GitLab@CERN Day

Wednesday 3 Oct 2018, 10:00 → 16:30 Europe/Zurich

31/3-004 - IT Amphitheatre (CERN)

10:30 → 12:10 Morning session

10:30 CERN opening talk

Welcome talk, introductions

Speaker: Alexandre Lossent (CERN)

Recording

Welcome notes

10:45 CERN presentation of GitLab deployment at CERN

History of the GitLab project at CERN
Some numbers about CERN's GitLab instance
How CERN deploys and operates GitLab
High-level use cases

Speaker: Alexandre Lossent (CERN)

2018-10-03 - GitLab@CERN day - GitLab deployment at CERN.pdf

2018-10-03 - GitLab@CERN day - GitLab deployment at CERN.pptx

11:00 GitLab use at CERN: ATLAS reusable research

Overview on how we use gitlab + kubernetes within ATLAS to drive reusable research

Speaker: Lukas Alexander Heinrich (New York University (US))

GitLab.pdf

Recording

11:10 GitLab use at CERN: computer center configuration management

Speaker: Nacho Barrientos Arias (CERN)

Notes

Recording

11:20 GitLab use at CERN: using CI for FPGA development at LHCb

How we rely on GitLab-CI to produce:

• the FPGA firmware for our custom data acquisition hardware
• the custom software and drivers to access it
• the SCADA middleware to control and configure it

Speaker: Paolo Durante (CERN)

GitLab-CI for FPGA development.pdf

11:30 GitLab use at CERN: keeping the illusion of a monorepo

Overview on

• how we plan to migrate a huge SVN repository to GitLab (20+ MLOC, 1000+ products)
• how to keep the illusion of a monorepo among thousand of git repositories
• how to keep the code base coherent and clean
• how to administer thousand of projects
• how GitLab helps or does not help our use cases

Speaker: Zsolt Kovari (Ministere des affaires etrangeres et europeennes (FR))

GitLab_in_Controls_03_10_2018.pdf

GitLab_in_Controls_03_10_2018.pptx

Recording

11:40 GitLab talk - Who we are (as a company), Roadmap and Vision

Speaker: Mr Job van der Voort (GitLab)

cern_gitlab.pdf

Recording

13:00 → 14:30 CERN facility visits for GitLab visitors

13:00 Antimatter Factory visit

14:00 CERN Computer Center visit

14:30 → 16:30 Afternoon session

14:30 Open discussion

Topics: see attached Hackmd note

Depending on how many persons want to participate, this will take place in 31-S-028 (up to 30 persons) or IT auditorium

Discussion topics

GitLab_CERN_day_open_discussion_minutes.pdf

See attached minutes.

15:30 What's new? GitLab AutoDevOps / CI-CD / Security features

Speaker: Mr Kamil Trzciński (GitLab)

pres_cern_meetup.pdf

Recording

16:00 Wrap up, Q&A / AMA (Ask me anything)