GitLab offers global, role-based training and enablement to help you grow your skills and validate your expertise in GitLab. The GitLab Partner Enablement Team has created a robust program to support GitLab partners in selling, marketing, and providing services to GitLab customers. We offer training materials and prescriptive learning paths to support all roles within your organization including, accreditations for sales, pre-sales technical, and certifications for technical consulting services.
GitLab has a commitment to enabling our partners with the skills that they need to best support current and future GitLab customers. This includes offering a combination of GitLab Partner Accreditations for Sales, Pre-Sales Technical, and Customer Success roles, as well as offering GitLab Certifications.
At GitLab we value asynchronous working relationships, that's why all of our Partner Training and Accreditations are self-paced and offered online. Learn anytime and anywhere with access to our training system using your GitLab Partner Portal login.
| Sales | Pre-Sales Technical | Customer Success |
|---|---|---|
| GitLab Foundations for Partners | SA Core Accreditation | Customer Centric Lunch & Learns |
| Sales Professional Accreditation | How to demos | Service Delivery Kits |
| Competitive Positioning | Competitive Positioning | Product Installation Guides |
| Value Pitches | Product Knowledge | Service Development |
We reccommend that every learner begin their journey with GitLab, by taking the GitLab Foundations course. This fundamental course will give you and introduction to the GitLab product, licensing model, and how to transact with GitLab.
The GitLab Sales Professional Learning Pathway is ideal for Account Executives and Sales Engineers. Learn about the core features, use cases and solutions that GitLab provides. The GitLab Sales Professional contains 4 courses: GitLab Foundations, Understanding DevSecOps, GitLab Customers, Pitching GitLab. Each course contains 3-5 lessons and knowledge checks. There is a final exam at the end of the learning pathway, upon passing learners will be awarded the GitLab Sales Professional Accreditation.
After completing this training, learners will be familiar with GitLab's core usecases, ideal customer profile and buyer personas, and how to pitch the DevSecOps platform story.
This learning pathway takes approximately 3 hours to complete.
This fundamental course is designed for pre-sales technical professionals such as Solutions Architects or Sales Engineers and goes in depth demonstrating, deploying, integrating, and optimizing GitLab Solutions. The GitLab Solutions Architect Core meets the program requirements for pre-sales technical accreditation.
Course Content Summary (approx 40 minutes to complete)
Prerequisites: GitLab Foundations for Partners
GitLab Partner Technical Engineer (PTE) accreditation is a technical deep dive to help partners validate their ability to deliver implementation, migration, and consulting services to customers. This accreditation consists of six modules. Upon completion learners will possess the skills needed to deploy the GitLab Platform, migrate data to GitLab, and provide workflow advisory services for customers.
The Partner Technical Engineer learning pathway consists of 6 courses: Git Essentials, Project Management, CI/CD, Security, Implementation, and migration. There is a final exam at the end of the learning pathway, upon passing learners will be awarded the GitLab Partner Technical Engineer Accreditation.
This learning pathway takes approximately 6 hours to complete.
All enablement materials can be accessed via the GitLab Partner Portal. Job aides, white papers, and battlecards can be found in the central library when you log in.
To sign up for any of the courses listed on this page, please visit the training section on the GitLab Partner Portal and select Level Up. You do not require a separate login or credentials to access the GitLab Training Portal from the Partner Portal.
To sign up for any of the courses listed on this page, please visit the Alliance Partner Learning Dashboard and enter the unique validation code provided to you via your SA and/or ABDM.
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