GitLab

GitLab is a complete DevOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate. GitLab helps teams accelerate software delivery from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs, and reduce the risk of application vulnerabilities while increasing developer productivity.

Continuous Integration is built-in to GitLab
Continuous Integration (CI) works to integrate code provided by your team in a shared repository. Developers share the new code in a Merge (Pull) Request. The request triggers a pipeline to build, test, and validate the new code prior to merging the changes within your repository.

The practice of Continuous Delivery (CD) ensures the delivery of CI validated code to your application by means of a structured deployment pipeline.

Together, CI and CD act to accelerate how quickly your team can deliver results for your customers and stakeholders. CI helps you catch and reduce bugs early in the development cycle, and CD moves verified code to your applications faster.

CI and CD must work seamlessly together in order for your team to build fast and effectively, as well as being critical to ensuring a fully optimized development practice.

Source Code Management
Source code management enables coordination, sharing and collaboration across the entire software development team. Track and merge branches, audit changes and enable concurrent work, to accelerate software delivery.

GitLab Auto DevOps
GitLab Auto DevOps eliminates the complexities of getting going with automated software delivery by automatically setting up the pipeline and necessary integrations, freeing up your teams to focus on the culture part. With Auto DevOps, everyone can skip the manual work of configuration such as security auditing and vulnerability testing, and focus on the creative and human aspects of software creation.

Auto DevOps simplifies and accelerates delivery with a complete delivery pipeline out of the box. Simply commit code and GitLab does the rest. Auto DevOps:

• Detects the language of the code
• Automatically builds, tests, and measures code quality
• Scans for potential vulnerabilities, security flaws and licensing issues
• Packages
• Instruments (for monitoring in real-time)
• And deploys the application

Application Security & DevSecOps
Application Security is hard when security is separated from your DevOps flow. Security has traditionally been the final hurdle in the development life cycle. Iterative development workflows can make security a release bottleneck. Your team doesn't have enough people to test all of your code, and hiring more analysts won't automatically reduce the friction between your app sec and engineering teams. Only testing major releases, or limiting tests to certain apps, leaves weak spots hackers can exploit. You need a way to balance risk and business agility. Instead of waiting for security at the end of the development process, you can include it with your DevOps workflow. You need DevSecOps process.

Agile Delivery
Development teams continue to accelerate the delivery of value with iterative, incremental, and lean project methodologies, such as Scrum, Kanban, Extreme Programming (XP), and more. Large enterprises have adopted Agile at enterprise scale through a variety of frameworks, including Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Spotify, Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), and others. GitLab enables teams to apply Agile practices and principles to organize and manage their work, whatever their chosen methodology.

Value Stream Management
Measure and manage the business value of your DevSecOps lifecycle. Software development should always optimize for maximum customer or business value—but how do you define value and measure progress toward it? GitLab’s Value Stream Management helps businesses visualize their end-to-end workstream, identify and target waste and inefficiencies, and tune those workstreams to deliver the highest possible velocity of value.