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What is CI/CD?

CI/CD can let you build, test, and deploy your code automatically. Want to run CI/CD on your project, you have to create a pipeline job which is write in yml.

Build a pipeline job with yml

In your project, you can create a file named .gitlab-ci.yml to define your pipeline job. The file should be in the root directory of your project.

Define a job

sample-job:
  script:
    - echo "Hello World"

Define a job with image

sample-job:
  image: alpine:latest
  script:
    - echo "Hello World"

Define a job with stages

The stages are used to define the order of the job. The job in the same stage will run in parallel.

stages:
  - build
  - test
  - deploy

build-job:
  stage: build
  script:
    - echo "Hello World"

test-job:
  stage: test
  script:
    - echo "Hello World"

deploy-job:
  stage: deploy
  script:
    - echo "Hello World"

Define a job with needs

needs let job depends on other jobs. The job will run after the jobs in the needs list are finished.

sample-job-1:
  script:
    - echo "Hello World"

sample-job-2:
  needs:
    - sample-job-1
  script:
    - echo "Hello World"

Define a job with environment variables

sample-job:
  variables:
    MY_VAR: 'Hello World'
  script:
    - echo $MY_VAR