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GitLab CI Pipelines
Pipeline efficiency, DAGs, and caching strategies
Details
Language / Topic
GitLab CI/CDCategory
Deployment
Rules
balanced
- Avoid monolithic stages; use the `needs:` keyword to create Directed Acyclic Graphs (DAGs) for faster, parallel execution.
- Utilize global `cache` strategically to share dependencies across jobs safely.
- Eliminate artificial bottlenecks caused by generic stages. Use the `needs:` keyword extensively to run independent jobs immediately.
- Differentiate between `cache` (for sharing node_modules/vendor dependencies between runs) and `artifacts` (for passing compiled binaries downstream to deployment jobs).
- Push docker images using the `$CI_REGISTRY_IMAGE` variable instead of hardcoding paths.