Using GitLab CI

In the previous sections of this chapter, we learned how to create CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Azure Pipelines.

Now let's look at a lab using another DevOps tool that is gaining popularity: GitLab CI.

GitLab CI is one of the services offered by GitLab (https://about.gitlab.com/), which, like Azure DevOps, is a cloud platform with the following:

• A source code manager
• A CI/CD pipeline manager
• A board for project management

The other services it offers are listed here: https://about.gitlab.com/features/.

GitLab has a free price model with additional services that are subject to a charge; the price grid is available at https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ and is shown as follows:

In this lab, we'll see the following...