GitLab CI/CD

Index

• 1. Foundations of CI/CD and GitLab
  • 1.1 CI/CD Core Concepts
  • 1.2 GitLab Platform Overview
  • 1.3 Getting Started with GitLab CI/CD
• 2. Pipeline Configuration Fundamentals
  • 2.1 YAML Essentials for GitLab CI
  • 2.2 Jobs
  • 2.3 Stages
  • 2.4 Global Defaults and Inheritance
• 3. Pipeline Architecture
  • 3.1 Pipeline Types
  • 3.2 Directed Acyclic Graph Pipelines
  • 3.3 Parent-Child Pipelines
  • 3.4 Multi-Project Pipelines
  • 3.5 Triggering Pipelines
• 4. Job Control and Execution Flow
  • 4.1 Rules
  • 4.2 Legacy only/except
  • 4.3 Job Execution Behavior
  • 4.4 Workflow Control
  • 4.5 Parallelism and Concurrency
• 5. Variables and Secrets
  • 5.1 CI/CD Variables Basics
  • 5.2 Variable Types and Protection
  • 5.3 Dynamic Variables
  • 5.4 Secrets Management
• 6. GitLab Runners
  • 6.1 Runner Architecture
  • 6.2 Executors
  • 6.3 Runner Configuration
  • 6.4 Autoscaling and Fleet Management
• 7. Docker and Container Workflows
  • 7.1 Using Container Images in Jobs
  • 7.2 Services
  • 7.3 Building Container Images
  • 7.4 GitLab Container Registry
• 8. Artifacts, Caching and Releases
  • 8.1 Job Artifacts
  • 8.2 Caching
  • 8.3 Package Registry
  • 8.4 Releases
• 9. Reusable and Modular Configuration
  • 9.1 Including External Configuration
  • 9.2 Configuration Reuse Patterns
  • 9.3 CI/CD Components and Catalog
  • 9.4 Built-in Templates
• 10. Testing and Code Quality
  • 10.1 Test Reporting
  • 10.2 Code Coverage
  • 10.3 Quality Analysis
• 11. Security and Compliance (DevSecOps)
  • 11.1 Application Security Testing
  • 11.2 Vulnerability Management
  • 11.3 Security Policies and Compliance
  • 11.4 Pipeline Security Hardening
• 12. Deployment and Environments
  • 12.1 Environments
  • 12.2 Review Apps
  • 12.3 Deployment Strategies
  • 12.4 Deployment Targets
  • 12.5 GitOps and Infrastructure as Code
  • 12.6 Auto DevOps
• 13. Pipeline Optimization
  • 13.1 Speed and Efficiency
  • 13.2 Cost and Resource Management
  • 13.3 Monorepo Strategies
• 14. Monitoring, Debugging and Troubleshooting
  • 14.1 Debugging Pipelines
  • 14.2 Observability and Metrics
  • 14.3 Notifications and Integrations
• 15. Administration, Automation and Migration
  • 15.1 Instance-Level CI/CD Administration
  • 15.2 Governance at Scale
  • 15.3 Programmatic Pipeline Management
  • 15.4 Migrating to GitLab CI/CD

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