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Using GitLab for Managing Projects

Introduction GitLab offers a very convenient way to work with remote repositories on centralized servers. Anyone coming from GitHub or any other tool might consider that there are many other tools offering this service. However, use cases differ from team to team. GitLab’s main advantage is that you get complete control over your repositories and setting permissions. In this tutorial, …

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How to Configure Automatic Deployment with Git with a VPS

Git is the most popular version control system in the field of software development. It’s open-source and actively maintained since 2005 by Linus Torvalds, the famous creator of Linux. Today, a staggering number of software projects (including commercial ones) use Git for version management. Git follows a distributed architecture, making it a perfect example of a DVCS (Distributed Version Control …

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Using Git Effectively: A Tutorial

In the world of software development, Git is definitely the most popular version control system. Version control is the practice of keeping track of changes to the code base of an app. It keeps track of every single change to the code base. If any mistake is made, developers can easily switch back to the previous state. Git is a …

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How to Host a Docker Image Repository and Build Docker Images with GitLab Self-Managed Instance on Ubuntu 20.04

Containerization technology has greatly advanced in the software development tech space as the most accepted method of packaging and deploying applications in cloud environments. This has been necessitated by the need for continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) which are defining aspects of DevOps. Software developers and engineers make use of containers to achieve the CI/CD aspect of software …

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How To Set Up GitLab Continuous Integration (CI) Pipelines on Ubuntu 20.04

Every developer understands how crucial version control is to the software development lifecycle. It enables multiple people to work simultaneously on a single project, each person maintaining their own copy of the code and choosing when to share it with the rest of the team. To achieve this, developers make use of Git repositories to help with version control. GitLab …

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How to Install and Configure Git on Ubuntu 18.04

Introduction In software development, versioning is an incredibly powerful tool. It allows the developer(s) to keep track of the software at the source level. Versioning helps to keep track of changes, reverting to previous stages, and branching out to create alternate versions of files and directories. Among all the version control systems, Git is probably the most popular one. In …

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Host your own Git Repositories with GitLab

In this post, I am going to demonstrate the installation of GitLab. With GitLab, we can host our own repositories at a central place with the ease of the Git features. GitLab is the first single application for all stages of the DevOps lifecycle. Only GitLab enables Concurrent DevOps, unlocking organizations from the constraints of the toolchain. In addition, GitLab …