Arne Blankerts

Arne Blankerts has already dealt with computers when networking was still an adventure. As long-standing head of development of an internet agency, he has created solutions far ahead of the times already years ago. As Co-Founder and Principal Consultant of The PHP Consulting Company (thePHP.cc), Arne helps clients to develop software successfully. He is (co-)author of various Open Source tools, and is a regular presenter at conferences. In his free time he reads fantasy and likes to cook.

Montreal 2024 sessions

Automating Everything with GitLab CI

English training

In a world with complex software projects, distributed development teams and constantly recurring manual tasks, the pressure to automate processes quickly increases to painful levels. A very common and successful means of introducing automation is the use of continuous integration.

In this workshop, you will discover what continuous integration means and how to get the most out of GitLab CI to automate all the things by taking a hands-on deep dive. We'll start from a basic GitLab installation to setup our build environments and create our pipeline from scratch! We'll explore various options to have pipelines build, get our tests run, assets compiled, and the software nicely packaged, containerized and even deployed.