Cloud Native CI/CD with GitLab

What We Have Learned So Far

In this section and the previous one, we covered key GitLab CI/CD concepts: pipelines, stages, jobs, and runners. A pipeline consists of jobs, which are grouped into stages. Jobs within the same stage run in parallel, while stages execute sequentially.

We demonstrated the flexibility of defining jobs in pipelines and the differences between using YAML anchors and extends to manage reusable configurations. We also introduced default stages (.pre and .post