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Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines

You're reading from Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines Build efficient CI/CD pipelines to verify, secure, and deploy your code using real-life examples

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803233000

Length 348 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Tools

Gitlab

Concepts

DevOps

Authors (3):

Chris Timberlake

Christopher Cowell

Nicholas Lotz

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Table of Contents (18) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1 Getting Started with DevOps, Git, and GitLab

2. Chapter 1: Understanding Life Before DevOps FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Practicing Basic Git Commands

4. Chapter 3: Understanding GitLab Components

5. Chapter 4: Understanding GitLab’s CI/CD Pipeline Structure

6. Part 2 Automating DevOps Stages with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines

7. Chapter 5: Installing and Configuring GitLab Runners

8. Chapter 6: Verifying Your Code

9. Chapter 7: Securing Your Code

10. Chapter 8: Packaging and Deploying Code

11. Part 3 Next Steps for Improving Your Applications with GitLab

12. Chapter 9: Enhancing the Speed and Maintainability of CI/CD Pipelines

13. Chapter 10: Extending the Reach of CI/CD Pipelines

14. Chapter 11: End-to-End Example

15. Chapter 12: Troubleshooting and the Road Ahead with GitLab

16. Index

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Installing and Configuring GitLab Runners

In Chapter 4, you learned about the fundamentals of GitLab CI/CD. We defined and introduced the vocabulary and concepts around CI/CD pipelines, which included CI/CD pipeline components, different pipeline types, how to observe and interact with pipelines in the GitLab UI, and how to write a pipeline’s configuration using the .gitlab-ci.yml file. A few paragraphs were also spent introducing GitLab Runner as the crucial component of GitLab CI/CD, which actually runs pipeline tasks and reports the results back to GitLab.

The sole focus of this chapter will be the topic of GitLab runners. You will learn in this chapter that GitLab runners act as the “muscle” in the CI/CD process. Runners are small programs that are installed separately from the main GitLab application. Their purpose is to receive new CI/CD jobs published by GitLab and follow the jobs’ instructions as specified in the .gitlab-ci.yml file. Runners can...

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Authors (3)

Christopher Cowell

Christopher Cowell

Christopher Cowell is a former trainer at GitLab, now building educational content at Instabase. He also worked for two decades as a research and development scientist, consultant, and QA Engineer at companies such as Accenture, Oracle, and Puppet. He thinks the software industry undervalues code quality and thoughtful design, and overvalues delivering mediocre code quickly. Slow down, simplify, and get it right! He holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Berkeley and a B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard. He lives in Portland, Oregon.

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Chris Timberlake

Chris Timberlake

Chris Timberlake is a Senior Solutions Architect at GitLab where he works closely with the Product, Services, and Sales teams. Previously, he has worked with Red Hat as a Senior Consultant, where he owned and managed a Digital Marketing firm, and has a background in Security and Law Enforcement. Chris loves technical engineering problems and does whatever possible to have successful customer outcomes. Chris is passionate about open source software, collaborative development, and education. Chris lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee with his family.

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Nicholas Lotz

Nicholas Lotz

Nicholas Lotz is a technical trainer at GitLab, where he teaches organizations how to use GitLab to build and ship better software. He has previously worked as a systems engineer, trainer, and consultant in the software infrastructure space. He is passionate about open source and its capacity to help teams innovate. Nicholas holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Pittsburgh. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee with his Labrador retriever.

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