GitLab.com offers free unlimited (private) repositories and unlimited collaborators. It provides the devops platform with all the services required for developing the softwares.
Visit gitlab.com and register as new user.
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Visit your email inbox and confirm your email id.
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Once email id is confirmed, visit the login page and login with your username and password.
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Once login, you need to select your role and why you are signing up with gitlab. You can choose as you intends to register.
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In gitlab, projects are organised within groups so you can name the collection of similar projects within one group and update the names as below.
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We created the group as “lynxbeedev” and first project under that group as “helloworld” as we updated below and then click on “Create Project”
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At the end you can also decide to add more users to this project using below popup, if you are along contributor you can close this.
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Thats’s it.. we have our first project created with GitLab.