GitLab Quick Start Guide

Port projects over from GitHub and convert SVN projects to GitLab hosted git projects

Key Features

• Effective guide for GitLab migration from GitHub and SVN
• Learn to implement DevOps with GitLab 11
• Manage projects with issue boards and time tracking

Book Description

Gitlab is an open source repository management and version control toolkit with an enterprise offering. This book is the ideal guide to GitLab as a version control system (VCS), issue management tool, and a continuous integration platform.

The book starts with an introduction to GitLab, a walkthrough of its features, and explores concepts such as version control systems, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It then takes you through the process of downloading and installing a local copy of the on-premise version of GitLab in Ubuntu and/or CentOS.

You will look at some common work?ows associated with GitLab work?ow and learn about project management in GitLab. You will see tools and techniques for migrating your code base from various version control systems such as GitHub and SVN to GitLab.

By the end of the book, you will be using Gitlab for repository management, and be able to migrate projects from other VCSs to GitLab.

What you will learn

• Set up CI and test builds for your projects
• Understand the benefits and limitations of GitLab work?ow
• Migrate from other common VCS platforms to Gitlab
• Create, review, and merge code changes
• Learn to branch local code and create a new branch in GitLab
• Configure sequential stages and simultaneous stages for CI/CD
• Access Mattermost for on-premise GitLab
• Discover the issue tracking features of GitLab

Who this book is for

The book is intended for the developers, SREs, and DevOps professionals who are looking for techniques to port their codebase to GitLab from GitHub or are looking to work with GitLab as their version control system of choice. If you've used other VCSs before, that will help with this book.

Table of Contents

1. Introducing GitLab
2. Setting Up GitLab
3. GitLab Flow
4. Issues to Merge Requests
5. Continuous Integration And Continuous Deployment
6. Porting from GitHub or Subversion (SVN)
7. Advanced And Paid Features

Adam O'Grady hails from the remote Perth, Western Australia, and can usually be found on Twitter at @adamjogrady or in meatspace wrangling with code.

His first taste of programming came from building games into graphics calculators at high school, and quickly developed into a passion. A few years later, while doing social media marketing for an ISP, his first big break arrived; building custom applications to monitor and respond to social feeds.

After that, he spent a few years working for the government building systems that used satellite and geographic data to spot and predict bushfires, and now you can find him leading a small team of engineering mavens at a local health start-up.