Ultimate GitLab CI/CD Course: Mastering DevOps Pipeline['23]

Explore core GitLab features, from planning with boards and stories to creating repositories, merge requests, and main vs feature branches, then manage container registries and the CI/CD pipeline.

Decide the application and architecture, then test locally. Containerize with Docker, write a Dockerfile, build the image, and run it on your laptop before pushing to GitLab for CI/CD.

Dockerize an MkDocs documentation site by creating a Dockerfile and a docs directory with index.md and mkdocs.yaml. Configure MkDocs with the material plugin and run it on port 8000.

Push your locally built docker images to Docker Hub by logging in, tagging with your Docker Hub username, and then pushing with docker push using the latest tag.

Recap how we created a GitLab module for an mkdocs app, added a Dockerfile, built and deployed the image as a local container, and pushed it to Docker Hub.

Create and sync a local codebase to a GitLab project, then run your first pipeline. Explore secret management, multi-stage pipelines, stages and jobs, and GitLab container registry.

Push your local code to a new GitLab project, set up SSH authentication, initialize the repository, commit changes, and push to master or main to enable a yaml pipeline later.

Learn to set up a GitLab CI pipeline by creating a root gitlab-ci.yml, define a build stage with docker in docker, run docker build, and push to trigger the pipeline.

Demonstrate how to convert a single stage pipeline into a multi-stage GitLab CI/CD workflow with build, tag, and push stages, using docker login, build, tag, and push steps.

Push images through a multi-stage pipeline using the GitLab container registry, inbuilt in GitLab, leveraging built-in variables and Docker login to publish to the registry.

Master Terraform to create AWS infrastructure, deploy AWS ECR, and authenticate AWS with GitLab to enable CI/CD, with conditional rules and needs, reusable Bash scripts, and nested pipelines.

Write Terraform code to create an AWS ECR repository, enable image scanning, apply a public policy, and output the repository URL for use in GitLab CI/CD pipelines.

Use needs and rules in GitLab pipelines to trigger deployments on infra changes, specifically in the ECR folder, and demonstrate automated ECR creation with a shell script to run steps.

Convert a crowded GitLab pipeline into a clean, reusable shell script and call it from your pipeline to automate aws terraform init, plan, apply, and destroy across a defined directory.

Learn to leverage GitLab's predefined templates and include feature to deploy infrastructure with Terraform, using init, plan, apply, and deploy stages to automate AWS resources.

Deploy AWS EKS infrastructure via a GitLab CI/CD pipeline, including an ECS cluster, ECR, and Kubernetes deployment, using Terraform plan and apply, and manage multi-component infrastructure within the pipeline.

Troubleshoot EKS deployment in a GitLab pipeline by extending the terraform build for ECR and X, using GUI edits, and TF_ROOT variables to ensure resources deploy.