gitlab.md

References

• Upgrade tool

My Installation

See https://about.gitlab.com/install/#ubuntu

Minimum KVM Settings

4 Cores x 8GB

Docs

• Tutorial: Create and run your first GitLab CI/CD pipeline

CI References

• Variables and predefined variables
• Push Options

Python Packages

• Create a PyPi Package
• PyPI packages in the package registry

Blogs & Videos

• What Happens on GitLab When You do git push?

Python Private Packages

• Creating Own PyPI Server in Gitlab for Serving Private Packages - Nov 2024
• How to Import Private Python Packages with pipenv and Gitlab

Ansible

• How to automate your DevOps using GitLab CI/CD + Docker + Ansible - April 2022
• GitLab E2E Pipeline — Logger Application+ELK Stack Deployment Using Terraform+Ansible on AWS
• Automating Patching Activity Using Ansible & GitLab CI
• Ansible CICD pipeline with GitLab - Jan 2020

Terraform

• Create CI/CD Pipelines for Terraform in GitLab - Oct 2022
• Staying DRY Using Terraform Workspaces with GitLab-CI
• Terraform Gitlab CI/CD Pipeline - Aug 2019
• Manage Terraform With GitLab CI - Mar 2019
• Terraform Pipelines in GitLab - 2018
• Terraform Automation with GitLab & AWS - 2018
• How to Govern Terraform States Using GitLab Enterprise

Also see Gitlab Terraform Images and GitLab CI template for Terraform

CI Configuration

This uses tags and specifies a docker image

NOTE tags are specified in each stage not for the entire .yml file

See https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/variables/ and https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/ and https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#needs

variables:
  REGION: us-east-2
image: debian
before_script:
  - echo "Before script section"
  - echo "For example you might run an update here or install a build dependency"
  - echo "Or perhaps you might print out some debugging details"

after_script:
  - echo "After script section"
  - echo "For example you might do some cleanup here"

build:
  stage: build
  tags:
    - docker
  script:
    - echo "Do your build here"
    - export

test:
  stage: test
  tags:
    - arm64
  script:
    - echo "Do a test here"
    - echo "For example run a test suite"

Runners

• https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/runners/README.html
• https://gitlab-runner-downloads.s3.amazonaws.com/latest/index.html

Self Hosting Junk

• 2 vCPUs and 8GB RAM is minimum resources

Save the stuff in /etc/gitlab after the initial install

root@gitlab16:/etc/gitlab# ls
gitlab-secrets.json  gitlab.rb  initial_root_password  trusted-certs