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Using GitLab to automate software delivery

Jobin Kuruvilla
Jobin Kuruvilla
15 July 2024
6 min read
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Jobin Kuruvilla
Jobin Kuruvilla
15 July 2024
6 min read
Your organisation needs to move quickly to deliver value to your customers and unlock new business opportunities. However, manual steps in software development can impede achieving your true potential.
The more time developers waste on complex processes and integrations, using multiple interfaces to deploy software across cloud-native and multi-cloud environments, the longer your organisation takes to deliver value to your customers.
But a robust DevSecOps platform like GitLab can help automate your software delivery process and support better collaboration, enabling your developers to focus on work that adds value to deliver higher quality applications.
Let’s dive into how GitLab can help you and your teams.

Why automating software delivery matters

But first, if you need convincing of why you should automate your software delivery process, here’s a recap of the benefits:
  • Better team productivity and efficiency of your software delivery process.
  • Increased visibility into team performance and areas for improvement.
  • Enhanced collaboration across teams.
  • Improved developer experience.
  • Make every change releasable.
  • More reliable applications.
  • Boost deployment frequency.
  • Speed up your cloud-native and multi-cloud adoption.

GitLab for automated software delivery

GitLab can help you harness the benefits of automated software delivery. It is a DevSecOps platform that automates repetitive work and essential tasks in the software delivery process, handling manual tasks like setting up test environments, running test scripts, and deploying to production. This frees your team from mundane tasks so they can focus on value-generating work that will propel your organisation forward.
By using GitLab to automate manual tasks, you can automate your software delivery lifecycle with one single license, one permission model, one interface, and one data model to deploy software to multiple clouds. This means your team can focus on delivering business value instead of managing a complex toolchain.
Here are some of the different ways GitLab helps you to drive value:
  • Accelerates your cloud-native, multi-cloud, Kubernetes adoption and app modernisation to achieve better scale, consistency, and controls.
  • Minimises repetitive tasks from manual work streams and enables your teams to focus on value-generating work, improving the developer experience and productivity.
  • Builds high-quality, secure software by automating your application release process to make software delivery repeatable and on-demand.
  • Shifts testing earlier in the development process so your teams can detect errors before they become a major issue. This means your teams can detect and fix bugs and security issues as they are created, not when code is ready to ship or already in production.

GitLab can help you adopt cloud native, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud

Whether you're dealing with inflexible applications that don't talk to each other, siloed teams that don’t collaborate with each other, or multiple complex tools that require specialised professionals—barriers can put a stop to your transformation initiatives running smoothly.
Automated software delivery with GitLab can help you adopt cloud-native, Kubernetes, and multi-cloud by achieving faster velocity with lower failures and improving developer productivity by eliminating repetitive tasks.

How to automate your software delivery process with GitLab

Let's look at some of the ways GitLab can help delivery automation:
  • Enterprise-ready Source Code Management—With its Git-based repository, GitLab enables clear code reviews, asset version control, feedback loops, and powerful branching patterns to help your developers solve problems, stay secure, and ship value.
  • Built-in continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)—GitLab CI/CD helps you achieve software development that is iterative, tested, and always releasing.
  • Continuous software security—Security and compliance are built in, out-of-the-box, giving you the visibility and control necessary to protect your software.
  • On-demand environments with GitOps—The GitOps operational framework takes DevSecOps best practices used for application development, such as version control, collaboration, compliance, and CI/CD, and applies them to infrastructure automation and management.
  • AI-powered workflows—GitLab Duo uses AI to streamline software development, enhancing security, efficiency, and transparency throughout the entire lifecycle.

Ready to unlock new business opportunities?

By automating your software delivery process with GitLab, you can support your team to deliver value to your customers and unlock new opportunities for your organisation. If you're ready to explore what GitLab could do for you, speak to our experts today.

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Written by
Jobin Kuruvilla
Jobin Kuruvilla
Head of DevOps Practice
Jobin ia a DevOps expert and app developer, with certifications in Atlassian, GitLab PSE, AWS, Kubernetes, and Jenkins. He has led digital transformation initiatives for teams and enterprises and leads the DevOps practice at Adaptavist.