Gitlab CI/CD

memyselfandi · 15 Sep 2019 at 10:01

Anyone know of any good training materials for creating pipelines in Gitlab (other than the official docs)?

Need to move some existing automation into some at work and unfortunately the person who I would talk to about it works in a different country and is leaving the company before I can really go through things with him. This means whilst I will be able to look at the existing pipelines for other things I won't really have anyone who can answer questions on them (we won't go into how I've been blocked for working on this for weeks due to other *********).

Azza · 15 Sep 2019 at 11:31

I've only gone through it briefly with the official docs which seemed pretty comprehensive.

What are you moving from? It should be easy enough to 'translate' one CIs .yaml config to another.

memyselfandi · 15 Sep 2019 at 11:38

Current automation is not in a pipeline att all, it's a combination of Ansible and shell scripts (for the bits which require some logic which isn't really covered by Ansible)

nicho12 · 16 Sep 2019 at 12:03

I'd be interested if you come across something that helps.

opethdisciple · 16 Sep 2019 at 12:59

Same here. We use Gitlab CI/CD at work and I know only the very basics. Not much material out there either other than the official docs.

Cromulent · 16 Sep 2019 at 17:26

I've used Gitlab CI/CD with a Django project written in Python using Selenium to do live browser testing and the official Python unit testing framework for other unit tests. It works well although if it is a private repo and you don't pay, then you might end up running out of CI/CD minutes.

Azza · 16 Sep 2019 at 18:25

memyselfandi said:
Current automation is not in a pipeline att all, it's a combination of Ansible and shell scripts (for the bits which require some logic which isn't really covered by Ansible)

Oh right I see. What language is your app built in?

memyselfandi · 17 Sep 2019 at 07:20

Like I said its ansible (so YAML) and shell scripts. Together these combine to deploy new data files (pulled from a remote webserver) to various levels of systems after taking the system being updated out of its load balancer (making sure that the minimum levels are maintained in it).