Continuous Integration (CI) is one of the most important pillars of Extreme Programming (XP). Continuous Integration has been one of GitLab's most popular features since it was built in version 8. It is very popular with independent developers and open source projects and is currently gaining popularity in other market segments.
Getting started is easy. As we showed you earlier, in Chapter 10, Create Your Product, Verify, and Package it (in the Release and Configure sections), Auto DevOps is switched on by default, so that when adding code to a project, a deployment pipeline is automatically set up in which various jobs are running. These jobs will be run by a GitLab Runner, which you will have to set up. This is completely configurable to the wishes of the developer. The results of the jobs are collected and showed...
