What is GitLab?

GitLab is a comprehensive DevOps platform that enables teams to collaborate on software development and delivery in a streamlined, efficient way. It provides a complete solution for the entire software development lifecycle, including planning, version control, CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment), security, and monitoring.

With GitLab, teams can manage code repositories, automate testing, deploy code, and monitor performance, all from a single interface. This end-to-end platform enhances collaboration, reduces cycle times, and increases productivity, making it ideal for organisations looking to accelerate their software delivery and improve operational efficiency.

GitLab’s flexibility supports a wide range of workflows, whether for small development teams or large-scale enterprise projects.

How to maintain or even accelerate speed of value creation while scaling the organisation?
How to evolve an architecture along with the evolution of the organisation and avoid that one becomes a blocker for the other and a blocker for the growth of the business?
The approach provides a pattern language and a thinking model, which allows you to identify the team-of-teams design most appropriate for the target architecture and fast flow of value.

GitLab is an all-in-one DevOps platform that streamlines the software development lifecycle by offering key features such as version control for managing Git repositories, integrated CI/CD pipelines for automating testing and deployment, and robust project management tools for tracking issues and tasks. It facilitates collaboration through code reviews, merge requests, and shared wikis, while also integrating security checks like SAST and DAST to identify vulnerabilities early. Additionally, GitLab supports container management with a built-in container registry and Kubernetes integration, and provides monitoring tools to track application performance and optimise system operations.