Gitlab Concepts

A Concept is an idea of something formed by mentally combining all its characteristics or particulars; a construct. We have many unique and innovative concepts in Gitlab that simplify the life of our users. Please invest a little time in understanding these topics to get the most out of the application.

Groups

• With GitLab Groups, you can assemble related projects together and grant members access to several projects at once.

• For more information: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/group/

Projects

• In GitLab, you can create projects for hosting your codebase, use it as an issue tracker, collaborate on code, and continuously build, test, and deploy your app with built-in GitLab CI/CD.

• For more information: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/

Repository

• A repository is what you use to store your codebase in GitLab and change it with version control. A repository is part of a project, which has a lot of other features

• For more information: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/repository/

Branching

• Coding in branches is a simple practice that keeps you and your work more organized. Branches let you easily maintain your “in-progress” work separately from your completed, tested, and stable code. Not only is this an effective way to collaborate with others, but it will also allow you to automate the deployment of updates and fixes to your servers.

• Git branching Model in Eshopbox

Merge requests

• A Merge Request (MR) is a request to merge one branch into another.

• Understanding Merge Requests in Eshopbox

Code Review

• Code Review, or Peer Code Review, is the act of consciously and systematically convening with one's fellow programmers to check each other's code for mistakes, and has been repeatedly shown to accelerate and streamline the process of software development

• Code Review in Eshopbox

Code Deployment

• This is achieved with the help of CI/CD feature of Gitlab

• Continuous Integration(CI) works by pushing small code chunks to your application’s codebase hosted in a Git repository, and, to every push, run a pipeline of scripts to build, test, and validate the code changes.

• Continuous Delivery(CD) consists of a step further to CI which is deploying your application to production at every push to a branch of the repository.

• Deployment process in Eshopbox

• For more information: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/README.html