Python/DevOps

 We are going to talk about the trigger keyword today. With this feature you can define a downstream pipeline trigger. So, you can trigger a pipeline in any project (you must have access to this project of course). There are two types of downstream pipelines: multi-project pipelines child pipelines  Let's omit child pipelines and have a look at multi-project pipelines. It is very easy to use. You just need to provide a path to the project and that's it. Remember that you only can trigger a pipeline, not a job ! You can also provide more information like environment variables. As always, I am going to provide some examples, so you will understand it better. The first example: you want to trigger a pipeline in another project after the deployment of your service/s. How to do that? Here we want to trigger this pipeline (project my/run-tests ). Let's say that we want to run some tests after each deployment: We need to add the job which will trigger this pipeline in my/run-...

Some time ago GitLab has introduced include keyword that: allows the inclusion of external YAML files. Everyone knows that microservices like to multiply. Thus, this feature is very useful when you have microservices, because you do not have to copy & paste the code. Let's see what can you do with this. Let's assume that we use Docker and we need to build an image. If you want to build an image and deploy your microservice you can just make a new .gitlab-ci.yml file in your project and add two jobs: build and  deploy : When you have three/four microservices you can tempt to copy & paste this code to the rest of the projects. But, if you have more projects and you need to change the logic of deployments, then you have a problem, because you need to edit many .gitlab-ci.yml files. You do not want to do that, so how to deal with it? Use include  keyword! It is very simple. For me in most cases creating one gitlab template file is enough. Let's call it git...