GitLab Quick Start Guide: Migrate to GitLab for all your repository management solutions

by Adam O'Grady, Az Vera

Port projects over from GitHub and convert SVN projects to GitLab hosted git projects Gitlab is an open source repository management and version control toolkit with an enterprise offering. This book is the ideal guide to GitLab as a version control system (VCS), issue management tool, and a continuous integration platform. The book starts with an introduction to GitLab, a walkthrough of its features, and explores concepts such as version control systems, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It then takes you through the process of downloading and installing a local copy of the on-premise version of GitLab in Ubuntu and/or CentOS. You will look at some common work?ows associated with GitLab work?ow and learn about project management in GitLab. You will see tools and techniques for migrating your code base from various version control systems such as GitHub and SVN to GitLab. By the end of the book, you will be using Gitlab for repository management, and be able to migrate projects from other VCSs to GitLab. The book is intended for the developers, SREs, and DevOps professionals who are looking for techniques to port their codebase to GitLab from GitHub or are looking to work with GitLab as their version control system of choice. If you've used other VCSs before, that will help with this book.

180 pages, Paperback

Published November 30, 2018

Reviews

[Chamois · Rating 5 out of 5]

Full disclosure: I am good friends with the author, but I paid for my copy of the book.

Other relevant info: I'm not a dev. My review is probably most useful to people who need to get an overview of GitLab from a manager or dev-adjacent position - eg if you're being asked to implement this by your devs, and you need some additional background. The book does include technical instructions relevant to actually setting and working with GitLab, and the main audience is developers/programmers.

GitLab Quick Start Guide is a great introduction to GitLab (of course) but also gives a background on repository management solutions as a concept. It provides a good overview of the advantages of GitLab in particular, and explores the free features as well as what you'd gain by upgrading to paid features.

The text is not dry or boring at all. It manages to be informative and (somehow!) funny while also imparting the knowledge you're after, without being condescending. The book's structure is logical and ensures you have a basic understanding of the concepts before moving into the more technically detailed aspects.

If you're after an introduction to GitLab in particular, or you're trying to get your head around repository management in general and are interested in a practical example, I highly recommend this book.

[Marat · Rating 4 out of 5]

recommend for quick start, was very helpful with understaing CI implementation in GitLab.
P.s. you must to know how git works in order to follow the instructor.

[Marcin · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is only for person whose never used GIT and other git services like github.

[Beyto · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is very good, explained the github and gitlab flows very well and easy to understand.