GitLab CI/CD Training

Overview

This class explains what Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines are and what value they bring to the software development lifecycle. It also outlines the architecture behind GitLab's CI/CD pipelines and explains how to set up basic CI/CD pipelines in your own projects. Finally, it touches on a handful of specific CI/CD pipeline use cases, including pushing your app to a Docker Container registry and using one of GitLab's security scanners.

GitLab CI/CD Training covers some features that are available in all three GitLab pricing tiers (Free, Premium, and Ultimate), some features that are only available in Premium and Ultimate, and a small number of features that are only available in Ultimate.

Target Audience

Development teams, quality assurance teams, release engineers
Prerequisite knowledge
- Topics covered in the GitLab with Git Fundamentals course or equivalent experience with Git and GitLab
- This course is not appropriate for students with no Git or GitLab knowledge

What’s Included

Live training sessions delivered by a GitLab technical trainer
Lecture with demonstrations
Hands-on labs
Slides with notes and reference links

Price

Remote: $5,000
At your site: $7,000 plus travel expenses for each instructor

Duration

Remote: Delivered in a single day, including 1-hour break for lunch.
On-site: Delivered in a single day, including 1-hour break for lunch.

Class Size

Maximum 12 attendees. Order this seat add-on to increase total seats per class.

Course Syllabus

Part 1

Duration	Topic	Overview
30 mins	GitLab Overview & Flow	What is GitLab Today's Software Delivery Landscape GitLab Workflow & Example What is CI/CD GitLab's CI/CD Workflow Why Use CI/CD Dogfooding: Building GitLab with GitLab Demo/Lab: Review a Sample CI/CD Section
1 hr	CI/CD Pipeline Architecture and Runners	Configuration File & GitLab Runners Runner Architecture Runner Characteristics & Types Runner Options Runner Executors Demo/Lab: Register a GitLab Runner for a simple pipeline
30 mins	Anatomy of a Pipeline	Anatomy of a CI/CD Pipeline Basic Pipeline Builds Directed Acyclic Graph Pipelines Child and Parent Pipelines GitLab Pipeline Graph Basic Keywords: Definitions & Examples .gitlab-ci.yml Example Demo/Lab: Create a Basic CI/CD Configuration Demo/Lab: Display Environment Variables in a Pipeline
45 mins	Advanced Keywords & DRY	Advanced Keywords Writing Maintainable CI/CD Configuration Files

Part 2

Duration	Topic	Overview
1 hr	Variable Precedence & Scoping	Microlearning Game: Reviewing Day 1 Variable Scope & Priority Lab: Variable Hierarchy
30 mins	Job Policy Patterns	Lab: Job Policy Pattern Microlearning Game: Pipeline Review
30 mins	Artifacts and Dependencies	Lab: Using Artifacts
45 mins	Registry & Deployments	What are Package & Container Registries? Lab: GitLab Docker Registry
1 hr	Security Scanning OR Code Quality Scanning (student choice)	Lab: Enabling Security Scanning OR Code Quality Scanning (student choice)

Download the syllabus

System Requirements

Computer with internet access and Git installed, per the requirements specified here.

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