The release of GitLab 14.2 brings an exciting new feature to the management of CI/CD pipelines. Stages can now be completely omitted. Instead, the dependencies between pipeline jobs can be specified using the needs keyword. In this article, I will go into these changes and show you an example pipeline definition file making use of stageless pipelines. Traditionally, CI/CD pipelines in GitLab would consist of multiple stages and each stage would contain multiple jobs: The reasoning behind this structure was ...
Imagine you work on an application on a development server for several months until it is time to deploy it to a production system for the first time. Chances are, there are several necessary configuration tasks just waiting to be forgotten: firewall permissions, specific software libraries, file permissions and so on. Ansible offers a reproducible and automatable way to take care of these configurational changes for you – and the beauty is: it does not depend on a specific Linux ...