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DevOps Continuous Integration and Delivery: Setting Up a CI/CD Pipeline

In this lab, you’ll practice how to use and set up GitLab to manage your code. When you’re finished, you’ll have set up a GitLab repository and implemented GitLab CI with stages to build, unit test, and deploy a web application.

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Level
Beginner
Last updated
Aug 04, 2025
Duration
1h 10m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Get Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. Challenge

    Verify the Lab Environment

    To start, you will verify that GitLab, GitLab-runner, Docker, and Terraform are present in the lab environment.

  3. Challenge

    Set up and Configure Gitlab

    You will verify access to the GitLab UI using the provided account, create a repository for the lab with a main branch, create your ssh key, and attach it to your GitLab account to allow pushing and pulling to and from the repository that you created.

  4. Challenge

    Implement a Unit Testing Stage

    In this challenge, you will create a gitlab-ci.yaml file which will be the basis for the CI/CD pipeline. You will create a unit testing stage to test the application code that you pushed to the repository.

  5. Challenge

    Implement a Deploy Stage

    To finish the lab, you will create a deployment stage in the gitlab-ci.yaml file to deploy the artifact (container) that you created and pushed to the artifact repository.

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