Practical GitLab Services: A Complete DevOps Guide for Developers and Administrators

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J. PainterPractical GitLab Serviceshttps://doi.org/10.1007/979-8-8688-0427-4_6

6. You Build It, You Keep It

Jeffrey Painter¹  

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Sugar Grove, IL, USA

 

Now that we covered the basics of defining a CI/CD pipeline in GitLab, including how to control the running of jobs to handle a variety of use cases, we haven’t talked yet about how to store the products that we are creating with those pipelines. In this chapter, we’ll look at how to create artifacts that are the ultimate products to be deployed. In addition, we’ll look at how to cache intermediate objects that are generated while creating the products to be delivered.

Creating and Preserving Artifacts

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