About this book

GitLab is an open source repository management and version control toolkit with functions for enterprises and personal software projects. It offers configurability options, extensions, and APIs that make it an ideal tool for enterprises to manage the software development life cycle. This book begins by explaining GitLab options and the components of the GitLab architecture. You will learn how to install and set up GitLab on-premises and in the cloud, along with understanding how to migrate code bases from different systems, such as GitHub, Concurrent Versions System, Team Foundation Version Control, and Subversion. Later chapters will help you implement DevOps culture by introducing the workflow management tools in GitLab and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD). In addition to this, the book will guide you through installing GitLab on a range of cloud platforms, monitoring with Prometheus, and deploying an environment with GitLab. You'll also focus on the GitLab CI component to assist you with creating development pipelines and jobs, along with helping you set up GitLab runners for your own project. Finally, you will be able to choose a high availability setup that fits your needs and helps you monitor and act on results obtained after testing. By the end of this book, you will have gained the expertise you need to use GitLab features effectively, and be able to integrate all phases in the development process.

Publication date:: August 2019
Publisher: Packt
Pages: 608
ISBN: 9781789531282
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Section 1: Install and Set Up GitLab On-Premises or in the Cloud

This section will give you a solid understanding of GitLab deployment options and GitLab component architecture, leaving you able to install and configure GitLab on-premises and in the cloud.

This section comprises the following chapters:

Chapter 1, Introducing the GitLab Architecture
Chapter 2, Installing GitLab
Chapter 3, Configuring GitLab Using the Web UI
Chapter 4, Configuring GitLab from the Terminal

About the Author

Evertse

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.
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You will spend hours setting up configuration before you get to the learning section of this book. There are all kinds of uncertainties when you get to the unicorn section of this book. The author never tells you which files to configure or edit, where to run your commands, how to setup on different operating systems other than the basic install commands.Here's an example of how inconsistent this is. In the unicorn section, the writer tells you to wget a unicorn.conf.rb file and then edit it. Yet he doesn't even tell you that you have to edit the file which you just downloaded to your gitlabb-app directory. He just writes, let's start by making a variable which happens to look like a bash variable. Then when you figure out that you're editing the conf file you just downloaded, you see that he has inconsistent casing for the APP_PATH var. Then he has you run a unicorn command for which you have no idea where it should be ran from. This is just lazy technical writing. I wish i hadn't spent my money on this lousy book.

I returned it, it should have been called “Very Basic Gitlab”.

Kein roter Faden. Alles wirkt sinnlos zusammenkopiert. Tiefer gehende Informationen oder allg. mal eine Erläuterung zu auch nur irgend etwas in dem Buch sucht man vergebens. Hab das Buch zurück geschickt. Das schlechteste Computerbuch, dass ich in der letzten Dekade gelesen habe!

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