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Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines
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Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines

by Christopher Cowell, Nicholas Lotz, Chris Timberlake
February 2023
Intermediate to advanced
348 pages
9h 49m
English
Packt Publishing
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Enhancing the Speed and Maintainability of CI/CD Pipelines

In this chapter, we’re going to cover the different tools and methods you can leverage to enhance the speed and maintainability of your CI/CD pipelines. Our goal in this chapter is to cover three main methods for how to speed up your pipelines. We don’t plan on covering every method to speed up a CI pipeline in GitLab, but rather the most impactful methods on pipeline speed.

We will cover the following topics in this chapter:

  • Accelerating pipelines with directed acyclic graphs and parent-child architecture
  • Building code for multiple architectures
  • When and how to leverage caching or artifacts
  • Reducing repeated configuration code with anchors and extensions
  • Improving maintainability ...
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