CI/CD Pipelines: A Comprehensive Guide
This comprehensive guide provides an in-depth exploration of CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery/Deployment) pipelines, covering essential concepts, syntax, and practical applications. Learn how CI/CD automates the build, test, and deployment phases of your application, from initial setup and configuration to advanced topics like security, debugging, and integration with cloud services like Google Cloud. This resource is designed to help you understand and implement efficient, automated workflows for software development.
6-8 hours
Gesamt
January 2025
Letzte Aktualisierung
GitLab Documentation
Comprehensive Guide
Is this documentation right for me?
This comprehensive documentation is suitable for developers, DevOps engineers, and anyone involved in the software development lifecycle who wants to understand, implement, or optimize CI/CD pipelines. It’s particularly useful if you’re looking to automate your build, test, and deployment processes, improve collaboration, and enhance software quality.
Prerequisites:
- Basic understanding of software development concepts.
- Familiarity with version control systems (like Git) is recommended.
- Basic command-line knowledge.
What will I learn?
In these docs, you can learn about:
- Using CI/CD to Build and Generate Applications: Understand how CI/CD pipelines automate the compilation, packaging, and artifact generation of your software. Including two tutorials with different complexity.
- Getting Started & Overview: A foundational understanding of CI/CD concepts and how various features work together in a pipeline.
- CI/CD YAML Syntax Reference: Detailed exploration of pipeline configuration keywords, syntax, examples, and inputs for defining your CI/CD workflows.
- Runners: How to configure and manage runners for executing CI/CD jobs.
- Pipelines: In-depth coverage of pipeline configuration, automation strategies, defining stages, setting schedules, and optimizing pipeline efficiency.
- Jobs: How to configure individual jobs, define rules, implement caching, manage artifacts, and analyze job logs.
- CI/CD Components: How to create and utilize reusable, versioned CI/CD components to streamline pipeline development.
- CI/CD Variables: Configuration, usage, and security considerations for CI/CD variables.
- Pipeline Security: Best practices for secrets management, understanding job tokens, using secure files, and ensuring cloud security within your pipelines.
- Debugging: Techniques for configuration validation, identifying warnings, resolving errors, and general troubleshooting of CI/CD pipelines.
- Auto DevOps: An overview of automated DevOps features, including language detection, default deployments, and customization options.
- Testing: Integration of unit tests, integration tests, generation of test reports, measuring code coverage, and ensuring overall quality assurance within the pipeline.
- Google Cloud Integration: How to integrate CI/CD pipelines with Google Cloud services and manage Kubernetes deployments.
- Migrate to GitLab CI/CD: Guidance on migrating existing CI/CD setups from platforms like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and others to GitLab CI/CD.
- External Repository Integrations: How to integrate with external repositories like GitHub and Bitbucket, set up mirroring, and manage cross-platform CI/CD.
What will I be able to do?
By the end of this tutorial, you will be able to:
- Design and implement robust CI/CD pipelines for your applications.
- Automate the build, test, and deployment processes, significantly reducing manual effort.
- Write efficient and secure CI/CD configurations using YAML syntax.
- Troubleshoot and debug pipeline failures effectively.
- Integrate your CI/CD workflows with various external repositories and cloud platforms, including Google Cloud.
- Understand and apply best practices for pipeline security and secrets management.
- Migrate existing CI/CD setups to GitLab CI/CD if applicable.