Module 8: Best Practices
- Pipeline Optimization: Techniques for optimizing CI/CD pipeline performance.
- Efficiency Improvements: Improving pipeline efficiency using caching, parallelism, and artifacts.
- Failure Handling: Implementing retries and failure-handling strategies for robust pipelines.
- Modular Pipelines: Modularizing pipelines for easier maintenance and scalability.
- Includes: Centralizing and reusing configuration across multiple projects with include.
- Large Team Management: Best practices for managing complex pipelines in larger teams.
Module 7: Migration from Jenkins to GitLab
- Jenkins Groovy: Review key concepts for migrating from Jenkins to GitLab.
- Mapping to GitLab: Translate Jenkins Groovy steps into .gitlab-ci.yml syntax.
- Conditional Logic: Convert Jenkins Groovy if/else statements into GitLab’s rules: only and except.
- Declarative Pipelines: Adapt Jenkins declarative pipelines (stages and environment blocks) to GitLab's YAML format.
- Shared Libraries: Replace Jenkins shared libraries with GitLab templates and include files.
- Migration Best Practices: Ensure a smooth transition from Jenkins to GitLab with best practices and guidelines.
Module 6: Advanced Pipelines
- Parent-Child pipelines: Trigger and manage child pipelines with trigger.
- Dynamic Pipelines: Create pipelines dynamically using Jinja templates.
- Python Generation: Use Python scripts to automate pipeline creation and configuration.
- Nested Pipelines: Configure and manage complex workflows with include.
- Optimization: Improve pipeline performance and scalability with advanced techniques.
- CMDB in pipelines: Create dynamic pipelines using your Configuration Management Database.
Module 5: Containers
- Build containers: Automate Docker builds in GitLab CI/CD.
- Sign containers: Sign Docker images for integrity.
- Scan containers: Use security scanners to check for vulnerabilities.
- Multi-stage builds: Optimize container builds using multi-stage Dockerfiles.
- Push to registries: Automatically push images to DockerHub, GitLab Container
- Registry, etc.Container best practices: Apply best practices for secure container builds.