GitLab for CI/CD Pipelines

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