Mastering CI-CD with GitLab: Automate your Software Delivery

What you’ll learn
How to setup CICD jobs for your project to automate testing and deployment via runners.
Gitlab-ci .yml file comcepts- pipelines, jobs, artifacts, caching, variables, before script, after script
CICD Runners basics, setting up self hosted runners , tagging runners, runner setting for number of jobs, timeout, etc
Optimising configuration. Inheriting yaml from other projects and reusing template jobs, reducing redundancy. Usage of Extends and Include concepts.
Industry examples like linting, unit testing, end to end testing of projects for making sure that the project is stable
Managing multi repo CICD with downstream pipelines. Calrity on parent-child and multi-project pipelines.

Requirements
Need to have curiosity to undesrand CICD concepts and eagerness to try them out yourself. You will learn only if you do it yourself and when you see the green tick in GitLab CICD This course provides an in-depth understanding of various topics around CICD for you to develop efficient pipelines for your projects. The course starts with basics about CICD and then covers topics that are needed for typical industrial applications. Many of the jobs explained here can be simply copy-pasted to your projects to serve the purpose, for other jobs you will be expert enough to implement them yourself with the understanding of various concepts for creating jobs. The related code will be available for your reference.     Industrial examples are covered so that you will get an introduction to typical CICD jobs and their relevance in making projects stable and deployments or delivery fast. You should try out these examples in order to truly master it.       My policy is to make things simple and always have simple examples on each topic for a quick understanding of the concept and then build on top of it as we progress. CICD is a blessing when it comes to ensuring code stability, I will be covering how to set up tests such that this code stability is achieved. There are a lot of videos on YouTube as well on topics covered here, but most likely you will be on top of it by the time you have gone through this tutorial.      Every developer should master CICD, not only DevOps engineers so that everyone can contribute to code stability, quality of code, automating any repetitive jobs, and delivering in an agile fashion. There is a learning curve involved in understanding how to set up decent CICD for a complex project and this tutorial is intended to make this learning easier. Learn the best practices and apply them in your projects, it will help your organization and yourself in moving to the next level of development and delivery.      For further exploration of features, you can refer to the official documentation of GitLab. I will be covering how I typically start implementing a new challenging CICD job, avoiding complicated scripts as complicated jobs are hard to read and hard in maintaining as well, eventually leading to the removal of that job, wasting time and effort. Simple jobs are the key to maintainable configuration files.

Who this course is for
Developers who are planning to or already using CICD to widen their knowledge and simply reuse jobs covered in the tutorial
Beginners in programming to understand CICD concpets and familiarize with industrial use cases