This GitLab CI/CD tutorial is a practical 2026 guide designed to help beginners understand how to build and manage complete CI/CD pipelines. It focuses on real pipeline components such as stages, jobs, execution order, scripts, and artifacts.
The course begins with how to create a CI/CD pipeline in GitLab. You will learn how pipelines are structured and how GitLab automatically runs them when code changes are pushed to the repository.
Next, the tutorial explains how to define stages in GitLab CI. Stages help organize the pipeline into clear steps such as build, test, and deploy, making the workflow easier to manage and control.
You will also learn how to control job execution order, which allows you to define dependencies between jobs and ensure they run in the correct sequence.
The course then covers how to execute scripts before or after a job. This is useful for setup tasks, cleanup operations, and automation logic within pipelines.
In addition, you will learn how to run shell scripts inside GitLab CI jobs, enabling more advanced automation scenarios.
Finally, the tutorial explains how to upload and download artifacts, which are files generated during pipeline execution and used in later stages.
By the end of this course, you will be able to build fully functional and automated GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
