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For the last decade or so, great advancement has been made in regards to Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD). The rise of DevOps testing has led to rapid demand for CI/CD tools. Existing solutions are consistently perking up with time and a myriad of new products or new versions are making their entrance into the QA world. When you have such prolific choices at hand, selecting the right tool can definitely get a little intimidating.

Amongst all the available CI/CD tools for testing, two tools that you should certainly consider are Jenkins and GitLab CI/CD. Jenkins has 16,000+ stars on GitHub whereas GitLab CI/CD has 2012. That’s 8 times more than GitLab CI/CD. However, these numbers aren’t the only thing one needs to look into while selecting a CI/CD tool. This is why in spite of the immense difference in stars, Jenkins vs GitLab CI/CD is having a neck to neck race over multiple review platforms as well.

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With more and more organizations focusing on DevOps, it’s not surprising to see the number of toolchains — and the complexity of those toolchains — multiply. Afterall, automated testing for function, security, and deliverability is at the core of improving a team’s DevOps.

But, at what point are more tools and toolchains creating more distracting work for your team than they save? Is the complexity of these automated tools actually leading to a better development lifecycle, product, or service? Of course, there’s no simple answer to what the right number of toolchains or tools is, given the complicated and diverse circumstances different teams of developers face.

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GitLab Pages is a way to create websites for projects and groups in order to publish documentation, wikis, or any static content. Sometimes, for resource limitation, decreasing the load on the main GitLab instance (if self-hosted), to increase security, or for separating docs and wikis from code, we need to host our GitLab Pages in a separate server. To achieve this, we should have two GitLab instance on two distinct machines: one of them is our main GitLab (a normal GitLab installation) and the other one is an instance only for publishing GitLab Pages.

This is a tutorial and provides some technical information and configurations, We assume you are familiar with GitLab installation and GitLab Pages, and already have one GitLab self-managed instance (on-premises or in the cloud) in use.

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In many projects, the product development workflow has three main concerns: building, testing, and deployment. Each change to the code means something could accidentally go wrong, so in order to prevent this from happening developers adopt many strategies to diminish incidents and bugs. Jenkins, and other continuous integration (CI) tools are used together with a source version software (such as GIT) to test and quickly evaluate the updated code.

In this article, we will talk about Jenkins, applicable scenarios, and alternatives to automated testing, deployment, and delivering solutions.

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