You're reading from Learning DevOps A comprehensive guide to accelerating DevOps culture adoption with Terraform, Azure DevOps, Kubernetes, and Jenkins

Product type Paperback

Published in Mar 2022

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801818964

Length 560 pages

Edition 2nd Edition

Tools

Azure

Concepts

DevOps

Author (1):

Mikael Krief

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Section 1: DevOps and Infrastructure as Code

2. Chapter 1: The DevOps Culture and Infrastructure as Code Practices FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Provisioning Cloud Infrastructure with Terraform

4. Chapter 3: Using Ansible for Configuring IaaS Infrastructure

5. Chapter 4: Optimizing Infrastructure Deployment with Packer

6. Chapter 5: Authoring the Development Environment with Vagrant

7. Section 2: DevOps CI/CD Pipeline

8. Chapter 6: Managing Your Source Code with Git

9. Chapter 7: Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery

10. Chapter 8: Deploying Infrastructure as Code with CI/CD Pipelines

11. Section 3: Containerized Microservices with Docker and Kubernetes

12. Chapter 9: Containerizing Your Application with Docker

13. Chapter 10: Managing Containers Effectively with Kubernetes

14. Section 4: Testing Your Application

15. Chapter 11: Testing APIs with Postman

16. Chapter 12: Static Code Analysis with SonarQube

17. Chapter 13: Security and Performance Tests

18. Section 5: Taking DevOps Further/More on DevOps

19. Chapter 14: Security in the DevOps Process with DevSecOps

20. Chapter 15: Reducing Deployment Downtime

21. Chapter 16: DevOps for Open Source Projects

22. Chapter 17: DevOps Best Practices

23. Assessments

24. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using GitLab CI

In the previous sections of this chapter, we learned how to create CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure Pipelines.

Now, let's look at a lab using another DevOps tool that is gaining popularity: GitLab CI.

GitLab CI is one of the services offered by GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com/), which, like Azure DevOps, is a cloud platform with the following attributes:

A source code manager
A CI/CD pipeline manager
A board for project management

The other services it offers are listed here: https://about.gitlab.com/features/.

GitLab has a free price model with additional services that are subject to a charge; a price grid is available at https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/. The differences between Azure DevOps and GitLab are detailed in this link: https://about.gitlab.com/devops-tools/azure-devops-vs-gitlab.html.

In this lab, we'll find out about the following: