Auto DevOps

Our direction for “Auto DevOps” is to leverage our single application to assist users in every phase of the development and delivery process, implementing automatic tasks that can be customized and refined to get the best fit for their needs.

With the dramatic increase in the number of projects being managed by software teams (especially with the rise of micro-services), it's no longer enough to just craft your code. In addition, you must consider all of the other aspects that will make your project successful, such as tests, quality, security, logging, monitoring, etc. It's no longer acceptable to add these things only when they are needed, or when the project becomes popular, or when there's a problem to address; on the contrary, all of these things should be available at inception.

e.g. “auto CI” to compile and test software based on best practices for the most common languages and frameworks, “auto review” with the help of automatic analysis tools like Code Climate, “auto deploy” based on Review Apps and incremental rollouts on Kubernetes clusters, and “auto metrics” to collect statistical data from all the previous steps in order to guarantee performances and optimization of the whole process. Dependencies and artifacts will be first-class citizens in this world: everything must be fully reproducible at any given time, and fully connected as part of the great GitLab experience.

Watch the video explaining our vision on Auto DevOps.

Interested in joining the conversation for this category? Please join us in our public epic where we discuss this topic and can answer any questions you may have. Your contributions are more than welcome.

What's Next & Why

As the Kubernetes project rapidly matures and some of its API endpoints are deprecated/removed, we must ensure all the components of Auto DevOps currently interacting with its API are updated to ensure its continuing successful function.

Auto DevOps readiness for Kubernetes 1.16

Maturity Plan

This category is currently at the "Minimal" maturity level, and our next maturity target is Viable. See the Auto DevOps viable epic for more info. Deliverables:

Auto DevOps readiness for Kubernetes 1.16

Group Ownership

Auto Devops ties together several feature from across GitLab product categories. Each individual feature will have its own maturity classification.

Feature	Reponsible GitLab Group
Auto Build	Configure
Auto Test	Testing
Auto Code Quality	Testing
Auto SAST	Static Analysis
Auto Secret Detection	Static Analysis
Auto Dependency Scanning	Composition
Auto License Compliance	Composition
Auto Container Scanning	Composition
Auto Review Apps	Progressive Delivery
Auto DAST	Dynamic Analysis
Auto Browser Performance Testing	Testing
Auto Load Performance testing	Testing
Auto Deploy	Progressive Delivery
Auto Monitoring	APM

Competitive Landscape

While there are "piece-meal" solutions that offer to automate a particular stage, there are no comprehensive tools that offer to address the entire devops lifecycle.