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GitLab Quick Start Guide

GitLab Quick Start Guide

By : O'Grady
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GitLab Quick Start Guide

GitLab Quick Start Guide

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By: O'Grady

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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Mattermost

One cool thing about self-hosted GitLab is that it contains everything necessary to run your own Mattermost server. What is Mattermost though? It's an open source, private chat server, similar to the commercially available Slack platform, but one that you can host yourself and have more control over. While chat servers sometimes get a bad rep in terms of productivity, they can also be fantastic for collaboration, especially for remote teams, and an excellent method of discussing topics that require more back-and-forth than an email but also need to be referred back to or searchable (unlike a phone call).

If you're running your own GitLab server, it's quite easy to enable the Mattermost service. Firstly, you'll need to have an extra domain pointed at your GitLab server. For example, if your GitLab server is reached at gitlab.example.com, you&apos...

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