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Discussion on: What is your favorite CI/CD tool and why?

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Devin Handspiker-Wade •

GitLab-CI:

  • Supports Docker containers, SSH, or virtual machines
  • Easy to configure YAML
  • Can self-host a runner while also providing a free shared runner for smaller projects
  • Can be used for non-Gitlab projects
  • Config is tracked in the repo
  • Files can be cached between runs based on a dynamic key
  • Jobs can be tested locally before committing the config
  • Can run jobs based on the branch or tag pushed
  • Job can be scheduled to run on a regular basis
  • Provides artifact storage (As far as I know Bitbucket doesn't)
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Evan Oman •

Very cool, we just got Gitlab Enterprise at work (after sitting on Gitlab 6 for years) and I am excited to try the CI stuff out.

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Devin Handspiker-Wade •

Do you mean "...sitting on Github"? 'Cause CI access is included even in the free GitLab packages.

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Evan Oman •

Hmm, yeah our local Gitlab instance only has the Git part available as far as I can tell.