Book Description

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.
What you will learn

Install GitLab on premises and in the cloud using a variety of configurations
Conduct data migration from the SVN, TFS, CVS, and GitHub platforms to GitLab
Use GitLab runners to develop different types of configurations in software development
Plan and perform CI/CD by using GitLab features
Monitor and secure your software architecture using Prometheus and Grafana
Implement DevOps culture by introducing workflow management tools in GitLab

Who this book is for

If you are a software developer, DevOps professional, or any developer who wants to master GitLab for productive repository management in your day-to-day tasks, this book is for you. Basic understanding of the software development workflow is assumed.
Table of Contents

Introducing the GitLab Architecture
Installing GitLab
Configuring GitLab Using the Web UI
Configuring GitLab from the terminal
Importing your project from GitHub to GitLab
Migrating from CVS
Switching from SVN
Moving repositories from TFS
GitLab Vision - the Whole Toolchain in One Application
Create Your Product, Verify, and Package it
The release and configure phase
Monitoring with Prometheus
Integrating GitLab with CI/CD tools
Setting Up Your Project for GitLab Continuous Integration
Installing and configuring GitLab runners
Using GitLab runners with Docker or Kubernetes
Autoscaling GitLab CI Runners
Monitoring CI metrics
Creating a Basic HA Architecture Using Horizontal Scaling
Managing a hybrid HA environment
Making your environment Fully Distributed
Using Geo to create distributed read-only copies of GitLab