GitLab pipelines

CI/CD pipelines are the fundamental component of GitLab CI/CD. Pipelines are configured in a .gitlab-ci.yml file by using YAML keywords.

🌐 CI/CD pipelines

Pipeline code

🌐 CI/CD YAML syntax reference

Features

• Components
• Services

Pipeline types

• Basic pipelines
• Merge request pipelines
• Merged results pipelines
• Merge trains
• Parent-child pipelines
• Multi-project pipelines

Best practices

🌐 CI/CD development guidelines

Pipeline code quality

• Principles (DRY, KISS SOLID, YAGNI)
• Optimize configuration files
  • Anchors
  • extends
  • !reference
• Use configuration from other files
  • include

Performance

• Caching

Support

• Debugging CI/CD pipelines
• Run a pipeline locally

Examples

• GitLab pipeline (.gitlab-ci.yml, .gitlab/ci)