Cloud Native CI/CD with GitLab

Key Takeaways

In this chapter, we learned the basic concepts of CI/CD and how to create a simple CI pipeline using GitLab CI/CD. We created a pipeline that builds the code and runs unit tests using Python's unittest framework and Flake8 for code linting. We also learned how to read and understand the execution logs of a CI job.

We are going to dive deeper into the different concepts of GitLab CI/CD in the next sections but here are a few concepts to take away:

• CI/CD is a practice that encourages developers to integrate their code into a shared repository multiple times a day.

• Each integration is verified by an automated job that runs a pipeline of tasks.

• A pipeline is defined in a YAML file named .gitlab-ci.yml in the root of the project.