gitlab-ci-patterns

SUMMARY

What it does

This skill provides comprehensive GitLab CI/CD pipeline patterns for automated testing, building, and deployment. It covers multi-stage pipeline structure, Docker build and push, multi-environment deployment to Kubernetes, Terraform pipelines, security scanning with SAST and Trivy, caching strategies, and dynamic child pipelines. It includes best practices for using specific image tags, caching dependencies, using artifacts, implementing manual gates, using environments, enabling merge request pipelines, using pipeline schedules, implementing security scanning, using CI/CD variables for secrets, and monitoring pipeline performance. The skill is intended for use when implementing GitLab CI/CD, optimizing pipeline performance, or setting up automated testing and deployment.