Anatomy of a Pipeline

The GitLab pipeline is the fundamental building block of continuous integration, delivery, and deployment. It outlines the steps applied to your source code or project file, similar to a table of contents or the assembly instructions that come with a new piece of furniture. Essentially, pipelines help ensure your code is valid and deploys to the environment you want it to. In this course, we’ll cover how to create, run, and interpret a GitLab pipeline and outline some best practices for pipeline authoring. We’ll also take a look at some troubleshooting considerations for when a pipeline fails.