Book description
Port projects over from GitHub and convert SVN projects to GitLab hosted git projects
Key Features
- Effective guide for GitLab migration from GitHub and SVN
- Learn to implement DevOps with GitLab 11
- Manage projects with issue boards and time tracking
Book Description
Gitlab is an open source repository management and version control toolkit with an enterprise offering. This book is the ideal guide to GitLab as a version control system (VCS), issue management tool, and a continuous integration platform.
The book starts with an introduction to GitLab, a walkthrough of its features, and explores concepts such as version control systems, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It then takes you through the process of downloading and installing a local copy of the on-premise version of GitLab in Ubuntu and/or CentOS.
You will look at some common work?ows associated with GitLab work?ow and learn about project management in GitLab. You will see tools and techniques for migrating your code base from various version control systems such as GitHub and SVN to GitLab.
By the end of the book, you will be using Gitlab for repository management, and be able to migrate projects from other VCSs to GitLab.
What you will learn
- Set up CI and test builds for your projects
- Understand the benefits and limitations of GitLab work?ow
- Migrate from other common VCS platforms to Gitlab
- Create, review, and merge code changes
- Learn to branch local code and create a new branch in GitLab
- Configure sequential stages and simultaneous stages for CI/CD
- Access Mattermost for on-premise GitLab
- Discover the issue tracking features of GitLab
Who this book is for
The book is intended for the developers, SREs, and DevOps professionals who are looking for techniques to port their codebase to GitLab from GitHub or are looking to work with GitLab as their version control system of choice. If you've used other VCSs before, that will help with this book.
Table of contents
- Title page
- Copyright and Credits
- Dedication
- About Packt
- Contributors
- Preface
- Introducing GitLab
- Setting Up GitLab
- GitLab Flow
- Issues to Merge Requests
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Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment
- How to install GitLab Runner
- Adding to our example project
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Breaking down .gitlab-ci.yml
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Jobs
- The script parameter
- The before_script and after_script parameters
- The stage parameter
- The image parameter
- The services parameter
- The only and except parameters
- The tags parameter
- The allow_failure parameter
- The when parameter
- The environment parameter
- The cache parameter
- The artifacts parameter
- The variables parameter
- Other parameters
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Jobs
- Adding .gitlab-ci.yml to our example project
- Deconstructing an advanced .gitlab-ci.yml file
- GitLab CI/CD web UI
- Summary
- Porting from GitHub or Subversion (SVN)
- Advanced and Paid Features
- Introduction To Markdown
- Other Books You May Enjoy
Product information
- Title: GitLab Quick Start Guide
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2018
- Publisher(s): Packt Publishing
- ISBN: 9781789534344
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