An Intellyx Brain Candy Brief
GitLab, the company best known for its on-premises, open source Git-repository, is now reimagining the entire DevOps lifecycle toolchain with its vision for what it calls Concurrent DevOps. The driver for this new vision, according to the company, is fundamental: the survival of every organization now depends on their ability to deliver a ‘radically faster DevOps lifecycle.’ And, as the company sees it, it is the current incarnations of the DevOps toolchain that is the limiting factor.
The company believes that it is the integration complexity that exists between the various elements of existing toolchains that slow teams down and introduces organizational disconnects. In many ways, as the company sees it, current DevOps efforts are nothing more than faster, sequential, waterfall methodologies — when what these organizations need is the ability to work in a truly parallel fashion. This parallel work effort is what the company calls ‘Concurrent DevOps.’
To solve this problem, the company built a new, single application from the ground up to support the full DevOps lifecycle. The platform includes components that support planning activities, development, verification, packaging, release, configuration, and monitoring — all built upon a single data store, permission model, and interface. Moreover, the platform also includes built-in governance, collaboration, and analytics.
True to its open-source roots, all elements of the platform are based on open source technologies, and the integrations that they’ve built between them are also open sourced. While the company believes that their single-application vision will result in significantly reduced time-to-market for its customers, it also recognizes that its enterprise clients need the ability to implement incrementally. The company, therefore, supports deep integrations with existing toolchains and enables its customers to use the elements of the platform that best suit their needs.
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