building a pipeline using reusable libraries

Securing the CI

• Raising awareness about the “Supply chain attack”
• Management of secrets, tokens, sensitive data and signed commits (GPG)
• Integration of reports from security tools within the Merge Request

Continuous Deployment/Delivery

• Defining and configuring automated deployment jobs
• Use of the concept of environments
• Defining and integrating child pipelines
• Setting up rules and triggers
• Explanation of the GitOps approach

Third-party integration

• Webhook integration with Slack, Mattermost, etc.

Monitoring, auditability and troubleshooting

• Presentation of monitoring dashboards
• Presentation of the auditability section
• Use of logs and troubleshooting tools during a problem when building a pipeline

This course is made up of numerous labs, demos, quizzes.

* Standard modalities – Modular according to your configuration and your objectives

Prerequisites

Participants in this course have skills and experience working with Git (see our training) , and theoretical knowledge about CI/CD.