Adam OGrady - GitLab Quick Start Guide: Migrate to GitLab for all your repository management solutions

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Adam O'Grady hails from the remote Perth, Western Australia, and can usually be found on Twitter at @adamjogrady or in meatspace wrangling with code.

His first taste of programming came from building games into graphics calculators at high school, and quickly developed into a passion. A few years later, while doing social media marketing for an ISP, his first big break arrived; building custom applications to monitor and respond to social feeds.
After that, he spent a few years working for the government building systems that used satellite and geographic data to spot and predict bushfires, and now you can find him leading a small team of engineering mavens at a local health start-up.

Reece Como is an experienced mobile and backend engineer who works in the mobile and growth teams at Australia's largest healthcare platform, HealthEngine. Previously he has worked at The University of Western Australia, assisting with the teaching of networks, security, and cloud computing, under the guidance of Dr. David Glance. Reece, who has a degree in both marketing and computer science, is passionate about finding the real-world applications of technologies, and using them to grow and enrich people's lives.

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This book explores the GitLab platform, an online system that allows you to host and test code, deploy your application, as well as manage changes, features, bugs, documentation, and much more. We'll explore using the online offering provided by GitLab.com as well as setting up your own GitLab server, creating/importing/editing projects, and testing/deploying your project directly through GitLab.

This book is geared towards system administrators and developers (and hybrid roles including SREs and DevOps) who are looking to learn more about the GitLab version control/code hosting platform; however, it is usable by anyone who sees a use for version control systems, including authors writing a book or teams looking for a collaborative way to edit large markup files or datasets.

For those just looking to explore GitLab's web user interface, create projects, and edit files online, readers should be comfortable with a web browser and very basic familiarity with the Terminal or command line, including changing directories and listing files in a directory.

Readers who are interested in installing their own GitLab instance must be familiar with using a Unix-based operating system such as Ubuntu or CentOS, including working with the command line and installing software.

People taking advantage of the continuous integration/continuous delivery features of GitLab should be comfortable with their programming language of choice as well as any preferred test suites or linters. The examples in this book use a PHP project, but it is just to demonstrate committing code and setting up tests. It's not a core requirement to know PHP.