How to setup Continuous Integration/Deployment with GitLab for ASP NET Core application
How to setup Continuous Integration/Deployment with GitLab for ASP NET Core application In any application, Continuous Integration and Continous Deployment environments are important to setup to remove respectively the risking of breaking your application while pushing code to master branch and having to manually deploy your application each time you need to either test it or deliver it. GitLab comes with a set of features to integrate quickly CI/CD to your application for free! Today we will see how we can setup CI/CD by leveraging the free services from GitLab. This post will be composed by 4 parts: 1. Overview of the scenario 2. Setup a runner 3. Configure your job 4. Monitor your deployment on GitLab 1. Overview of the scenario The example that I will take is an ASP NET Core application which runs as a Windows service. My scenario is the most simplistic one may have: I want to setup CI, meaning build and running test and detect break in my code at each push to master branc...