A step-by-step, practical guide that helps to automate the build, test, security scanning, packaging, and deployment steps of your product's software development lifecycle using GitLab CI/CD pipelines Key Features * Unleash the power of GitLab CI/CD pipelines at every stage of your software development lifecycle * Learn how GitLab makes Git easier to use and more powerful when committing and reviewing code * Cement your understanding with hands-on tutorials and extensive self-assessment exercises * Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free eBook in the PDF format Book Description Developers and release engineers understand the high stakes involved with building, packaging, and deploying code correctly. Ensuring that your code is functionally correct, fast, and secure is a time-consuming and complex task. This can be done efficiently and effectively using GitLab CI/CD pipelines. This book begins with the basics of Git and GitLab, showing how to commit and review code. It explains how to set up GitLab Runners for executing and autoscaling CI/CD pipelines. You'll learn how to create and configure pipelines for many software development lifecycle steps. You'll discover where to find pipeline results in GitLab, and how to interpret those results. You'll learn how to deploy code to different environments, advanced CI/CD pipeline features such as connecting GitLab to a Kubernetes cluster and using GitLab with Terraform, how to trigger pipelines and improve pipeline performance, and how to use best practices and troubleshooting tips for uncooperative pipelines. In-text examples, use cases, and self-assessments reinforce the important CI/CD, GitLab, and Git concepts, and help you prepare for interviews and certification exams related to GitLab. By the end of this book, you'll be able to use GitLab to build CI/CD pipelines that automate all the DevOps steps needed to build and deploy high-quality, secure code. What you will learn * Gain insights into essentials of Git, GitLab, and DevOps * Understand how to create, view, and run GitLab CI/CD pipelines * Know how to verify, secure, and deploy code with GitLab CI/CD pipelines * Configure and use GitLab Runners to execute CI/CD pipelines * Explore advanced GitLab CI/CD pipeline features like DAGs and conditional logic * Follow best practices and troubleshoot GitLab CI/CD pipelines * Implement end-to-end software development lifecycle workflow with examples Who This Book Is For This book is intended for DevOps/DevSecOps engineers, application developers, release engineers, quality assurance engineers, security engineers, SREs, and sysadmins who want to implement fast, secure and automated software development lifecycle tasks using continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines in GitLab. A basic knowledge of the major stages of the software development life cycle and DevOps processes will be helpful when reading this book.