GitLab CI/CD: Pipelines, CI/CD and DevOps for Beginners

Learn GitLab CI/CD from a GitLab Hero. Obtain valuable DevOps skills. Build pipelines and Deploy to AWS.

Created by: Valentin Despa
Postman Supernova • GitLab Hero • AWS Community Builder

Created by: Valentin Despa - Support
Agile software developer

What Will I Learn?

• What is a pipeline
• What is Continuous Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD) and Continuous Deployment (CD)
• Automate your build, test & deployment with Gitlab CI
• Learn industry "best practices" in building CI/CD pipelines
• Demonstrate your understanding of building CI/CD pipelines to future employers
• Automate your builds, tests, and deployments
• Automatic deployments using AWS
• Build pipelines with code quality checks, unit tests, API testing
• Solve problems with hands-on assignments
• Create Merge Requests and review code
• Dynamic environments

Requirements

• Registering for a GitLab .com account (the free plan works very well)
• Verifying your GitLab .com account by text message by providing a phone number.
• Git basics (like configuring a repository locally, cloning, merge, commit, push)
• Basic experience with Linux, Linux commands and using the terminal
• Admin permissions that allow you to install additional tools (Node, npm, Docker)
• Optional: Installing Visual Studio Code
• Optional: Basic experience with Docker

Target audience

• Software developers learning to build pipelines in order to test & deploy code
• Solutions architects
• Application Architects
• Infrastructure Architects
• IT Operations