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Enable organizations to operate and manage multiple environments directly from GitLab. Environments are encapsulated in GitLab as a target system with associated configurations. By facilitating access control, visualizing deployments and deployment history across teams and projects, adding the ability to query environments, and ensuring that environment's configurations are traceable, platform engineers can enact stronger controls and avoid costly mistakes in deployments.
Through the use of Environments in GitLab, teams can easily understand and take critical action on the changes of their application. Environments provide the infrastructure needed for teams to test, deliver, and gain confidence software will work properly in production in any configuration and enable them to strive towards continuous deployment of their application.
| Job statements | Maturity | Confidence | Source |
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We are in the process of evaluating the category maturity and will provide the next iteration of the plan after upgrading to Viable.
We are focusing on iterations to the deployment approval feature to support customer use cases and a streamlined configuration experience, enabling users to easily find and manage their environments in the UI, and how to view deployments across multiple environments/projects. Two features of note that we are scoping are Add Environments support to the GitLab Agent and Group Environments. We are also completing a category maturity scorecard with plans to upgrade the category maturity to Viable after reviewing the results.
| Dimension/Problem | Solution(s) |
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| Many deployments | UI usability enhancements, scalability of the pages |
| Many environments | support for different types of environments (e.g. staging, production, ephemeral, etc), ability to favorite an environment, automated environment cleanup/management |
| Across multiple teams and roles | group-level permissions, deployment approval |
| Across multiple projects | group-level environments |
Garden.io allows developers to work against a live Kubernetes cluster that works alongside their CI. Through building and test caching it promises to allow for faster development cycles and better integration test creation.
ReleaseHub lets users launch ephemeral environments on-demand. Use cases they call out are Staging, Automated Preview, Dev, and QA environments.