Commit 17d2fb77 authored by Marcin Sedlak-Jakubowski's avatar Marcin Sedlak-Jakubowski

Merge branch 'docs-update-ci-index' into 'master'

Update CI/CD index and get started pages

See merge request gitlab-org/gitlab!69046
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# GitLab CI/CD **(FREE)**
GitLab CI/CD is a tool built into GitLab for software development
through the [continuous methodologies](introduction/index.md):
GitLab CI/CD is a tool for software development using the continuous methodologies:
- Continuous Integration (CI)
- Continuous Delivery (CD)
- Continuous Deployment (CD)
- [Continuous Integration (CI)](introduction/index.md#continuous-integration)
- [Continuous Delivery (CD)](introduction/index.md#continuous-delivery)
- [Continuous Deployment (CD)](introduction/index.md#continuous-deployment)
NOTE:
Out-of-the-box management systems can decrease hours spent on maintaining toolchains by 10% or more.
Watch our ["Mastering continuous software development"](https://about.gitlab.com/webcast/mastering-ci-cd/)
webcast to learn about continuous methods and how the GitLab built-in CI can help you simplify and scale software development.
webcast to learn about continuous methods and how GitLab CI/CD can help you simplify and scale software development.
Continuous Integration works by pushing small code chunks to your
application's codebase hosted in a Git repository, and to every
push, run a pipeline of scripts to build, test, and validate the
code changes before merging them into the main branch.
Continuous Delivery and Deployment consist of a step further CI,
deploying your application to production at every
push to the default branch of the repository.
These methodologies allow you to catch bugs and errors early in
the development cycle, ensuring that all the code deployed to
Use GitLab CI/CD to catch bugs and errors early in
the development cycle. Ensure that all the code deployed to
production complies with the code standards you established for
your app.
GitLab can also automatically detect, build, test, deploy, and
GitLab CI/CD can automatically build, test, deploy, and
monitor your applications by using [Auto DevOps](../topics/autodevops/index.md).
For a complete overview of these methodologies and GitLab CI/CD,
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Certain operations can only be performed according to the
[user](../user/permissions.md#gitlab-cicd-permissions) and [job](../user/permissions.md#job-permissions) permissions.
## Feature set
## Features
Use the vast GitLab CI/CD to easily configure it for specific purposes.
Its feature set is listed on the table below according to DevOps stages.
GitLab CI/CD features, grouped by DevOps stage, include:
| Feature | Description |
|:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Configure** | |
| [Auto DevOps](../topics/autodevops/index.md) | Set up your app's entire lifecycle. |
| [ChatOps](chatops/index.md) | Trigger CI jobs from chat, with results sent back to the channel. |
| [ChatOps](chatops/index.md) | Trigger CI jobs from chat, with results sent back to the channel. |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| **Verify** | |
| [Browser Performance Testing](../user/project/merge_requests/browser_performance_testing.md) | Quickly determine the browser performance impact of pending code changes. |
| [Load Performance Testing](../user/project/merge_requests/load_performance_testing.md) | Quickly determine the server performance impact of pending code changes. |
| [CI services](services/index.md) | Link Docker containers with your base image. |
| [CI services](services/index.md) | Link Docker containers with your base image. |
| [Code Quality](../user/project/merge_requests/code_quality.md) | Analyze your source code quality. |
| [GitLab CI/CD for external repositories](ci_cd_for_external_repos/index.md) **(PREMIUM)** | Get the benefits of GitLab CI/CD combined with repositories in GitHub and Bitbucket Cloud. |
| [Interactive Web Terminals](interactive_web_terminal/index.md) **(FREE SELF)** | Open an interactive web terminal to debug the running jobs. |
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## Examples
Find example project code and tutorials for using GitLab CI/CD with a variety of app frameworks, languages, and platforms
on the [CI Examples](examples/README.md) page.
See the [CI/CD examples](examples/README.md) page for example project code and tutorials for
using GitLab CI/CD with various:
## Administration **(FREE SELF)**
- App frameworks
- Languages
- Platforms
As a GitLab administrator, you can change the default behavior
of GitLab CI/CD for:
## Administration
- An [entire GitLab instance](../user/admin_area/settings/continuous_integration.md).
- Specific projects, using [pipelines settings](pipelines/settings.md).
You can change the default behavior of GitLab CI/CD for:
- An entire GitLab instance in the [CI/CD administration settings](../administration/index.md#cicd-settings).
- Specific projects in the [pipelines settings](pipelines/settings.md).
See also:
- [Enable or disable GitLab CI/CD in a project](enable_or_disable_ci.md).
- [Disable GitLab CI/CD by default in new projects](../administration/cicd.md). **(FREE SELF)**
- Other [CI administration settings](../administration/index.md#cicd-settings).
## References
### Why GitLab CI/CD?
Learn more about:
Learn more about GitLab CI/CD:
- [Why you might choose GitLab CI/CD](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/10/17/gitlab-ci-oohlala/).
- [Reasons you might migrate from another platform](https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2016/07/22/building-our-web-app-on-gitlab-ci/).
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See also the [Why CI/CD?](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1OGgk2Tcxbpl7DJaIOzCX4Vqg3dlwfELC3u2jEeCBbDk) presentation.
### Breaking changes
### Major version changes (breaking)
As GitLab CI/CD has evolved, certain breaking changes have
been necessary. These are:
been necessary.
#### 13.0
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your Merge Requests, pipeline details pages, and other locations. You may find that you actually don't
need to configure anything to have these appear.
If they aren't working as expected, or if you'd like to see what's available, our [CI feature index](../index.md#feature-set) has the full list
If they aren't working as expected, or if you'd like to see what's available, our [CI feature index](../index.md#features) has the full list
of bundled features and links to the documentation for each.
### Templates
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# Get started with GitLab CI/CD **(FREE)**
Use this document to get started with
GitLab [continuous integration](https://about.gitlab.com/stages-devops-lifecycle/continuous-integration/).
Use this document to get started with [GitLab CI/CD](../index.md).
Before you start, make sure you have:
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