George Murphy talks about “Gitlab Server Deep Dive with Continuous Integration” in this episode of ColdFusion Alive podcast with host Michaela Light.

John was one of the speakers at the Into The Box ColdFusion Conference, where he talked about Gitlab server with Continuous Integration.

Are you ready to do a deep dive into setting up a Gitlab Repository on your localhost and doing Continuous Integration with your team?

Show notes

Why Source Control is critical on every ColdFusion project

Why a Git repository? (over subversion or CVS etc)

Only save deltas of code changes, not copy whole repository

Easier merging

Git tags for code freezing, version releases

Built for distributed team

Immediate code sharing

Concern over public vs private code repository

Why Gitlab?

Enterprise edition paid per user

Community edition free

You can run GitLab:

on site on a Linux server

VM

Virtual box

VM player or workstation

Cloud

Built in issue tracker

Built in Continuous Integration

Built in wiki for documentation

25+ 3rd party integrations including:

Slack integration to notify commits made by team members in a certain slack channel

Integration with JIRA, Bugzilla

Alternative Git services:

Github

Bitbucket

What is Continuous Integration and why you should be using it?

Why are you proud to develop in CF?

RAD of very complex apps

Govt use CF a lot

WWIT to make CF even more alive this year?

Mentioned in this episode

Bit N OBF files Virtual Box

Digital Ocean droplets

ESXI virtual machine

No need for FTP or SSH

GitLab CI tools - no need for Jenkins

Slack 3rd party tools eg Kyber online meetings from Slack

Jenkins Continuous Integration

CommandBox

Listen to the Audio

Bio

George Murphy

George is a long time CF developer, focused on ColdBox and CF server maintenance. Currently Senior Software Developer at Fig Leaf Software. He's been working with and exploring various web technologies since the late nineties. ColdFusion aficionado since version 4.5. ColdBox Evangelist. Loves collaborating with other developers and bouncing ideas off them and having them bounce ideas off me. I truly love spending and sharing my time with my lovely wife, daughter and friends.

Links

Twitter

Website

(* WWIT = What Would It Take)

Interview transcript

Michaela Light:              Welcome back to the show. I am Michaela Light from TeraTech, and I'm here with George Murphy, long time ColdFusion developer. He is an expert on GitLab, and he's giving a talk at Into The Box all about GitLab and some of its amazing features, including Continuous Integration. We're going to be talking about not just GitLab, but some other repositories you can use for source control.

                                            We'll also check in what the hell is source control, and why everyone who does ColdFusion should be using it. In our recent State of the Union survey, not everyone is using source control. We'll also look at what Continuous Integration is and why you should be using that, and how GitLab lets you do that for free, and some of the other features in there.

                                            Welcome, George.

George Murphy:            Thank you Michael.

Michaela Light:              Let's start off with, what the heck is source control? I know every listener here probably knows what it is, but just in case anyone didn't. Why is it critical to use it on every single ColdFusion project you do?

George Murphy:            To keep it real simple, source control is a way for developers to be able to commit their code and to be able to keep different versions of their code without having a bunch of folders and forgetting what folder you saved something in, or having your laptop or your work station hard drive crap out on you,