Evertse - Mastering GitLab 12: implement DevOps culture and repository management solutions

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Joost Evertse is an all-round professional with over 20 years of experience in IT in the financial and telecom sectors. He has worked for big and small organizations and has lived in different worlds, including Unix, Oracle, Java, and Windows. Creating order from chaos has been a big focus during his system-engineering years. After 10 years of system administration, he moved into software development and started using CI/CD tools, including GitLab.

At the end of 2016, he started at a significant financial company in the GitLab team, shifting his focus more toward the entire CI/CD pipeline, with the mission of making the CI/CD platform more stable and highly available. His team eventually migrated GitLab to a private cloud and improved release cycles.

Orlando Monreal is a software engineer with over 12 years of experience, currently working at HCL Technologies Mexico, as part of the Source Code Management team in his project account. He has worked with GitLab applications as an administrator and contact for application support queries, handling upgrade processes and troubleshooting performance and configuration-related issues with the application.

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GitLab is a tool to enhance the workflow of teams and enable parts of the DevOps life cycle. It started out as a tool only for source code management, but today, GitLab can offer help ranging from managing an initial idea to building and testing source code, all the way from development to production.

You'll learn ways to use all of the features available in GitLab to enhance your business via the integration of all phases of the development process. You'll benefit from lower friction by creating one platform on-premises or in the cloud, increase collaboration, and drive competitive advantage with more efficient operations.

This book is for developers and DevOps professionals who want to master the software development workflow in GitLab and boost their productivity by putting their teams to work on GitLab via an on-premise installation or cloud-based infrastructure.

, Introducing the GitLab Architecture, provides a short introduction to the company and the people that created the product, along with a high-level overview of GitLab and its components.

, Installing GitLab , shows you how to i nstall and configure GitLab via several different methods. This can be done from scratch, or via the Omnibus installer. Special attention is given to Docker and Kubernetes when outlining containerized solutions. Finally, a cloud installation via the DigitalOcean infrastructure is taken as an example.

, Configuring GitLab Using the UI , explains the options in t he GitLab web UI that can be configured after installation. This chapter also covers the administration pages where these instance-level options are situated.

, Configuring GitLab from the Terminal, looks at the different ways of configuring GitLab. The first approach is by using the Omnibus package installer provided by GitLab, which automates most of the installation. The chapter continues with configuring a source installation. Configuring Docker containers and managing a Kubernetes installation are also covered.

, Importing Your Project from GitHub to GitLab, outlines the process of migration from GitHub via a hands-on lab. It starts by exploring settings that should be altered in your GitHub project. After this, the settings necessary in GitLab to prepare an import are shown, and finally, the procedure for running the import is addressed.