Cloud Native CI/CD with GitLab

Key Takeaways

This chapter was centered around managing and storing data in general whether they are sensitive or not. There are some important takeaways to keep in mind:

• GitLab provides predefined variables that can be used in your pipelines to get information about the pipeline, the job, the repository, and the environment.

• The predefined variables can be used to create dynamic and flexible pipelines.

• Secret data like API keys, passwords, and other sensitive information should never be hardcoded in the .gitlab-ci.yml file.

• GitLab provides a secure way to store secret and sensitive information using CI/CD variables at the project, group, or instance level.

• Multi-line values can be stored in GitLab variables using Base64 encoding.