Gitlab CI pipeline tutorial for beginners

[@pepin55i5]

thank you very much, i didn't know where to start, and like almost always wecan easily drown in the official documentation ... a quick exemple like this is really nice !

[@leeritenour]

Great video! One thing that I would suggest is to make a different job name from the stage name so the new beginner won't get confused in the first place. Thanks for the good work!

[@vdespa]

Yes. That is a good suggestion. Thank you for pointing it out.

[@geetanjalibharambe694]

Really a nice video for the beginners like me. And i also had same suggestion. Keep different names so that it will be more helpful and easier to understand. Thanks.

[@far-red]

im trying to make this work with an ASP.NET MVC to run of my local 'git runner', however this is the first time that such builds works thanks... giving me confidence to explore further..

[@vdespa]

Good luck in getting this to run! 💪

[@chitizshrestha9846]

Thanks for the tutorial, I am wondering whether you can do some of tutorial highlighting different mode of a runner (shell, docker, ssh etc.. ), It will be very helpful. Regards,

[@EdRandall66]

Got me going, thankyou. Next hurdle, to understand different types of Runner, how to choose the right one and build using mvn.

[@vdespa]

I am glad this helped. I would suggest starting with the Docker runner.

[@babakmaraghechi2040]

As they say in German "short but crisp". Good job! Thank you!

[@vdespa]

Thanks, Babak!

[@prasannapadmanabhan423]

Excellent demonstration of a Simple Gitlab CI Pipeline. Thank you very much.

[@vdespa]

Glad it was helpful!

[@losoclub]

It's useful to give jobs and stages different names so conceptually it's easier to understand, even if your job is "build_job" it clearly marks it as something different from the build stage.

[@SuperMakoto13]

Good intro to GitLab CI

[@vdespa]

I am glad it was helpful, Paul!

[@AntJac-p5s]

Good video! Simple and clear explanation. I am shocked to see that this simple pipeline took 4:25 to complete though! :O

[@vdespa]

You are welcome. Thank you for leaving a comment.

[@simon_sysadmin]

Great tuto, tnxs

[@vdespa]

Thank you! I appreciate that.

[@cizzlen07]

Awesome stuff. I really like Gitlab source control over the rest. Smooth easy and functional. Thanks for the tutorial!

[@vdespa]

Thank you! I like GitLab as well.

[@ЕлизаветаВиноградова-с3г]

Thank u so much for this guide! It coud be better if u tell about this commands and how it works :)

[@vdespa]

Thanks 👍 I went into more details on this on my GitLab course. Maybe this would be something for you.

[@eugene_zah]

Hi, @Valentin Despa. Thanks for your helpful video. Could you, please, shoot some videos about gitlab api and how to use it correctly?

[@vdespa]

Hi Eugene. Thanks for your comment. What would you like to do with the GitLab API. Can you give me an example?

[@arockdurai5110]

Simple and easy to follow. Excellent presentation

[@vdespa]

Thank you, Arock!

[@divyakasturi3770]

This is great for an amateur!

[@vdespa]

Thanks

[@davidhiggzmusic]

Thank you! Easy and simple Tutorial, way better then the original documentation :)

[@vdespa]

Thanks. I am glad it was useful.

[@sukhendra100]

Thanks Valentin. Very helpful.

[@vdespa]

Glad it was helpful!

[@VicenteMartinsvm]

Thnx a lot! I was searching a basic guide how to config autodevops and your explanation help me a lot. Thankyou!

[@VicenteMartinsvm]

@@vdespa we work with web development in general. I did the config to a project using Laravel.

[@BrandingChangeYep]

Good tutorial, maybe one thing would be to let people know you're going to be making an example that fails initially. At first I thought I did something wrong and wasted time checking around gitlab to see what happened.

[@vdespa]

Thanks Ryan. In real life scenarios, you don't know if sometimes will work or fail. But I understood you point.

[@mihailkatsarov3209]

Great tutorial and really great job Valentin!

[@vdespa]

Thank you so much, Mihail. I appreciate you leaving this comment.

[@malayaleeking]

Sick tutorial bro! Thanks 👍

[@vdespa]

No problem 👍

[@jacksonwang9308]

Very nice and clean demo for beginners😀

[@vdespa]

Glad you liked it!

[@abreurodrigo]

Great video buddy, thanks!

[@vdespa]

You are welcome! Thank you for your comment.

[@mateomotriz]

well first things first, absolutely great video i'm a beginner in the CI world and I've been documenting myself for several days now, but it's pretty dense; just one question, we didn't write any piece of code to select the image (which i understand as the docker 'file' we are using), so i assume gitlab is smart enough to use one of its shared runners right? which one would it be? thanks a lot

[@vdespa]

Great question, Mateo! On Gitlab.com, any job (if not configured differently) will use one of the Gitlab.com shared runners. The shared runner will get the Docker image specified from the public Docker repository (Dockerhub). This is why no code is needed. Even with other Docker runners, this will work the same. Does this clarify your concern?

[@mateomotriz]

@@vdespa yes, thanks a lot! but now i have another concern (dont kill me): i checked it and in my case the runner used the Ruby 2.5 docker image to build our yaml; i'm planning on trying to implement ci in three different projects (arduino/c++, vhdl, c), would these image features be enough to test my code with ci? sorry if i dont concrete more, but as i said im a total beginner and you are helping me a lot :p

[@vdespa]

@@mateomotriz Hi Mateo. Typically the Ruby 2.5 is the default docker image for the runners. You can specify any Docker image you need. Please refer to my Gitlab CI course which will most likely answer all your questions. Thanks.

[@mateomotriz]

@@vdespa thanks a lot!

[@НиколайСладкий-н4к]

Thank you so much, now I understand the artifacts was for.

[@issadevs]

Great tutorial! Advancing it will be very helpful! Thank you!

[@cesarniyomugabo3097]

Good Job! Thank you!

[@vdespa]

Thanks 👍

[@CatherineKarena]

Valentin, you really do have an awesome collection of useful, practical and informative videos

[@megatron741]

Great tutorial. Easy to understand for beginners.

[@JeanSergeGagnon]

Thanks for great tutorial for beginners! What tools do you use to add arrows and zoom in while talking?

[@vdespa]

Thank you for your appreciation! These effects are added in post-production. In macOS you can simply zoom in with cmd + touchpad. You can add arrows or draw with a tool like DemoPro.

[@rahulpandey6582]

such a nice start for gitlab!! thanks

[@FelipeBarbosaGoogle]

Thanks for the great tutorial

[@vdespa]

You are welcome! Thanks for commenting.

[@sten6393]

Very helpful video, I would like to see more about GitLab CI/CD tutorials from you!

[@sten6393]

Nice to hear, I plan to use GitLab for developing HTML, CSS, JavaScript and also PHP websites. And that it get pushed to a test to docker with every commitment that happens.

[@huynhthanh5207]

Thanks for sharing. It's useful for me.

[@FanousHani]

Good Tutorial Thanks!

[@vdespa]

I am glad it was helpful.

[@dingadong13]

Very helpful and concise tutorial. Thanks!

[@uimarshall6012]

Great work!

[@hosseinsafari4319]

Thanks a lot, you are amazing

[@vdespa]

Thanks for watching.

[@ArtemMELNYK]

Well done! This is a good explanation.

[@vdespa]

Glad you think so! Thanks for commenting.

[@recepozturk6711]

Thank you man.

[@vdespa]

You are welcome!

[@musicpitran6320]

That's amazing. You bring me to GitLab CI world by a wonderful video. Thank you so much :P

[@MindfulnessCoachJagdishAhir]

nice for start thanks

[@vdespa]

You're welcome. Let me know what else to cover about Gitlab.

[@eyalpery8470]

Very clear explanation ! Thank you!

[@lakkireddysrinivasareddy6689]

Good for very new guys, thank you

[@praseebkdas25]

Can you prepare a video to enable Gitlab Pages in CE 14.5.0 in a fresh setup, it will be really helpful. ( docker or standalone setup anything is fine)

[@vdespa]

Thank you for you suggestion! I will look into that.

[@rajiv0885]

Great video!.. Thanks for Sharing. Is there any video which gives end to end process of integrating Jmeter to Gitlab ? If so could you please share.

[@shokhrukhabduahadov3985]

Thank you good intro! Is there any more advanced examples?

[@shokhrukhabduahadov3985]

@@vdespa bro i dont have money to pay for course

[@koolresearcher]

can you please make same think with specific runner? otherwise create a specific runner with same job. looking to hear from you.

[@DhrumilSoni812]

Thanks for sharing knowledge..!!

[@raghudatta94]

Thanks you made my day!!

[@ojitelikenechukwu3895]

Very helpful....thanks a bunch

[@vdespa]

You are welcome. Thank you for leaving a comment.

[@duytuyeno5407]

Good video. Thank you

[@kickmenot2]

thanks for the "kiss"

[@nicdddd]

I found more questions like : "where are the directory build and the txtFile to find?" (default runner settings, default gitlab settings) And could not find any answer from @ValentinDespa. If you do not know, is allright, but pls tell us, in order not to hope to your ansere. Thank you

[@vdespa]

Hi, the main idea is that you should not care where they are. They are created inside a Docker container which is destroyed after the job is done. This is why, if you want to keep something, you publish this as artifacts.

[@artgilbert5182]

I had to setup a runner for my local installation of gitlab. It took 15 minutes. FYI to those running gitlab locally.

[@vdespa]

Thanks for letting me know.

[@thehumanchannel9004]

Amaziiing!

[@vdespa]

You are welcome. Thank you for leaving a comment.

[@FessAectan]

Thanks a lot! It was useful.

[@jeenaparadies]

Can you somehow share pipelines between components? For example most C++ components will have a cmake && make && make test structure and it wouldn't make sense to have copies of the pipelines en every git repo, but it would make sense to centrilize them.

[@TwoManArmyLP]

Thanks for the tutorial, however, any idea why the first job hangs on "pending" for me?

[@TwoManArmyLP]

@@vdespa yep figured that out already but forgot to edit my comment. Thanks for the reply anyway, great content, keep it up :)

[@rafaelmeirait]

Thanks for sharring!

[@БорисЮринов-ъ8ъ]

thanks

[@vdespa]

You are welcome!

[@akashshrestha01]

great

[@vdespa]

Thanks!

[@prasadreddy9579]

Hi, May I how can get the artifacts like application generated logs ?

[@copypaiste]

good one, thanks!

[@georgezviadgoglodze7810]

Good job

[@shanebowen97]

Valentin, how can you read in a file saved in your computer and use it in your pipeline? Thank you

[@shanebowen97]

@@vdespa Is there a method then that I can read that file in my .yml file?

[@shanebowen97]

@@vdespa It is just a simple python file that prints Hello World. I am just trying to test that file.

[@LarrySiden]

Hey, you didn’t tell us how to install and configure the Gitlab runner. That’s a crucial step. Maybe it’s in another video. I haven’t explored the channel yet.

[@vdespa]

Use the shared runners from GitLab. That is the easiest way to get started.

[@jimbrent8151]

Well done. Thank you.

[@kmlopxyz]

Does the image automatically pulled based on the project type? (e.g php, ruby, JavaScript)

[@DanielDogeanu]

Question: If you install something, via `npm install` or `apt-get`, do you have to remove those installing steps after you run your first job? Or does your pipeline image get regenerated every time it runs? I ask this question because I've seen it done on BitBucket, but it seems to fail on GitLab.

[@coronaupdates7289]

hey bro can u teach us that how to run jmeter test plan from gitlab pleas

[@RichardBuckerCodes]

gitlab is great... just not sure about security

[@AjeetSingh-ti2yg]

Hi Valentin, Thanks for shearing the video ..... I have one Question .... i am automation Tester (selenium ,core java)and i want to implement CI but i have big numbers of code with Framework, how i will create YAML file please help me out for this concern ,there is some other way to create YAML file? ..Thanks:) Ajeet

[@vdespa]

I am not sure I fully understand your question. You need to manually create the file for your projects.

[@AjeetSingh-ti2yg]

Do you have any video, how to create YAML file for complex automation testing project? Thanks 😊

[@vdespa]

@@AjeetSingh-ti2yg I recommend taking a look at my course outline. See the link in the video description.

[@kondareddyish]

learned something Thanks

[@SaMGoesHaM1]

Great tutorial! Do you by any chance know how to integrate Gitlab with Java? my .yml file is configured as below image: java:latest stages: - build - execute build: stage: build script: - echo "Building..." - javac src/Hello.java artifacts: paths: - src/ execute: stage: execute script: - echo "Executing..." - java src/Hello I am just uploading a project that says hello world. this program gives me the error that "could not find or load main class src.Hello". does anyone know what Im doing wrong?

[@vdespa]

Are you using maven or Gradle?

[@SaMGoesHaM1]

@@vdespa I didn't choose maven or gradle when i created my intellij project. It's a simple java default program without pom.xml or build.gradle

[@vdespa]

Make sure you have committed the Hello.java file and that you can see it inside the repository. Try ./src/Hello.java

[@rajaramesh8845]

HI, where does the build directory creates?

[@kosterix123]

next time take note of gotchas. Pause a bit longer on the working code (6:01). Otherwise good instruction.

[@Manlowkeysus]

so i need to host my webapp before running it in ci cd pipelines or gitlab need to be installed on same server !

[@Manlowkeysus]

@@vdespa no its a question in essence there are only 2000 push/trigger free for self hosted solution correct

[@SoloSyndicate]

Where do the stages actually run though? I assume these 'build' and 'test' stages are executing code locally in this example but in application this is likely to be done in different environments. How can you tell and configure where these stages run?

[@vdespa]

The pipeline runs in Docker containers. This has nothing to do with the environments where you deploy the application.

[@SoloSyndicate]

@@vdespa Thanks for the reply. But my question remains.. What are these containers? Does gitlab choose a vanilla linux distro container by default? What if I need a specific container image with dependencies for each stage?

[@vdespa]

@@SoloSyndicate Yes, they are Linux containers. You can specify one for each job. Have a look at my course, i think you could benefit from it.

[@marwanghabin8758]

could you please add deployment to kubernets in this udemy course ?

[@vdespa]

Thanks for your suggestion. I will look into this.

[@vineeshhjhj]

Thank you. Can you please make a video on how to run a test from Gitlab on BrowserStack cloud browsers?

[@nayanlakhwani2088]

How to configure .gitlab-ci.yml file in such a way that pipeline gets triggered only on push or merge to master branch? as of now it is getting triggered on any action to every branch.

[@vdespa]

You can use the only or expect modifier. See docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/yaml/#onlyexcept-basic

[@nayanlakhwani2088]

Thank you

[@TimRubel]

How do I publish the project?

[@darronbrown2119]

CI /CD option isn't available in my GitLad repo. Any suggestions?

[@raghur3424]

Hi,in Gitlab i have one stage Deploy i want to build login and push to ACR. how can we tag the latest image everytime i build an image it shld be get it a latest. can u tel me the command.

[@gibrankhan8232]

How does docker gets involved in this, i did not see any configuration or integration of Docker in this...please help

[@vdespa]

There is a default Docker image that is used.

[@vbessonow]

what test -f does? It is bash command? I can run test -f in the terminal, but nothing happends

[@vdespa]

Yes, test is a Linux command/tool. See linux.die.net/man/1/test

[@peytonhanel7059]

When mkdir build is called, where does that directory go? It is not in the rest of my files on gitlab.

[@peytonhanel7059]

@@vdespa yes, thank you.

[@peytonhanel7059]

@Shawn Thank you

[@duytuyeno5407]

How can i deploy Gitlab CI/CD with Jenkins ? Do you have guideline ?

[@duytuyeno5407]

@@vdespa i mean we have once Jenkins server to do build,test,deploy applications with Gitlab, so how can i do it ?

[@Anshulmishra160]

Please post Gitlab ci for AWS also for code deploy

[@hrudhayd9095]

@@vdespa Can we Deploy the build after testing into environments created on AWS?

[@hozzer]

@@hrudhayd9095 That would be so helpful

[@rimjhim4278]

where is the folder "buiild" create ? I could not find it in the repo

[@vdespa]

Why are you learning GitLab CI? Write a comment below and let me know.

[@davidchalon5466]

Hi super starting demo. Have you infos to create jobs on self hosted gitlab (testing in demo vm currently) for sysadmin bash shell scripts. I have only à Shell-runner with shellcheck command now and no other test, nor CD tasks. Wanna go further to make a demo to other admins and some "dev" that near even't don't use basic git or issue management...

[@davidchalon5466]

@@vdespa i start to use gitlab for shell scripts only currently. (bash), because i don't do dev in other langages now. I have find only 1 task in ci : shellcheck, a linter. I'm looking for more tasks to add, in CI or CD, with this case. Goal : see if i can have more helping tools, even on simple admin shell scripts. And to make a demo for other users and try convince them to try gitlab, even for small internal projects

[@davidchalon5466]

Where i am, there is. Many People coding small to medium codes, but without développer methods. Even sometimes without vcs or Issue.... I thnik i could help them

[@ichrakzouari5171]

thanks for the tuto but I have an error '' Pulling docker image gitlab/gitlab-runner-helper:x86_64-7f7a4bb0-servercore2004'' failed can you help me please ?

[@vdespa]

I recommend using GitLab.com and their shared runners if you are just getting started with pipelines.

[@marcelbrode3837]

I thought it was a tutorial, but at the end of the video, the music told me its a kickstarter project

[@vdespa]

🤷‍♂️

[@YamiSuzume]

@@vdespa :D

[@tanvirahmedsiddique1651]

can you upload the .yml file in the description?

[@tanvirahmedsiddique1651]

@@vdespa thanks for the file, can you give us the idea of how to write .yml file for more complex projects please?

[@tanvirahmedsiddique1651]

@@vdespa such as a python project or a .net project.

[@tanvirahmedsiddique1651]

@@vdespa if you do then please share the link here.

what if you want 2 pipelines?

@@vdespa yep figured it out, i have a script for the jenkins pipeline, and a new one for a sonarQ job.

[@StEvUgnIn]

I can't get any runner to work... I am on my school's gitlab and we have one shared runner that won't work...

[@vdespa]

If you are just learning GitLab CI, use the shared runners that GitLab.com offers.

[@BrunoCostaDeMatos]

Valentin you know resolve this error? mesg: ttyname failed: Inappropriate ioctl for device bash: line 55: export: `1=yes': not a valid identifier ERROR: Job failed: exit status 1

[@BrunoCostaDeMatos]

@@vdespa okay, I'll try to figure it out for myself. Thanks for the video.