DevOps Project: CICD with Git GitLab Jenkins and Laravel

Course Curriculum

Chapter 1: Introduction

Lecture 1: Introduction

Lecture 2: Prerequisites

Lecture 3: Course Outline

Chapter 2: Creating and configuring virtual machines

Lecture 1: Section Introduction

Lecture 2: Download and install Oracle VirtualBox

Lecture 3: Download ISO images

Lecture 4: Please Read: Enabling Virtual Technology on Your Computer

Lecture 5: Create and configure a virtual Ubuntu desktop

Lecture 6: Customize your desktop

Lecture 7: Create and configure a virtual Ubuntu server

Lecture 8: VirtualBox networking

Lecture 9: SSH Connection into the virtual machines through putty

Lecture 10: SSH into virtual machines through command-line terminals

Lecture 11: Creating virtual machines on Mac OS

Lecture 12: Sign up for a Digital Ocean account

Lecture 13: Create a droplet/server on Digital Ocean

Lecture 14: SSH into your Digital Ocean droplet

Lecture 15: Create an admin user on your DO droplet

Chapter 3: Set up Laravel on your dev machines

Lecture 1: Install PHP and other programs

Lecture 2: Launch a fresh Laravel application

Chapter 4: Git and GitLab setup

Lecture 1: GitLab overview

Lecture 2: Set up a codebase for your project

Lecture 3: Push your code to GitLab

Chapter 5: Deployment to production

Lecture 1: Set up a production server

Lecture 2: Create a Dedicated Deploy User

Lecture 3: LEMP setup on the prod server

Lecture 4: Add Deploy User SSH keys to GitLab

Lecture 5: Get your code onto the prod server

Lecture 6: MySQL Database Setup

Lecture 7: Install dependencies and configure the app

Lecture 8: Configure Nginx Webserver

Lecture 9: Install and configure node JS on the prod server

Lecture 10: Laravel's automated testing

Chapter 6: Manual redeployments

Lecture 1: Redeploying manually

Lecture 2: Add deploy scripts to the code

Lecture 3: Deploy with deploy script

Lecture 4: Create alias to shorten the long deploy command

Chapter 7: Getting started with Jenkins

Lecture 1: Installing Jenkins

Lecture 2: Expose local Jenkins instance to the internet

Lecture 3: Installing and uninstalling Jenkins plugins

Lecture 4: Configure Jenkins for email notifications sending

Chapter 8: Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment with GitLab and Jenkins

Lecture 1: Add Jenkinsfile to your code

Lecture 2: Add user Jenkins SSH key to GitLab

Lecture 3: Configure a pipeline on your Jenkins instance

Lecture 4: Run the pipeline manually

Lecture 5: Jenkins workspace

Lecture 6: Install programs for build and test stages on Jenkins

Lecture 7: Configure the app on Jenkins server

Lecture 8: Configure Jenkinsfile to build and test your application

Lecture 9: Configure Jenkinsfile to deploy the application

Lecture 10: Configure Jenkins for passwordless SSH into the prod server

Lecture 11: Test the pipeline manually

Lecture 12: Configure a webhook to trigger the pipeline

Lecture 13: Continuous Integration Continuous Deployment – demo

Lecture 14: Configure Jenkinsfile to send emails when the pipeline fails

Lecture 15: Test the pipeline with failing automated tests

Chapter 9: Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery with GitLab and Jenkins

Lecture 1: Set up a staging server

Lecture 2: Install necessary programs on Digital Ocean

Lecture 3: Get the app code on to your Droplet

Lecture 4: Set up a MySQL database on the droplet

Lecture 5: Configure Nginx on your droplet

Lecture 6: Configure Jenkinsfile to deploy to staging

Lecture 7: Solve the permission denied issues

Lecture 8: Configure Jenkinsfile to request human input

Lecture 9: Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery – Demo

Chapter 10: Using Gitlab for code collaboration

Lecture 1: Add a contributor to the project

Lecture 2: Create and set up the contributor on your virtual desktop

Lecture 3: Configure the project on the new developer's machine

Lecture 4: Create an issue on GitLab

Lecture 5: Fixing the GitLab issue

Lecture 6: Create a merge request

Lecture 7: Code reviews and merging

Lecture 8: Close the GitLab issue

Chapter 11: GitLab CI

Lecture 1: Disable your Jenkins pipeline

Lecture 2: GitLab runner overview

Lecture 3: Install a GitLab runner

Lecture 4: Gitlab CI config file

Lecture 5: Your first GitLab CI job

Lecture 6: Configure GitLab CI to build and test your application

Lecture 7: Configure GitLab CI to deploy to production

Lecture 8: Configure GitLab CI for Continuous Integration Continuous Delivery

Lecture 9: It's a wrap