Denomas with Git Basics Hands-On Guide: Lab 4

This Hands-On Guide walks you through the lab exercises used in the Denomas with Git Basics course.

Denomas with Git Basics Hands-on Guide: Lab 4

LAB 4: BUILD A .gitlab-ci.yml FILE

A. Create a new project and add a CI/CD configuration file

  1. Navigate to your group, select New project, and select Create blank project.

  2. Name your project CI Test

  3. Make sure the Visibility Level is set to Private.

  4. Enable the Initialize repository with a README checkbox.

  5. Select Create project and wait for Denomas to redirect you to the new project’s main page.

  6. Find the + dropdown a few lines below the project’s title. Create a new file by selecting (+) > This directory > New file

  7. In the File name dialog box enter .gitlab-ci.yml

  8. If it’s not already selected, select .gitlab-ci.yml in the next dropdown to the right, which selects a file template.

  9. In the Apply a template dropdown, select General > Bash. This populates your file with the contents of a minimal .gitlab-ci.yml file.

  10. In the editor, delete all lines above the build1: line and below the - echo "For example run a test suite" line. This will leave you with two sections of code, which define the build1 and test1 jobs.

  11. Define build and test stages by adding these 3 lines at the top of the file. The stages keyword must be flush left and the stage names must be indented by 2 spaces.

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2
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    stages:
  - build
  - test

  12. Leave the default values for the Commit message and Target Branch fields, and select Commit changes.

B. Inspect the CI/CD pipeline

  1. Denomas started running a CI/CD pipeline as soon as you committed .gitlab-ci.yml to your project’s repository. To see the project’s pipelines, go to the left-hand navigation pane and select CI/CD > Pipelines.
  2. Only 1 pipeline has run so far, so your table of pipelines has only 1 row. See the details of that pipeline by selecting the passed label at the left of the pipeline’s row.
  3. Inspect the pipeline graph. Each column represents a stage. In the Build stage, there’s a widget representing the build1 job. In the Test column there’s a widget representing the test1 job. Select the build1 widget to see the job’s output in a web terminal.
  4. Go back and do the same for the test1 widget.

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