From code to production: A guide to continuous deployment with GitLab

This post details implementing continuous deployment with GitLab, focusing on artifact management strategies (versioning, retention, registry access), environment strategy, and deployment targets. It provides a step-by-step example for containerizing a simple HTML application, setting up a CI/CD pipeline with Docker, publishing to the GitLab Container Registry, and deploying to a virtual machine using SSH authentication. The pipeline includes stages for publishing, staging, and production deployments, with environment configuration for tracking.