Building A Robust CI/CD Pipeline With GitLab CI & LambdaTest

About the Video

In this video, our Co-Founder and Head of Product, Mayank Bhola, helps you successfully execute a smooth and bug-free CI/CD pipeline deployment on your web application. Additionally, they teach why you should use GitLab CI/CD and why it is so important. Lastly, our experts will address all your queries related to CI/CD pipeline and GitLab as part of an interactive Q&A session.

Video Chapters

0:0:00 Introduction

0:0:13 Video Presenters

0:0:55 Learning Objectives

0:2:39 What is CI/CD?

0:5:41 What is Continuous Integration (CI)?

0:19:06 What are the Best practices of CI/CD?

0:24:24 What is GitLab CI/CD used for?

0:26:11 What is CI/CD Pipeline used for?

0:39:50 Demo to establish the motive of the webinar

0:41:46 Proceeding towards LambdaTest demo

1:10:52 Previous Tests by LambdaTest (The Hourglass Project)

1:18:18 Live Q&A

1:19:01 Conclusion

Key Topics Covered

Introduction to LambdaTest: Explanation of LambdaTest as an online cloud platform offering access to over 2000 different browsers for testing, and how it helps developers and testers by providing an infrastructure for cross-browser compatibility testing.

CI/CD Overview: Discussion on Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, and Continuous Deployment, highlighting their importance in modern software development for delivering changes more frequently and reliably.

Continuous Integration (CI): Explains CI as a practice of integrating code into a shared repository early and often, emphasizing automated testing to ensure code quality before merging.

Continuous Delivery (CD): Focuses on automating the software delivery process to ensure software can be reliably released at any time, covering automated testing, build, code signing, and documentation.

Continuous Deployment: Takes CD further by automatically deploying every change that passes through the pipeline to production, underlining the necessity of robust testing to ensure reliability.

GitLab CI/CD Configuration: Detailed walkthrough on configuring CI/CD pipelines in GitLab using the .gitlab-ci.yml file, including setting up environments, using cache to optimize builds, and specifying job triggers.

Leveraging GitLab Variables: How to use GitLab variables to make CI/CD pipelines more flexible and efficient, allowing customization based on different scenarios like branches and tags.

Testing with LambdaTest: Demonstrates how to integrate GitLab CI/CD with LambdaTest for automated cross-browser testing, including parallel testing to reduce execution time.

Practical Demonstration: A live demonstration of setting up a CI/CD pipeline for a sample web application, showcasing real-world application of the discussed concepts, including code integration, automated testing, and deployment strategies.

LambdaTest Tunnel: Introduction to LambdaTest Tunnel for local testing, explaining how it allows browsers in the cloud to access web applications hosted locally for testing purposes without exposing them to the internet.

Best Practices for CI/CD: Offers insights on best practices for CI/CD, such as ensuring fast execution times, protecting sensitive CI/CD environments, and the importance of the ability to roll back changes.

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