This guide shows how to configure KubeSphere’s multi‑tenant authentication by integrating Dex as an OIDC provider with GitLab, covering Dex installation via Helm, customizing values, updating KubeSphere’s cluster configuration, and verifying the new “Login via Dex” flow.
This guide explains how to upload build artifacts to external repositories such as Nexus and GitLab's built‑in package registry, covering authentication methods, required API parameters, curl commands for uploading and downloading packages, and CI/CD pipeline examples for Java projects.
This article details a structured GitLab CI/CD setup using job templates for build, test, code analysis, artifact handling, and Kubernetes deployment, combined with a default-pipeline.yml that defines includes, global variables, workflow rules, stages, and environment‑specific deployment configurations for Java applications.
This guide demonstrates how to integrate GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm to achieve fully automated, environment‑specific deployments for Spring Boot backend services and Vue.js front‑end applications, covering configuration files, pipeline scripts, credential setup, and webhook integration for seamless CI/CD across development, testing, and production.
This guide explains Jira's planning and tracking features, provides step‑by‑step instructions for installing the Data Center version, details initial configuration, demonstrates project and module creation, and shows how to integrate Jira with Jenkins and GitLab for automated CI/CD workflows.
This guide explains how to set up SonarQube and Sonar‑scanner for static code analysis, run the scanner with project parameters, install the Sonar‑GitLab plugin, configure commit‑status integration, and use the resulting GitLab commit status to enforce merge‑request policies based on pipeline outcomes.
GitLab’s IPO on the Nasdaq raised $6.5 billion at $77 per share, surged 35% on debut to $103.89, and highlighted the company’s rapid growth, strong net‑revenue‑retention of 152%, and its ambition to become the world’s most transparent public DevOps platform.
This roundup covers GitLab's 35% Nasdaq debut surge, LinkedIn's planned shutdown of its Chinese platform, the release of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 5 and RC, a Delta Lake guide preview, findings from a cloud‑native security micro‑survey, a second‑edition service mesh guide, and a recommended cloud‑native training course.
GitLab debuted on Nasdaq under the ticker GTLB, soaring 35% on its first day and valuing the open‑source DevOps platform at $14.9 billion, while its remote‑first culture, subscription pricing, rapid revenue growth, and competitive stance against GitHub highlight its expanding influence in software development.
This guide explains how to upload build artifacts to external repositories by using Nexus API for Maven artifacts and GitLab's generic package registry, covering authentication methods, required parameters, curl commands, and CI/CD job examples for automated publishing.
This article explains how GitLab CI/CD can be used to run continuous integration, trigger downstream pipelines across multiple projects, pass variables and specify branches, with practical code examples for microservice‑based architectures and guidance on pipeline visualization and permissions.
This article explains how to configure protected environments and manual approval jobs in GitLab CI/CD pipelines to control production deployments, illustrates YAML examples for deployment protection and approval stages, and introduces GitOps concepts and their benefits for modern cloud‑native infrastructure management.
This guide explains how to create repository‑specific and global GitLab server hooks that validate commit messages against a custom pattern, showing step‑by‑step configuration, a Go pre‑receive script, and verification commands to ensure only properly formatted commits are accepted.
This article explains how to enforce changelog standards in GitLab by configuring server‑side Git hooks that validate commit messages, providing step‑by‑step instructions, environment setup, and both shell and Python script examples to automatically reject non‑conforming pushes.
This article introduces how to build a global code search system called 'Qianxun' from scratch, covering its background, architecture, core technologies, and future prospects.
This article demonstrates how to build CI and CD pipelines for microservices using Jenkins, GitLab webhooks, and GitOps, covering repository structures, pipeline stages, code snippets, and deployment automation with Helm, including environment configuration.
This guide explains how to install and configure the Jenkins Active Choice Parameter plugin, create Groovy scripts for dynamic build options, debug GitLab API calls with curl or Postman, and implement both basic and optimized Groovy code to retrieve project branches and tags using stored Jenkins credentials.
This tutorial explains how to use Jenkins to integrate command‑line tools and webhooks for automating GitLab branch creation, covering API discovery, Postman testing, pipeline scripting, credential handling, shared library implementation, and final system configuration.
A global cybersecurity firm replaced its fragmented cron‑based build, test, and deployment processes with an automated Jenkins CI/CD pipeline, integrating GitLab, Docker, and monitoring tools to achieve continuous delivery, visibility, and faster, reliable releases across multiple projects.
This guide walks you through safely stopping, removing, and reinstalling GitLab CE on a Linux server, covering dependency installation, configuration tweaks, port management, firewall settings, and essential GitLab commands for daily administration.
This article provides a detailed guide on implementing CI/CD pipelines for microservices using Jenkins, GitLab webhooks, and GitOps, covering repository setup, pipeline stages, code snippets for Jenkinsfiles, webhook configuration, image building, and deployment with Helm in a cloud‑native environment.
This guide walks through installing required tools, configuring Postfix, adding the GitLab repository, installing GitLab CE on a Kubernetes master, adjusting default ports in GitLab’s configuration files, reloading the setup, and accessing the service via a web browser.
This article explains how to build a complete MR/Push feedback loop that calculates incremental code coverage using GitLab webhooks, Jenkins pipelines, Jacoco reports, and SonarQube quality gates, enabling automated acceptance or rejection of code changes based on coverage thresholds.
This guide explains how to install SonarQube and Sonar‑scanner, configure scanning parameters, add the Sonar‑GitLab plugin, and use additional properties to link scan results to GitLab commit statuses, enabling pipeline‑based merge request control.
This article provides a step‑by‑step guide on upgrading GitLab versions, explains new CI/CD features in GitLab 13.8 such as exit‑code‑controlled job failures, rule‑based variables, Docker pull policies, artifact retention settings, predefined variables, and shows how to visualize pipeline configurations with code examples.
This article demonstrates how to build a CI pipeline, extend it with GitOps for environment updates, and create a CD pipeline using Jenkins, GitLab webhooks, Docker, Helm, and Kubernetes to automate the build, test, and deployment of multiple microservices.
This guide walks through installing GitLab CE on CentOS 8 via an RPM package, adjusting the gitlab.rb configuration, managing the GitLab service, testing access, and optionally connecting GitLab to an external PostgreSQL database running in Docker.
This article provides an in‑depth comparison of Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, examining their histories, core features, plugin ecosystems, scalability, community support, advantages, disadvantages, and selection criteria to help DevOps engineers choose the most suitable continuous integration and delivery platform for their projects.
This guide explains how to avoid code‑conflict and testing interference in large PHP projects by creating independent deployment branches using Docker, GitLab, and Jenkins, detailing the required tools, installation steps, container configuration, GitLab project setup, Jenkins job creation, and webhook integration.
In May 2020 GitLab partnered with OnGres to upgrade a 12‑node PostgreSQL 9.6 cluster to version 11, using a carefully planned pg_upgrade process, automated Ansible playbooks, Patroni HA, and a detailed rollback strategy to keep a 6 TB dataset consistent while serving 300 k transactions per second.
This article explains how GitLab uses the MR Rate metric to assess engineering productivity, outlines its definition, discusses the challenges of relying on a single metric, and presents four strategies—including improving iteration, setting KPIs, aligning OKRs, and empowering teams—to boost the MR Rate over time.
This article provides an in‑depth comparison of Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD, covering their histories, core features, strengths, weaknesses, and practical guidance to help DevOps teams choose the most suitable continuous integration and delivery platform for their specific project requirements.
This guide explains how to integrate Jira, GitLab, and Jenkins to automatically create feature branches for new issues, generate release branches, and manage merge requests in a micro‑service architecture, detailing the required webhook configuration, pipeline setup, and shared Groovy library functions.
This article details Youzan Retail's mobile continuous integration and delivery system, covering the background, challenges, architecture, packaging, distribution, compile and static checks, local Git hooks, code review workflow, messaging, and future improvements to streamline weekly releases for mobile teams.
This article provides a comprehensive overview of GitLab CI/CD, explaining continuous integration, delivery, and deployment concepts, detailing the .gitlab-ci.yml configuration, pipeline workflow, runner setup, Auto DevOps features, and includes practical code examples for building, testing, and deploying applications.
Recent misconfigurations in DevOps tools led to a massive leak of source code from dozens of major tech, finance, and manufacturing firms—including Microsoft, Adobe, Nintendo, and Lenovo—prompting security experts to warn of hard‑coded credentials, legal risks, and the urgent need for robust DevSecOps practices.
This article explains how GitLab’s parent‑child pipeline feature and dynamic pipeline generation can be used to split complex CI/CD workflows, manage monorepos, trigger separate Windows and Linux builds, and automate configuration with Ruby scripts, improving performance and maintainability.
This article explains how GitLab CI/CD can be configured to run cross‑project pipelines, trigger downstream jobs, specify branches, and pass variables, illustrating the process with code examples and visual pipeline diagrams for continuous integration.
This article explains how to use GitLab's protected environments and manual approval jobs to control production deployments, illustrating configuration examples, adding approval stages, and discussing the benefits of GitOps for secure, compliant CI/CD pipelines.
This article demonstrates how to extend a Jenkins CI/CD pipeline to communicate with external systems, specifically showing how to create a GitLab branch by researching the GitLab API, installing the HttpRequest plugin, handling credentials securely, and encapsulating HTTP calls in reusable Groovy functions.
This article provides a comprehensive guide to GitLab code review, covering environment setup, Git flow basics, review methods, configuration of approvals, templates, issue linking, Code Quality integration with CI/CD, step‑by‑step practice, and recommendations for choosing between Community and Enterprise editions.
This guide walks you through creating a dedicated GitLab account for Jenkins, generating and registering SSH keys, installing required GitLab plugins, configuring credentials and tokens, writing a Jenkins pipeline script, and automating deployment with password‑less SSH between servers.
The Chinese DevOps community evaluated three SaaS platforms—GitLab (free), Jira Cloud (free), and CODING (Tencent Cloud DevOps)—against requirements such as private repository collaboration, OKR management, Scrum planning, CI/CD pipelines, artifact storage, and cloud deployment, ultimately concluding that CODING offers the most suitable integrated solution.
This guide explains the fundamentals of Continuous Integration (CI), compares popular CI tools like Jenkins and GitLab CI, and provides detailed, cross‑platform instructions for installing Docker, setting up GitLab‑CI runners, configuring permissions, and registering runners with various token types for seamless automated builds.
This article provides a comprehensive, hands‑on tutorial for installing GitLab on a CentOS 7 server and via Docker, covering prerequisite setup, dependency installation, repository configuration, SSL handling, service startup, first‑login procedures, and common troubleshooting tips.
This guide explains how to set up Mattermost and integrate it with GitLab to enable ChatOps, covering concepts like NoOps, the DevOps lifecycle, detailed installation steps for Mattermost, MySQL, Nginx proxy configuration, webhook creation, slash command setup, and testing procedures.
This guide explains how to organize GitLab CI/CD job templates, define global variables, configure build, test, code analysis, artifact, and deployment stages, and integrate Kubernetes deployment and Docker image creation for Java applications, providing complete YAML examples and usage instructions.
To accelerate CI/CD pipelines, the article recommends using self‑hosted GitLab Runners on a private cloud for faster network access, caching build dependencies, employing lightweight Alpine images for jobs, and limiting job execution to changed files via the only:changes rule.
This article explains the shortcomings of the traditional software release process, introduces continuous integration, delivery, and deployment concepts, compares GitLab CI and Jenkins features, and outlines the advantages, architecture, and practical usage of CI/CD pipelines for DevOps teams.
This guide walks through setting up a complete development and automated deployment stack on a fresh CentOS server, using Docker with Laradock for PHP testing, GitLab for source control, and Jenkins for CI/CD, including detailed command examples, configuration parameters, and plugin setup.
This guide explains what LDAP is, why it simplifies account management for internal services such as GitLab, Confluence, JumpServer and OpenVPN, and provides step‑by‑step Docker‑based installation and configuration instructions, plus common troubleshooting tips.
This guide explains SonarQube's architecture, shows how to deploy it with Docker, and details configuration steps including forced login, LDAP integration, and GitLab authentication, providing code snippets and screenshots for a complete DevOps quality‑management setup.
This article presents a comprehensive practical guide on using GitLab's built‑in CI/CD features for microservice projects, covering pipeline, stage, job concepts, .gitlab-ci.yml configuration, runner installation, Docker image building, registry push, and deployment strategies, supplemented with code snippets and diagrams.
This article walks through step‑by‑step how to integrate Jenkins with LDAP, GitLab, and GitHub for unified authentication, covering preparation, plugin installation, configuration details, testing, and the final login experience, illustrated with screenshots.
A roundup of recent tech developments covering GitLab's hiring restrictions on Chinese staff, Huawei's massive R&D investment, the D language 2.089.0 release, Visual Studio Online launch, Ant Design and Electron updates, Edge Chromium preview, Tencent's facial payment initiative, and notable corporate moves by Microsoft Japan, Samsung, and others.
GitLab announced a "work country/region lock" that bars Chinese and Russian citizens from receiving offers and restricts employees with customer‑data access from relocating to those countries, sparking heated debate over open‑source non‑discrimination and geopolitical pressures.
This article explains how to integrate Jenkins with GitLab by using the HTTP Request plugin to send API calls, configure pipeline steps, and provides sample Groovy code and a summary of common GitLab API endpoints for operations such as project, branch, tag, and pipeline management.
This article outlines practical DevOps techniques for building Jenkins CI/CD pipelines triggered by GitLab webhooks, detailing both push‑triggered pipelines and merge‑request pipelines, including configuration steps, token handling, code quality checks, and notification mechanisms to streamline automated builds and reviews.
This guide explains how to adopt disciplined Git habits, use Git Flow branch models, configure SourceTree and GitLab, and follow a structured development process that covers committing, rebasing, merging, testing, releasing, and hot‑fixing for smooth team collaboration.
This guide details a step‑by‑step setup of a highly available GitLab service using two virtual machines, DRBD for block‑level replication, configuration of GitLab and PostgreSQL directories, DRBD resource creation, service start‑up, and manual primary‑secondary failover procedures.
This guide explains how to adopt solid Git habits, write meaningful commits, use interactive rebase, configure push and pull behavior, choose between merge and rebase, apply the Git Flow branching model, and set up SourceTree and GitLab for smooth team collaboration.
This guide explains how to configure SonarQube scan parameters to automatically include the current GitLab branch name and commit SHA, enabling detailed code‑quality reporting within CI pipelines; it also shows the required command‑line flags and how to set up the Reporting section with GitLab credentials.
This guide details step‑by‑step configurations for integrating Single Sign‑On (SSO) and WebHook between GitLab and Jenkins, covering GitLab application setup, Jenkins backup and proxy adjustments, plugin installation, token generation, and testing the connection to ensure successful builds.
UCloud integrated GitLab with its custom Kubernetes‑based container service platform KUN to achieve daily automated deployments, detailing CI/CD goals, branch strategy, pipeline design, Kaniko image building, runner execution, and a specialized YAML editor for seamless cloud‑native development.
This guide explains how to configure Single Sign‑On (SSO) and WebHook integrations between GitLab and Jenkins, covering application setup, redirect URL configuration, Jenkins backup and proxy adjustments, installing the GitLab hook plugin, generating tokens, and testing connections to ensure successful CI/CD triggering.
This article details a practical, production‑grade Spark CI/CD workflow using GitLab and Jenkins, covering source management, multi‑branch release strategies, automated testing, gray‑release, hot‑fix handling, and rollback mechanisms for large‑scale deployments.
This guide explains how to download, install, and configure the SonarQube GitLab authentication plugin, including plugin installation via Maven, setting up a GitLab application with HTTPS, configuring SonarQube authentication parameters, and troubleshooting common redirect URL errors.
This article analyzes the advantages of Gerrit’s pre‑commit CHANGE workflow and GitLab’s Merge Request, proposes a hybrid code‑review service that integrates both approaches, and outlines the scenarios where each method or their combination best fits development teams seeking higher code quality and efficient integration.
This article details the evolution and practices of a continuous delivery engineering system in Android development, focusing on reliability, automation, and tools like GitLab and OkCheck.
This tutorial walks you through creating a dedicated git user, configuring a bare repository, setting up SSH key authentication, installing GitLab on CentOS 7, managing groups and permissions, and performing backup and restore operations, all with concrete command examples and screenshots.
This article introduces GitLab as a powerful open‑source version control platform and explains how its comprehensive API can be leveraged to automate tasks such as branch creation, code commits, and project monitoring, enabling continuous integration and workflow management for development teams.
The article describes an automated continuous‑integration framework for Xianyu’s iOS multi‑bundle projects that links Aone requirements to GitLab commits and Mojianlun builds via a SpringBoot/Vue platform, using webhook‑driven packaging, scoped testing, rate‑limited queues and statistics to reduce manual effort and errors.
This guide walks through preparing an Alibaba Cloud ECS Linux 7.4 instance, installing Docker CE, verifying the installation with a hello‑world container, pulling the GitLab CE image, configuring and running the GitLab container, and troubleshooting common issues such as port conflicts and memory limits.
This article details how Alibaba Group transformed its GitLab deployment from a single‑node bottleneck into a horizontally scalable, sharded architecture that handles millions of daily requests with high availability, improved performance, and robust data safety.
This article details Alibaba Group's journey of transforming its GitLab deployment from a single‑node setup to a distributed, sharded architecture that handles tens of millions of daily requests, achieves near‑perfect reliability, and incorporates performance, monitoring, and disaster‑recovery innovations.
This article describes how Alibaba Group transformed its GitLab platform from a single‑node deployment to a distributed, sharded architecture with proxy services, performance optimizations, multi‑datacenter backup, and automated operations to support millions of users and dramatically increase request throughput.
This guide walks through installing a private GitLab server using Docker, covering image retrieval, container launch with port and volume mappings, external URL configuration, initial setup, project creation, and client-side testing with Git commands to verify the deployment.
This tutorial walks through preparing a CentOS 6 VM, installing required packages, downloading and installing the GitLab omnibus RPM, configuring GitLab (including LDAP), reconfiguring services, accessing the web UI, setting up SSH keys, and troubleshooting common issues.
The article reflects on the GitLab database deletion incident, analyzing how human error, decision fatigue, inadequate backup strategies, and insufficient safeguards exposed reliability gaps, and proposes practical DevOps practices—such as pair operations, diversified redundancy, strict command restrictions, and continuous feedback—to strengthen complex software systems.
The article recounts a GitLab production database deletion caused by a mistaken command, analyzes why the backup mechanisms failed, and offers technical and cultural recommendations—including automation, proper replication, and transparent post‑mortems—to build more reliable, high‑availability systems.
GitLab.com suffered a catastrophic database outage on February 1, 2017 when an exhausted operator mistakenly ran a destructive rm command on the wrong server, wiping most production data; the incident’s timeline, root causes, recovery steps, and lessons learned are detailed in this post‑mortem.
A GitLab.com database accident caused the loss of 310 GB of data, exposing multiple failed backup mechanisms and prompting a detailed analysis of technical, operational, and managerial lessons for reliable data protection.
This article outlines the essential qualities of a good Pull Request—including meaningful improvements, readability, and maintainability—while also highlighting advanced practices such as priority setting, code review, and automated testing to make PRs more disciplined and artistic.
This guide walks you through configuring Jenkins on a CentOS 6.3 server to automatically compile Android projects from a GitLab repository, covering environment preparation, Jenkins installation, job creation, Gradle integration, and troubleshooting common issues such as SDK updates, permission errors, and memory limits.
This comprehensive guide walks you through Git's origins, environment setup, installation, essential commands, workflow states, branching strategies, tag management, as well as detailed steps for deploying GitLab, using GitHub, and selecting client tools, all illustrated with clear diagrams and practical examples.
The article describes a team's transition from SVN to Gitlab using the Gitflow workflow, detailing the motivations, branch structure, tooling with SourceTree, migration steps, and practical solutions to permission, merge conflict, and integration challenges encountered during rapid development scaling.
This guide explains how to configure GitLab webhooks and an Apache endpoint to automatically pull code updates to a test server after each commit, covering server setup, SSH key configuration, PHP interface script, and troubleshooting steps.
This guide explains the Ubuntu 14.04 GitLab environment, describes the recurring 403/401 errors that affect only the office network, and provides step‑by‑step troubleshooting, configuration changes to rack‑attack, and useful references to restore stable service.
This guide walks through downloading, installing, and configuring GitLab CE 7.9 on Ubuntu 14.04, covering nginx workarounds, whitelist setup for rack_attack, essential configuration changes, login credentials, and references to official documentation and update logs.
