Gitlab – Groups and Projects - DevOps

Groups

In Gitlab, projects are grouped into Groups, or optionally into Subgroups:

At this point I’m going to create the first group: Infrastructure, which will be used to store projects, playbooks, sources, etc.

It’s important to set the group’s scope to Internal (or Public) when creating it, so that it can be used in Pipelines with Jenkins in the future.

On the main Gitlab screen, menu on the left: Groups > New Group (top right button) > Create group.

Create group

Now inside a group, I’m going to create the first project: Blueprints

New project > Create blank project > Create project

Options

Create new project

Again, if the project will be used in Pipeline, leave the Visibility Level at Internal.

Take the opportunity to initialise the project with the README, there are many templates on the internet and great online editors, I use StackEdit

Group	Project	Description
infrastructure	blueprints	Project group with blueprints for VMs, Pods and Containers, Services, etc. They will be consumed by pipelines.
infrastructure	images	Blueprints with docker image definitions.
infrastructure	automation	Source codes that will be used in automations and pipelines.