GitLab Advanced Administrator Training
Keep GitLab reliable at scale with tested upgrades, backups and DR, monitoring, performance tuning and security hardening. Learn GitLab Administrator through the available linked GitLab Administrator course path, with hands-on labs, live cohort options, certification support and full LMS access.
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Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes the available linked course levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- Available linked GitLab Administrator levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
About GitLab Advanced Administrator Training.
Understand where GitLab Administrator fits in modern software delivery, what this level covers, and how the program builds practical confidence step by step.
Program overview
GitLab Administrator is taught as a practical technical skill for modern engineering, operations and platform teams. The course explains where the tool fits, how it is used in real delivery environments, and how learners can apply it through guided practice.
This DevOpsSchool GitLab Administrator program is built for working professionals who want usable skills instead of only conceptual exposure. The training emphasizes live examples, workflow clarity, operational controls and progressive skill depth from Foundation to Advanced.
Private GitLab Administrator training for delivery teams, platform groups and engineering organizations.
DevOpsSchool provides corporate GitLab Administrator training for teams that need faster adoption, workflow standardization, administrative control, integration guidance and governance-ready rollout. Private batches can be aligned to development practice, release workflow, access model, maturity level and internal tooling.
- Private online or classroom delivery for engineering teams
- Aligned to GitLab Administrator usage maturity, admin depth and collaboration patterns
- Useful for rollout, migration, governance and workflow consistency goals
- Can be tailored for developers, administrators, DevOps teams and leadership stakeholders
Why teams use DevOpsSchool
DevOpsSchool combines live demonstration, practical workflow discussion, implementation-oriented examples, and strong post-session learning support. That makes the training more usable for real teams than generic slide-led courses.
Available linked levels for this focused course.
The available levels for this course family are presented as one linked training flow. Self-paced buyers get complete LMS access and the broader course library by default.
Instructor-led, self-paced and corporate delivery options.
Compare delivery format, duration, level access and batch style. Fees are shown only in the top decision panel and once again after the agenda.
| Duration | Mode | Level access | Batch |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | Live & Interactive | Advanced | Public batch |
| 8 to 10 Hrs. max | 1:1 Live training | Advanced | Starts immediately |
| 1 year LMS access | Self-paced video | Available linked levels | Anytime access |
| 5 Days | Corporate | GitLab Advanced Administrator Training | Private team batch |
What learners should be able to do after GitLab Administrator training.
The outcomes are written for practical delivery teams: developers, DevOps engineers, release engineers, administrators and technical leads.
Install and configure GitLab
Deploy self-managed GitLab with Omnibus, Docker or Helm and configure HTTPS, email and instance settings.
Govern users and pipelines
Control access with roles, LDAP or SAML and 2FA, and administer runners, CI/CD limits and integrations.
Operate GitLab reliably
Upgrade, back up, restore, monitor, tune and harden GitLab, including HA and Geo designs.
Why this skill, what you will achieve, and who should attend.
Use this section to decide whether the course matches your role, current experience and expected GitLab Administrator responsibilities before reviewing the detailed agenda.
Why GitLab Administrator matters
- GitLab Administrator helps teams standardize a critical part of their software delivery, infrastructure, automation or operations workflow.
- It gives learners a repeatable way to move from basic usage to confident execution in team and enterprise environments.
- For DevOps and platform teams, GitLab Administrator becomes more valuable when connected with automation, governance, monitoring and delivery practices.
- Teams using GitLab Administrator effectively reduce ad-hoc execution and move toward consistent engineering standards.
Objectives
- Understand GitLab Administrator concepts, architecture, terminology and operational usage patterns.
- Learn practical configuration, workflow design, access controls, team usage and quality practices.
- Apply GitLab Administrator in real delivery workflows using automation, integrations, traceability and governance patterns.
- Build practical confidence to use GitLab Administrator for individual, team and organizational use cases.
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer literacy and familiarity with software development workflows.
- Helpful but not mandatory: introductory DevOps, cloud, automation or software delivery awareness.
- No deep programming background is required for the Foundation and Essential levels.
Who this course is for
- Developers, administrators and engineers who need practical GitLab Administrator usage skills.
- DevOps engineers, release engineers, SREs and platform teams managing delivery standards.
- Engineering leads and technical managers responsible for workflow quality, access controls and governance.
- Corporate teams migrating to or standardizing on GitLab Administrator.
Small-batch live training starts every month.
Weekday batches start on the 1st and weekend batches on the first Saturday of every month. One-to-one (1:1) training can start immediately; corporate sessions are scheduled on demand.
Weekend live batch
Starts on the first Saturday of every month. Weekend sessions with demos, labs and Q&A; max 10 learners.
Weekday live batch
Starts on the 1st of every month. Weekday sessions for working professionals and distributed teams; max 10 learners.
Ask advisorAgenda depth up to the selected level.
This page shows the learning flow from Foundation through Advanced. Each level adds to the previous one, and the agenda stops at the current page level. Day counts are for corporate (day-wise) delivery; live online batches cover the same agenda in max 8 to 10 hours.
Foundation Level: architecture, installation and initial configurationDay 1
- GitLab overview and architecture: GitLab CE vs EE and Free, Premium and Ultimate capabilities
- GitLab components: Gitaly, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, Workhorse, Puma and NGINX and how requests flow
- GitLab architecture in self-managed and HA setups: single node versus reference architectures
- GitLab workflow for administrators: Admin area, instance-level settings and daily admin tasks
- GitLab Omnibus installation: Linux package install on Ubuntu or RHEL-family systems and the initial root password
- GitLab installation via Docker and Helm: container install, the GitLab Helm chart and Operator on Kubernetes
- GitLab.rb overview and configuration: /etc/gitlab/gitlab.rb, gitlab-ctl reconfigure, restart and status
- Configuring external URL, ports and HTTPS: Let's Encrypt integration and custom certificates
- SMTP and email notification setup: smtp settings in gitlab.rb and testing delivery from the Rails console
- Timezone, locale and application settings: instance defaults, sign-up restrictions and visibility defaults
- GitLab instance configuration via UI and CLI: Admin area settings, gitlab-rake tasks and the settings API
- Hands-on labs: installing GitLab via Omnibus, configuring gitlab.rb for HTTPS and SMTP, first-time admin dashboard
Essential Level = Foundation + users, groups, authentication and project administrationDay 2 · 2 days cumulative
- User and group management: user creation, profile management, blocking, deactivation and admin impersonation
- Group management and permissions: groups, subgroups, membership inheritance and group-level settings
- Role-based access control: guest, planner, reporter, developer, maintainer and owner roles, custom roles
- Managing SSH keys and personal access tokens: key restrictions, token expiry policies and service accounts
- SAML, LDAP and single sign-on (SSO) integration: LDAP sync, SAML providers and OmniAuth configuration
- Enforcing 2FA: instance-wide and group-level two-factor authentication requirements
- Project visibility levels and forking settings: private, internal and public projects and fork policies
- Protected branches and tags: allowed to push and merge, code owner approval and push rules
- Repository mirroring: push and pull mirrors, mirror authentication and update intervals
- Enabling and disabling features: Wiki, Issues, Snippets, Container Registry and Pages per project and instance
- File storage management and LFS: Git LFS, object storage for artifacts and uploads, repository size limits
- Hands-on labs: configuring project visibility and branch protections, integrating LDAP or SAML for authentication
Intermediate Level = Essential + runners, CI/CD administration, integrations and troubleshootingDay 3 · 3 days cumulative
- Overview of GitLab Runners: instance, group and project runners (shared vs specific) and executors
- Installing and registering runners: Linux, Docker and Kubernetes installs with runner authentication tokens
- Runner tags, locking and concurrency: concurrent, limit and request_concurrency in config.toml
- Auto-scaling runners: Kubernetes executor or the docker-autoscaler executor that replaces Docker Machine
- Security best practices for runners: privileged mode risks, isolated runners, protected runners and secrets
- Understanding .gitlab-ci.yml from the admin POV: includes, rules, environments and protected variables
- Managing pipeline concurrency, timeouts and limits: job timeouts, CI/CD limits and artifact expiry
- Creating and managing pipeline schedules: cron syntax, schedule owners and scheduled variables
- Auto DevOps and standardization: instance-wide Auto DevOps, CI/CD components and compliance pipelines
- Pipeline debugging and troubleshooting: CI_DEBUG_TRACE, job logs, stuck jobs and runner connectivity
- Integration with Jenkins, Jira, Slack and Mattermost: project and instance-level integrations
- Webhooks and API tokens: system hooks, project webhooks, REST and GraphQL API with scoped tokens
- Hands-on labs: registering a GitLab Runner, CI/CD configuration and troubleshooting, API and webhook setup
Advanced Level = Intermediate + upgrades, backup, HA, monitoring and security hardeningDays 4-5 · 5 days cumulative
- GitLab upgrade process: major and minor versions, required upgrade stops and background migrations
- Zero-downtime upgrade strategy: multi-node upgrade order, pre-checks and rollback planning
- GitLab backup strategies and disaster recovery: data versus configuration and secrets, object storage, snapshots
- Full backup using GitLab rake: gitlab-backup create, skip options, gitlab-secrets.json and gitlab.rb
- Automating backup jobs: cron schedules, upload to object storage, retention and backup verification
- Restore process from backup: stopping services, gitlab-backup restore, secrets restore and checks
- High Availability (HA) and Geo replication concepts: Gitaly Cluster, Patroni, Redis Sentinel and Geo sites
- GitLab log structure and locations: /var/log/gitlab, production_json.log, sidekiq and gitaly logs
- Monitoring with Prometheus and Grafana: bundled exporters, health checks and alerting on key metrics
- GitLab performance tuning: Puma workers and threads (Unicorn replaced), Sidekiq queues and PostgreSQL
- Troubleshooting GitLab components and runners: gitlab-ctl tail, gitlab-rake gitlab:check, Rails console
- GitLab Security Dashboard and security scanning features in GitLab Ultimate: SAST, DAST, dependency scanning
- Security hardening: rate limits, IP allowlists, audit events, session and password policies
- Hands-on labs: backup and restore demo and monitoring GitLab with Prometheus
Choose live training or a full year of self-paced access.
If someone buys this focused course as self-paced video, the price stays the same and access includes the available linked levels plus the broader LMS course library.
Self-paced video subscription
Billed yearly at ₹9,996. This includes the available linked course levels, complete LMS access for one year, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
- Available linked GitLab Administrator levels in one price.
- 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools included, even when subscribing to one course.
- Best fit for learners who want full-library access and flexible progress.
Live & Interactive session
Instructor-led cohort, max 8 to 10 hours, with demos, labs, Q&A, assignments and practical review.
- Live small-batch cohort from soon.
- Interactive discussion and lab troubleshooting.
- Recommended for teams that need guided implementation.
1:1 Live training
The same agenda, taught one-to-one by the trainer. Start immediately, without waiting for the next batch. Max 8 to 10 hours, one-to-one.
- Start immediately: no waiting for the monthly batch.
- One learner, one trainer: full attention on your questions.
- Sessions planned around your working hours.
- Your pace, with examples from your own projects and tools.
Method of training and assessment.
The course emphasizes practical demonstration, hands-on labs and assignment-based validation instead of passive lecture-only learning.
| SL | Method of training and assessment | Weightage |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Understanding the problem space | 5% |
| 2 | Concept discussion | 10% |
| 3 | Live demo and walkthrough | 25% |
| 4 | Lab and hands-on exercises | 50% |
| 5 | Assignments and evaluation | 10% |
Labs, exercises and real workflow practice.
Every level moves from explanation to hands-on practice, review and troubleshooting.
Install and configure a GitLab instance
Install GitLab with the Linux package, enable HTTPS with Let's Encrypt, configure SMTP and complete first-time setup in the admin dashboard.
Set up access and project governance
Connect GitLab to LDAP or SAML, build a group hierarchy with roles, enforce 2FA and configure protected branches, mirroring and LFS on a project.
Run a governed CI/CD platform
Register autoscaling Docker and Kubernetes runners, apply CI limits and schedules, connect Jira and Slack and debug a failing pipeline.
Upgrade, back up and recover GitLab
Automate backups, restore an instance onto a fresh server, perform a version upgrade and build Prometheus and Grafana monitoring with alerts.
GitLab Administrator is taught as part of a working delivery ecosystem.
You learn where the tool sits in the wider engineering workflow, not in isolation.
Core foundations
Terminology, concepts, architecture and the operating model behind the tool.
Workflow traceability
Map practical work to tasks, approvals, documentation and delivery visibility.
Automation and integration
Use GitLab Administrator with validation checks, automation hooks and delivery workflows.
Governance controls
Operate with permissions, approvals, policy checks and production-safe workflows.
How your practical work is assessed.
Your certificate is backed by labs, assignments, capstone thinking and completion evidence.
Assignments
Level-specific assignments verify setup, configuration, workflow quality and operating discipline.
Hands-on validation
Learners are expected to complete practical usage, automation and troubleshooting exercises.
Completion record
Certificate issuance is tied to demonstrated participation, practical completion and course-level coverage.
Led by Rajesh Kumar and the DevOpsSchool practitioner network.
Training is grounded in practical DevOps, SRE, security, release and platform engineering experience with real enterprise delivery context.
Earn a DevOpsSchool GitLab Administrator certificate.
Completion includes a digital certificate with credential details, practical assignments and a learning record aligned to the selected GitLab Administrator level.
Certificate verificationCertificate of Completion
GitLab Administrator Advanced Training
Unique credential ID, verifiable online
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Used by developers, DevOps engineers, release leads and engineering managers.
Private batches are available for teams that want the same agenda aligned to their own tools and workflows.
Why this GitLab Administrator path is different.
The value is not only one course. The subscription unlocks the full learning ecosystem for one year.
| Feature | DevOpsSchool GitLab Administrator Training | Typical short course |
|---|---|---|
| Levels | Available linked levels for this focused course | Single generic syllabus |
| Self-paced access | Available linked levels plus 20+ courses and 50+ tools | Usually one course only |
| Live training | Demos, labs, Q&A and assignment review | Often lecture-heavy |
| Certificate | DevOpsSchool completion certificate | Varies by provider |
Questions learners ask before joining.
Does Foundation cost less than Advanced?
No. Self-paced pricing is intentionally the same because it includes the available linked levels and the broader LMS library.
What is included in the yearly subscription?
One year of complete LMS access, the available linked levels for this course, plus 20+ additional courses and 50+ tools access.
Can corporate teams request customization?
Yes. The live format can be aligned to team tools, governance requirements, workflows and internal delivery standards.
What is the recommended sequence?
Follow the levels in the order shown on this page. Each level builds on the one before it.
Talk to DevOpsSchool before choosing the batch.
Use this support section for batch questions, corporate planning, LMS access clarifications, or guidance on which GitLab Administrator level fits your team.
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Training supports live online, private team and workshop-style delivery.
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