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

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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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Lab Info

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Oct 14, 2025

Duration

1h 15m

Challenge

Verify the Lab Environment

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