GitLab Quick Start Guide

By : O'Grady

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GitLab Quick Start Guide

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By: O'Grady

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Overview of this book

Gitlab is an open source repository management and version control toolkit with an enterprise offering. This book is the ideal guide to GitLab as a version control system (VCS), issue management tool, and a continuous integration platform. The book starts with an introduction to GitLab, a walkthrough of its features, and explores concepts such as version control systems, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It then takes you through the process of downloading and installing a local copy of the on-premise version of GitLab in Ubuntu and/or CentOS. You will look at some common work?ows associated with GitLab work?ow and learn about project management in GitLab. You will see tools and techniques for migrating your code base from various version control systems such as GitHub and SVN to GitLab. By the end of the book, you will be using Gitlab for repository management, and be able to migrate projects from other VCSs to GitLab.

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Introducing GitLab

Version control systems and Git

Features

Summary

Setting Up GitLab

Requirements

Omnibus on Ubuntu/Debian

Omnibus on CentOS/RHEL/Scientific Linux/Oracle Linux

Manual installation

Setting up HTTPS

Creating accounts on GitLab

Summary

GitLab Flow

Using Git

GitFlow

GitLab Flow

Summary

Issues to Merge Requests

Creating projects

Issues

Merge requests

Summary

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment

How to install GitLab Runner

Adding to our example project

Breaking down .gitlab-ci.yml

Adding .gitlab-ci.yml to our example project

Deconstructing an advanced .gitlab-ci.yml file

GitLab CI/CD web UI

Summary

Porting from GitHub or Subversion (SVN)

Changing code-hosting platform

Moving from another version control system

Summary

Advanced and Paid Features

Snippets

Wiki

Groups

Mattermost

Self-hosted administration

Issue tracking

Merge request approvals

Summary

Introduction To Markdown

Markdown overview

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Changing code-hosting platform

Many organizations, and even just established personal projects, already have a preferred code-hosting platform. There are a lot on the market and they all have benefits and drawbacks that can lead to them being chosen. However, times change and sometimes business or project needs can force a move to a different platform. We'll now look at some common reasons that your organization might have for changing their code-hosting platform:

Cost: GitLab.com is free to use; paid accounts only unlock extra features. You can also host a GitLab instance on your existing hardware.
Data sovereignty: You can host your own GitLab instance on your own hardware and be in control of your data.
Trust and transparency: GitLab is free and open source software (FOSS); you can examine the code that runs on your instance or GitLab.com, and be certain that it&apos...