Commit 41af86bc authored by Mark Pundsack's avatar Mark Pundsack

Move Pipelines and Builds definitions to their own page

parent edfe2e2d
## GitLab CI Documentation
### CI/CD User documentation
### CI User documentation
- [Get started with GitLab CI](quick_start/README.md)
- [CI/CD Definitions](definitions/README.md)
- [CI examples for various languages](examples/README.md)
- [Learn how to enable or disable GitLab CI](enable_or_disable_ci.md)
- [Pipelines](pipelines.md)
- [Environments and deployments](environments.md)
- [Learn how `.gitlab-ci.yml` works](yaml/README.md)
- [Configure a Runner, the application that runs your builds](runners/README.md)
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## CI/CD Definitions
### Pipelines
A pipeline is a group of [builds] that get executed in [stages] (batches). All of
the builds in a stage are executed in parallel (if there are enough concurrent
[runners]), and if they all succeed, the pipeline moves on to the next stage. If
one of the builds fails, the next stage is not (usually) executed.
### Builds
Builds are runs of [jobs]. Not to be confused with a `build` stage.
### Jobs
Jobs are the basic work unit of CI/CD. Jobs are used to create [builds], which are
then picked up by [Runners] and executed within the environment of the Runner.
Each job is run independently from each other.
### Runners
A runner is an isolated (virtual) machine that picks up builds through the
coordinator API of GitLab CI. A runner can be specific to a certain project or
serve any project in GitLab CI. A runner that serves all projects is called a
shared runner.
### Stages
Stages allow [jobs] to be grouped into parallel and sequential [builds]. Builds
of the same stage are executed in parallel and builds of the next stage are run
after the jobs from the previous stage complete successfully. Stages allow for
flexible multi-stage [pipelines]. By default [pipelines] have `build`, `test`
and `deploy` stages, but these can be defined in `.gitlab-ci.yml`. If a job
doesn't specify a stage, the job is assigned to the test stage.
### Environments
Environments are places where code gets deployed, such as staging or production.
CI/CD [Pipelines] usually have one or more deploy stages with [jobs] that do
[deployments] to an environment.
### Deployments
Deployments are created when [jobs] deploy versions of code to [environments].
[pipelines]: #pipelines
[builds]: #builds
[runners]: #runners
[jobs]: #jobs
[stages]: #stages
[environments]: #environments
[deployments]: #deployments
......@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ Clicking on an environment will show the history of deployments.
Only deploys that happen after your `.gitlab-ci.yml` is properly configured will
show up in the environments and deployments lists.
[Pipelines]: quick_start/README.md
[Pipelines]: pipelines.md
[jobs]: yaml/README.md#jobs
[environments]: #environments
[deployments]: #deployments
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