GitLab for DevOps
This is a book written to tackle everyday situations in a Developer and Operations engineer life. From installation to complex configuration, this is a book for you.
Why another GitLab book
I have been following the GitLab community since its very beginning in early 2012. GitLab provides comprehensive documentation, but some things cannot be put in the docs.
During my involvement in helping the community answering questions, I found out that there is a piece missing from GitLab to completely bond with its users. Thus, I decided to write down all the missing concepts that would ultimately form guides rather than plain docs.
Of course like always, if I find that a piece also belongs to the documentation I will submit an MR to GitLab.
Audience
The book targets experienced system administrators. Simple concepts are left out since they are already documented by GitLab upstream. You can read the contents of the book in its Leanpub page.
If you feel you need to first grasp some basic to advanced ideas regarding GitLab, I urge you to buy GitLab Cookbook by Jeroen van Baarsen, a fellow member of the GitLab core team.
Publisher, license and price
I decided to go with Leanpub as it gives its authors the ability to publish early and publish often. That means that the book will be a Work In Progress for some time until it gets fully finished.
Since GitLab is under super active development, publishing on Leanpub gives me the opportunity to edit whenever I please to do so, which means no out-dated chapters. I can also use my favorite tools: vim, git and markdown which means greater productivity.
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I'm strongly thinking of publishing a free html version of the book under an open source license when it gets finished, but till then there is a minimum price for the e-book. This is to get me going with testing GitLab configuration and installation to services that cost money and be able to dedicate a significant amount of my time in writing this.