GitLab

We make extensive use of GitLab, by using it for the following topics:

• Use it as a Git collaboration platform

• To do our ScrumC sprint planning

• To run our GitLab CI pipelines

• To support our DevOps culture

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The GitLab is automatically deployed via CI/CD pipelines in the GitLab project.

GitLab Flavored Markdown

As mentioned in the Documentation, we’re documenting most of our projects directly in Markdown files (e.g. README.md) in GitLab.

While GitLab supports the basic Markdown syntax, it also supports the enhanced GitLab Flavored Markdown (GLFM) version.

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Nice to know are the following enhancements:

• GitLab-specific references

• Diagrams and flowcharts (we’re using our own PlantUML)

• Table of contents

• Alerts

• Collapsible section

GitLab Guard

GitLab allows a lot of different configuration options, and it’s hard to manage them.

Thus we’ve built & introduced our own GitLab Guard, which will automatically validate, and fix all of the GitLab project settings.

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To learn more about GitLab Guard, check out the README.