Gitlab 2-2-3 GitLab tour UI

This lesson is a guided tour of the GitLab user interface, focused on the project dashboard. From the main page we can navigate through our projects and explore other contributors' work via the Explore projects button. Returning to the project dashboard gives access to all the tools we need on a daily basis.

The key project pages

• Project overview — a quick summary of the project: project ID, total number of commits, branch count, project size, "star" option, plus the Clone button which exposes both an SSH URL and an HTTPS URL to clone the repository locally.
• Files panel — the file and folder structure of the project. For a project initialized with the "create README" option, this is where you find the README, which is also displayed automatically below.
• Activity — a chronological log of every event: who pushed to which branch and when, which branch was merged into which, etc. The list can be filtered by event type.
• Repository — sub-pages mirroring the project: files, commits, branches and more, each page name self-explanatory.
• Issues — a great way to track tasks, improvements and bugs across the project.
• Merge Requests — used to merge one branch into another; this option will be covered in detail during the hands-on exercises.
• CI/CD — the most important section for this course. From here we will trigger and manage our pipelines. Initially it is empty because no pipeline is defined yet.
• Settings — the admin-level controls of the project: rename, change visibility, add runners, archive or delete the project, and more.

That is a quick overview of the most important GitLab pages you will use throughout this course. The CI/CD section in particular will be at the center of every following lesson. See you in the next video.