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Helen Drewski
In my case I was able to manipulate the repositories and pull code directly with git because I had full administrative privileges in GitLab. In the end it turns out that GitLab Runner was not allowed to clone the repository because my user was not a direct member of the project group.
This inconsistency need to be fixed, either Admin user should not be able to push/start pipeline, having no rights for it, or he should authomatically be granted all rights to all projects. I'd prefer the first one, because it separates gitlab administration from project rights. Sometimes I prefer not having full rights, just like working as non-root under Linux.
The include keyword lets you compose your CI/CD configuration from multiple files. For example, you can split onelong .gitlab-ci.yml file into multiple files to increase readability, or reuse one CI/CD configuration file in multiple projects.
Reading the documentation was helpful to get a better sense of what was possible. It also allowed us to think about how this system could become useful. One way was to actually incorporate a project into this CI/CD system and try it out.
In this project we were using to test the .gitlab-ci.yml file configuration, it turns out that the user who triggered the job must be associated with the project in order for them to perform the git clone command properly within the job. Easy enough to just add them as a member of the project.
When you use SSH to connect to a remote server, it is possible to send a command to execute on the remote server as well. We are using this feature to execute the deploy.sh script and update the project code on that staging server.
Having this GitLab CI/CD system setup is extremely useful. With the completion of this project, it is now possible to create code changes (with tests), git commit/push, and eventually have this work available for other project managers and developers to review.
While CI verifies that new code won't break when integrated with other code in the same repo, having
all tests pass on that repo is only the first step. After running CI on the code, it is important to
deploy and run tests in a live environment. Moving from CI to continuous delivery and deployment (CD)
is the next step of DevOps maturity. Deploying and then testing again allows code in one project
to be tested together with other components and services which may be managed in other projects.
The .gitlab-ci.yml file defines the order of the CI/CD stages, which jobs to execute, and at which
conditions to run or skip a job's execution. Adding a 'bridge job' with the trigger keyword to
this file can be used to trigger cross-project pipelines. We can pass parameters to jobs in
downstream pipelines, and even define a branch that a downstream pipeline will use.
Setting up the import of GitLab projects into SonarQube allows you to easily create SonarQube projects from your GitLab projects. If you're using Developer Edition or above, this is also the first step in adding merge request decoration.
To do this, add a project from GitLab by clicking the Add project button in the upper-right corner of the Projects homepage and select GitLab from the drop-down menu.
You need to adjust the analysis scope to make sure SonarQube doesn't analyze code from other projects in your mono repository. To do this set up a Source File Inclusion for your project at Project Settings > Analysis Scope with a pattern that will only include files from the appropriate folder. For example, adding ./MyFolderName/**/* to your inclusions will only include code in the MyFolderName folder. See Narrowing the focus for more information on setting your analysis scope.
If you understand the basic concepts of GitLab pipelines, feel free to clone this repository and run some experiments on your new CI/CD project. You can run some jobs only on a specific branch; you can open merge requests and run jobs after merging. You could detect code changes and run some jobs if there were changes in particular directories.
Wojciech enjoys working with small teams where the quality of the code and the project's direction are essential. In the long run, this allows him to have a broad understanding of the subject, develop personally and look for challenges. He deals with programming in Java and Kotlin. Additionally, Wojciech is interested in Big Data tools, making him a perfect candidate for various Data-Intensive Application implementations.
In this tutorial, you have configured a continuous deployment pipeline with GitLab CI/CD. You created a small web project consisting of an HTML file and a Dockerfile. Then you configured the .gitlab-ci.yml pipeline configuration to:
the interesting thing which I have in mind is maybe this:
Another topic which is often not really clear is how to versioning with a pipeline, how can we trigger a release (manual by API, or by a specific trigger like changed file) in the way that we have not to do a change in the gitlab-ci.yml file (to activate release button, and then deactivate release button)...
Releasing and Versioning is often confusing topic when I look into development teams, mostly they have per project only one package which they "release" what they do is just deploy.
In this episode we will discuss ways to take a CI pipeline apart andextract parts of the pipeline into separate YAML files that can be includedinto the main .gitlab-ci.yml YAML file or even reused in other projects inthe same or different GitLab instances.Finally, we will show you how to benefit from existing GitLab CI/CD Templatesand include these in your pipeline.
Theinclude keywordused here is the keyword of your choice if you want to include YAML filesinto another YAML file.Imagine you have defined a YAML file that appears to be useful for manyPython projects: An example could be a YAML file lint.gitlab-ci.ymlthat is linting Python code and is put into directory .gitlab/ci/ ofyour Python project:
As demonstrated above, the simplest way to include YAML files in another oneis to put the file to include somewhere in the same project and reference itwith the include:local sub-keyin the main YAML file .gitlab-ci.yml by using the relativepath from the project root to the YAML file to include.
Your path to become a master in GitLab CI pipelines has been laid out.These resources will help you when you are about to develop CI pipelinesin your own projects.In the next session of this workshop we will focus on your code projects andhelp you to get started with your CI projects.After that you will be able to dive deeper into the topic on your own byworking on your specific requirements of your CI pipelines and readingmore in the official GitLab documentation aboutconcepts,keywords, andtemplates.
When creating a GitLab-based project in CircleCI, an SSH key is created, which is used to check out code from your repo. Each configuration you create generates a new SSH key to access the code in the repo associated with that configuration. At this time, only Additional SSH Keys are applicable to GitLab projects.
You can set the GIT_STRATEGY used for getting recent application code. clone is slower, but makes sure you have a clean directory before every build. fetch is faster. GIT_STRATEGY can be specified in the global variables section or in the variables section for individual jobs. If it's not specified, then the default from project settings will be used.
There is no need to push the changes, as the GitLab runner will pick the code from your local Git configuration and not the remote. This is good because once you are done with debugging, you can delete the above commit with git reset HEAD1.
A CI/CD pipeline automates the process of delivering code from a developers machine to production. Obviously that statement is an over simplification of the process because the digram above illustrates numerous steps. This section is going to provide a high overview of the process to help you understand the general process needed for this blog post. CI/CD stands for continuous integration and continuous deployment, which as the acronym and the digram above illustrates is two distinct phases. Continuous integration is the process of integrating code changes, validating the new code changes can still build/compile the application, and ensuring the new code passes a set of tests.
As you scan see in the screenshot below the policy allows reading and listing of the secrets stored at the following path: secrets/gitlab/project_1. Lastly, this policy must be attached to a Vault role that specifies an auth mechanism (JWT) and a bound claim (more on this later) that can access those secrets defined in the attached policy.
Next, we need to configure a Gitlab CI/CD pipeline using a .gitlab-ci.yml config. First, this file is defined in the project repo. While this config can come in many shapes and sizes the basic outline will look like the screenshot below. The config starts by defining the Vault address, Vault secret path, and the Vault role in the variable section. When the CI/CD pipeline is triggered Gitlab will generate a JWT that is passed to the pipeline as the following environment variable CI_JOB_JWT.
To help you get the big picture right, in summary, this is how our deployment setup is going to work: on push or pull request to main, GitHub Actions will test and upload our source code to Amazon S3. The code is then pulled from Amazon S3 to our Elastic Beanstalk environment. Picture the flow this way:
Now that you've updated your workflow file locally, you can then commit and push this change to your remote. Your jobs will run and your code will be deployed to the Elastic Beanstalk instance you created. And that's it. We're done >>>
GitLab CI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery & deployment (CI/CD) server. It helps agile teams to test code from a concentrated area, all while furnishing built-in integration with Git repositories. In this guide, we will examine how to utilize GitLab CI to run tests locally.
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