Recipes: Continuous Integration on GitLab

Continuous Integration works by pushing small code chunks to your application’s code base 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. This recipe helps you set up CI/CD on GitLab and automate your production build!.

Prerequisites

• Make sure you have the Gatsby CLI installed
• A GitLab account

Directions

1. Create a gatsby site

2. Change directory and start a development server

3. Stop your development server (Ctrl + C on your command line in most cases)

4. Create a .gitlab-ci.yml with the following content:

3. git push <you-remote-gitlab-repo>
4. Check out your pipeline under the CI/CD option.

Additional resources

• See how you can develop this file into something more real world GitLab CI/CD Docs

• Check this especially to learn how to make your newly build available for a next job - GitLab Job Artifacts Docs

• Getting started with GitLab CI/CD