GitLab CI with LaTeX

June 1, 2020

For writing my thesis I used LaTeX and I wanted to share my notes with my supervisor. We used GitLab for that. One cool thing about GitLab is, that you can use their CI/CD services to automatically build an PDF document out of the LaTex source and share it on your GitLab page. If someone wants to do something similar, here is the .gitlab-ci.yml file that I used:

pdf:
  image: blang/latex
  before_script:
    - apt-get update
    - apt-get install -y biber
  script:
    - cd notizen
    - latexmk -shell-escape -pdf notizen.tex
    - cp notizen.pdf ..
  artifacts:
    paths:
      - "*.pdf"

pages:
  stage: deploy
  script:
  - mkdir .public
  - cp -r * .public
  - mv .public public
  dependencies:
  - pdf
  artifacts:
    paths:
    - public
  only:
  - master