Gitlab CI

Debug mode

Include this in the job definition inside gitlab-ci.yml:

variables:
  CI_DEBUG_TRACE: "true"

Gitlab "Auto Devops"

• Auto DevOps

• Auto Deploy

  • Auto Deploy CI template
  • auto-deploy-image
    • auto-deploy script
    • New auto-deploy-app helm chart

  • Deprecated: auto-deploy-app helm chart

    Deprecation Notice: GitLab is moving all development for auto-deploy-app into auto-deploy-image. Going forward, the auto-deploy-app Helm chart will be bundled with auto-deploy-image and will no longer released as a stand-alone Helm chart. Existing releases of auto-deploy-app will remain in GitLab's chart registry.

  • Auto Devops gitlab-ci.yml

Teraform integration

• Terraform integration in merge requests
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/terraform-images
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Terraform/Base.latest.gitlab-ci.yml

Golang cacheing

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/caching/#caching-go-dependencies

Run CI locally

• gitlab-ci-local
  • Run gitlab pipelines locally as shell executor or docker executor.

Matrix builds

• parallel:matrix docs
• Efficient pipelines in GitLab CI/CD: Parallel Matrix Builds + !reference

Issues:

• FR: dependencies for matrix artifacts
  • Ugly workaround

Run job only if artifact exists

• Run job only if artifact exists

CI Components

Mirror Gitlab groups/projects

• to-be-continuous/gitlab-sync

  This project allows to recursively copy/synchronize the to be continuous project from gitlab.com to your self-managed GitLab instance.

  • Uses the image built with to-be-continuous/gitlab-cp

    This project provides a CLI tool able to recursively copy/synchronize a GitLab group from one GitLab server to another."