Installing GitLab
GitLab is a powerful, all-in-one tool to handle the end-to-end DevOps collaboration tool. As we will see in a minute, it hosts the code repository and handles the code testing, deployment, and verification. It is one of the most popular DevOps tools used in the field today.
The company behind the technology, GitLab Inc., had its successful initial public offering on NASDAQ (ticket GTLB) in late 2021, https://techcrunch.com/2021/09/17/inside-gitlabs-ipo-filing/. The company’s success shows the strength of and sustainability of the technology.
We will only need a small set of its features to get up and running with a test lab. The objective is to familiarize ourselves with the overall flow of the steps. I encourage you to look at the GitLab documentation at https://docs.gitlab.com/ to get a sense of its features.
Figure 15.1: GitLab Documentation
For our network lab, we will use the same lab topology that we have been using...
