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GitLab for CI/CD Pipelines

In a hands-on environment, learn to use the GitLab toolset to start, progress, or mature your CI/CD environment in a way that integrates with your existing pipelines with GitLab.

This course covers setting up continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) for your projects. It starts with a round-robin discussion of where your team is at with CI/CD today. It then focuses on what is CI/CD, why it should be used, and how to implement within GitLab. This class includes live demonstrations of the use of GitLab.

GitLab CI/CD Training covers some features that are available in all three GitLab pricing tiers (Free, Premium, and Ultimate), some features that are only available in Premium and Ultimate, and a small number of features that are only available in Ultimate.

New certification! Starting in July 2020, we're including class participant access to our new GitLab CI/CD Specialist certification assessments. To earn certification, GitLab CI/CD Training participants must receive a passing score on both a written assessment and a lab assessment evaluated by a GitLab Professional Services Engineer

Duration

1 day/8 hours of instruction

Public Classroom Pricing

Starting at: $795(USD)

GSA Price: $685

Group Rate: $695

Private Group Pricing

Have a group of 5 or more students? Request special pricing for private group training today.

Part 1: GitLab Overview and Flow

What is GitLab
Today's Software Delivery Landscape
GitLab Workflow and Example
What is CI/CD
GitLab's CI/CD Workflow
Why Use CI/CD
Dogfooding: Building GitLab with GitLab
Demo: GitLab Introduction/Navigation

Part 2: Architecture and Runners

GitLab CI/CD Basic Flow
Configuration File and Runners
Runner Architecture
Runner Characteristics and Types
Advanced Runner Options
Common Executors
Demo: Runner Registration
Config.toml File

Part 3: Anatomy of a Pipeline

Anatomy of a CI/CD Pipeline
Basic Pipeline Builds
Directed Acyclic Graph Pipelines
Child and Parent Pipelines
GitLab Pipeline Graph
.gitlab-ci.yml Example
Basic Parameters: Definitions and Examples
Demo: GitLab Pipeline Configuration
Hands-on Lab: Create a CI Pipeline

Part 4: Advanced Keywords and DRY

Advanced Parameters
Dependencies
Needs
Parallel
Trigger

Part 5: Variable Precedence & Scoping

Microlearning Game- Reviewing Day 1
Hands-On Lab: Create a CI/CD Pipeline
Hands-On Lab: Define a Pipeline with Environments
Hands-On Lab: Variable Hierarchy
Variable Priority

Part 6: Job Policy Patterns

Hands-On Lab: Scaffold Out a Job Policy Pattern
Microlearning Game: Pipeline Review

Part 7: Artifacts and Dependencies

Hands-On Lab: Artifact Hierarchy

Part 8: Registry & Deployments

What are Package and Container Registries?
Hands-On Lab: GitLab Docker Registry

Part 9: Security Scanning or Code Quality Scanning (student choice)

Hands-On Lab: Enabling Security Scanning OR Code Quality

Attendees should already be familiar at a basic knowledge level with the following concepts:

Familiarity with agile development and source code management
GitLab with Git Basics course or equivalent knowledge

Professionals who will benefit from this training include:

Technical project leads
Developers
DevOps practice members
Software engineers
Technical product owners
Application team members

How to accurately describe CI/CD
How runners work
To set up and configure CI/CD and runners
To verify a new feature
Scope and persist variables at various levels
Scaffold out the basics of a test, build, review, and deploy pipeline leveraging feature/topic branching as the review mechanism
Release and deployment workflow
Artifacts and dependency caching
Building and deploying images to GitLab registry
Student choice between static application security scanning and code quality scanning