DevOps / Gitlab Interview questions
What is the difference between a GitLab group and a GitLab project?
A project in GitLab is the container for a single repository, its issues, merge requests, CI/CD pipelines, and wiki - essentially, one codebase. A group is a higher-level container that holds multiple projects (and can hold subgroups), used to organize related repositories under shared settings and membership.
| Project | Group |
| Holds one repository and its related tooling. | Holds multiple projects and/or subgroups. |
| Members are usually added per project. | Members inherit access to every project inside it. |
| Has its own CI/CD variables. | Can define group-level CI/CD variables inherited by all its projects. |
In practice, a company might create a group per team or per product line, then create one project inside it per microservice, so permissions and shared settings only have to be managed once at the group level.
A GitLab group primarily exists to:
Members added at the group level:
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