A few days ago I encountered an interesting interview in the Kubernetes Podcast website, talking about GitLab and Kubernetes. The hosts interviewed Marin Jankovski — an Engineering Manager at GitLab and the first employee of GitLab (!) . The interview concerns GitLab, Kubernetes, deployment, the SaaS offering of GitLab, transparency and an anecdote around the logo […]
Read more »Archive for the ‘GitLab CI’ Category
New White Paper: Code Review with GitLab
Last update: 06/18/2020 We have just released a new white paper (15 pages) that describes ALL features provided in GitLab that support a modern Code Review process. There are 29 relevant features to code review, and we grouped them by editions (from free edition to enterprise editions) . We also added a few examples, a […]
Read more »Free-of-Charge Serverless Computing Using GitLab CI/CD
In short: GitLab CI/CD lets you run your programs without the need to maintain your own computer, free of charge. A few months ago, we started distributing, to some of our customers, Excel sheets listing GitLab features. How did we create those sheets? We wrote a script, which used GitLab API to extract information from […]
Read more »Join our upcoming GitLab Webinar
This week we are hosting two GitLab employees (one of them is the first engineer at GitLab company) to discuss aspects of GitLab engineering, how GitLab was built and different aspects of using GitLab effectively. Webinar is free of charge. “Ask Me Anything” about GitLab Engineering (September 26th 2PM CET) We’ll be hosting: Marin Jankovski, Engineering Manager […]
Read more »Recordings from GitLab Commit Conference (Brooklyn 2019)
Creating a CI/CD Pipeline with GitLab and Kubernetes in 20 Minutes GitLab and Kubernetes provide everything you need to build, test, deploy, and run your app at scale. In this session you’ll learn how to transform a fresh Kubernetes cluster into a CI/CD bastion for your GitLab projects in 20 minutes starting from scratch […]
Read more »Is it possible to use GitLab CI/CD with Bitbucket?
Recently we witnessed a growing interest in GitLab and especially in its advanced built-in CI/CD component. To answer that interest, we have written a few papers on that topic and held several meetings (all of them recorded). As a result we were asked a number of questions about GitLab CI/CD. In this paper I want […]
Read more »Is it possible to use Jira + GitLab + GitLab CI/CD?
Recently we witnessed a growing interest in GitLab and especially in its advanced built-in CI/CD component. To answer that interest, we have written a few papers on that topic and held several meetings (all of them recorded). As a result we were asked a number of questions about GitLab CI/CD. In this post I want […]
Read more »Is it possible to use GitLab CI/CD with GitHub?
Recently we witnessed a growing interest in GitLab and especially in its advanced built-in CI/CD component. To answer that interest, we have written a few papers on that topic and held several meetings (all of them recorded). As a result, we were asked several questions about GitLab CI/CD. In this paper I want to address […]
Read more »New GitLab CI/CD Workshop
We’re glad to invite you to a free workshop – ‘GitLab CI/CD Workshop’, which will take place at Oracle offices, Petah Tikva. This is a hands-on workshop for developers, tech-leads, DevOps, and automated test developers. The series of meetings will focus on Oracle Container Engine for Kubernetes (OKE) and GitLab CI/CD. When? Wednesday, July 24th […]
Read more »New Demo: GitLab CI/CD
This is a demo we got from GitLab company – we’ve edited and added English captions. It’s an updated technical demo that demonstrates how to use GitLab CI/CD: How to set configuration file of GitLab CI/CD (gitlab-ci.yml) How to run CI pipelines How to configure runners (nodes) and how to execute tests To watch demo […]
Read more »Does GitLab Installation over Kubernetes Provide High Availability (HA)?
Foreword: What you gain by installing GitLab on Kubernetes (K8S) and what you don’t. As GitLab representatives in Israel, we are regularly asked technical questions about GitLab and tools, which integrate with it. One of the questions often asked lately is about GitLab’s integration with K8S. We have noticed that there is a popular assumption […]
Read more »Join our upcoming GitLab webinars: Code Security and CI/CD
This week and the week after we are hosting two GitLab employees to discuss different aspects of using GitLab effectively. All webinars are free of charge. 1. GitLab and Code Security (10/10 10AM CET+2) We are hosting Fabio Bussato, Senior Product Manager of Security in GitLab Company, to discuss new code security capabilities included in Gitlab. […]
Read more »New: Autoscale GitLab CI/CD on Spot Instances With Spotinst’s Elastigroup
Spotinst now offers a new service that enables you to integrate their Elastigroup to GitLab CI/CD. That means you can enjoy 3 benefits: Save money on Spot instances you install on AWS (Amazon Web Services) EC2. You can save up to 80% by using Spotinst (read below what Spot instances are) High availability that Spotinst […]
Read more »GitLab Pricing is Changing Soon
GitLab, a popular solution for smart software development on top of Git, recently announced a price increase for on-premise (self-hosted) editions: GitLab EES is changing in price from $39 per person per year to $48 and will now be called: “GitLab Starter” GitLab EEP is changing in price from $199 per person per year to […]
Read more »GitLab Acquires Gemnasium and Offers New Built-in Code Security Features
GitLab has acquired Gemnasium, a service that scans for security vulnerabilities in open source libraries, and soon it will be part of the GitLab product. This move helps GitLab users enjoy static code analysis; dynamic security testing; security container scanning and more. The tool can now scan Ruby, Python and JavaScript code languages, and very […]
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