Application Development Platform

The GitLab Application Development Platform refers to the set of GitLab features that can be used by operations teams to provide a full development environment to internal software development teams.

Overview

The GitLab Application Development Platform aims to reduce and even eliminate the time it takes for an Operations team to provide a full environment for software developers, comprised of the following high-level elements:

Compute
Build, test, deploy a wide range of applications
Security
Observability

We believe the use of these common building blocks equate to big gains for teams of all sizes, resulting from the adoption of newer, more efficient, more paid, and less error-prone techniques for shipping software applications.

Compute

Because at GitLab we are cloud-native first our Application Development Platform will focus on providing robust support for Kubernetes first with other platforms to follow. Teams can bring their own clusters and we will additionally make it easy to create new infrastructure with various cloud providers.

Build, test, deploy

In order to provide modern devops workflows, our Application Development Platform will rely on Auto DevOps to provide those workflows. Auto DevOps works with any Kubernetes cluster; you're not limited to running on GitLab's infrastructure. Additoinally, Auto DevOps offers an incremental consumption path. Because it is composable you can as much or as little as you'd like as customize without having to start over on a completely different platform.

Security

The Application Development Platform aims to ensure that applications developed with it are not affected by vulnerabilities that may lead to security problems and unintended use. This can be achieved by making use of the embeded security features of Auto DevOps which allow both security teams and developers to know if there is something that they should consider in their apps, before it is too late to create a fix. The following features are included:

Observability

Performance is a critical aspect of the user experience, and ensuring your application is responsive and available is everyone's responsibility. The Application Development Platform aims to integrate key performance analytics and feedback into GitLab, automatically. The following features are included:

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