Delve into GitLab's architecture, and install and configure it to fit your environment
Learn about the underlying principles of Agile software development and DevOps
Explore Gitlab's features to manage enterprise cloud-native applications and services
Description
GitLab is an open source repository management and version control toolkit with functions for enterprises and personal software projects. It offers configurability options, extensions, and APIs that make it an ideal tool for enterprises to manage the software development life cycle.
This book begins by explaining GitLab options and the components of the GitLab architecture. You will learn how to install and set up GitLab on-premises and in the cloud, along with understanding how to migrate code bases from different systems, such as GitHub, Concurrent Versions System, Team Foundation Version Control, and Subversion. Later chapters will help you implement DevOps culture by introducing the workflow management tools in GitLab and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD). In addition to this, the book will guide you through installing GitLab on a range of cloud platforms, monitoring with Prometheus, and deploying an environment with GitLab. You'll also focus on the GitLab CI component to assist you with creating development pipelines and jobs, along with helping you set up GitLab runners for your own project. Finally, you will be able to choose a high availability setup that fits your needs and helps you monitor and act on results obtained after testing.
By the end of this book, you will have gained the expertise you need to use GitLab features effectively, and be able to integrate all phases in the development process.
Who is this book for?
If you are a software developer, DevOps professional, or any developer who wants to master GitLab for productive repository management in your day-to-day tasks, this book is for you. Basic understanding of the software development workflow is assumed.
What you will learn
Install GitLab on premises and in the cloud using a variety of configurations
Conduct data migration from the SVN, TFS, CVS, and GitHub platforms to GitLab
Use GitLab runners to develop different types of configurations in software development
Plan and perform CI/CD by using GitLab features
Monitor and secure your software architecture using Prometheus and Grafana
Implement DevOps culture by introducing workflow management tools in GitLab
This is basically just a collection of links with very poor original content. I regret having purchased this.A book that tells you "this is usually how you would not do xxx" without then telling how to do things correctly is not worth its money.
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A. J. FirminDec 18, 2021
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I returned it, it should have been called “Very Basic Gitlab”.
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SylvainJun 20, 2021
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Ce livre ne vous sera d’aucune utilité pour construire le moindre pipeline avec Gitlab.Si là est votre objectif, alors ne portez aucune attention à ce livre et économisez quelques dizaines d’euro en vous concentrant sur la doc en ligne de Gitlab. Ce sera ardu si vous partez de zéro, mais au moins vous ne serez pas encombré(e) par un bouquin inutile.Ce n’est que mon opinion et je n’ai aucun intérêt à ce que ce livre ne se vende pas. Je parte mon expérience afin d’éviter que mon erreur ne soit reproduite par des personnes qui comme moi à l’époque (décembre 2020) cherchent un guide pour débuter avec le dev sur Gitlab. J’ai eu un training depuis et je confirme que ce livre est hors propos pour apprendre à coder ou se perfectionner.
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dave_g22Mar 12, 2020
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Kein roter Faden. Alles wirkt sinnlos zusammenkopiert. Tiefer gehende Informationen oder allg. mal eine Erläuterung zu auch nur irgend etwas in dem Buch sucht man vergebens. Hab das Buch zurück geschickt. Das schlechteste Computerbuch, dass ich in der letzten Dekade gelesen habe!
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Dewey MarxFeb 04, 2020
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You will spend hours setting up configuration before you get to the learning section of this book. There are all kinds of uncertainties when you get to the unicorn section of this book. The author never tells you which files to configure or edit, where to run your commands, how to setup on different operating systems other than the basic install commands.Here's an example of how inconsistent this is. In the unicorn section, the writer tells you to wget a unicorn.conf.rb file and then edit it. Yet he doesn't even tell you that you have to edit the file which you just downloaded to your gitlabb-app directory. He just writes, let's start by making a variable which happens to look like a bash variable. Then when you figure out that you're editing the conf file you just downloaded, you see that he has inconsistent casing for the APP_PATH var. Then he has you run a unicorn command for which you have no idea where it should be ran from. This is just lazy technical writing. I wish i hadn't spent my money on this lousy book.
Joost Evertse is an all-round professional with over 20 years of experience in IT in the financial and telecom sectors. He has worked for big and small organizations and has lived in different worlds, including Unix, Oracle, Java, and Windows. Creating order from chaos has been a big focus during his system-engineering years. After 10 years of system administration, he moved into software development and started using CI/CD tools, including GitLab.
At the end of 2016, he started at a significant financial company in the GitLab team, shifting his focus more toward the entire CI/CD pipeline, with the mission of making the CI/CD platform more stable and highly available. His team eventually migrated GitLab to a private cloud and improved release cycles.
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