GitLab accelerates cloud native developer workflows
By leveraging Kubernetes and managed services for Google Cloud, GitLab helped to lower the barrier of adoption for customers looking to architect scalable cloud native applications.
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GitLab needed to simplify DevOps integration for its customers while providing a hybrid-ready, scalable solution backed by 24x7x365 support.
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Most companies today are software companies, leveraging their data to create apps that enhance the customer experience. Integrating software development with IT operations (DevOps) can enable companies to move faster and release high-quality software more often. However, DevOps can be complex, especially if development and operations teams are using disparate applications.
More than 100,000 organizations around the globe turn to GitLab, a single application spanning the entire DevOps lifecycle. By enabling concurrent DevOps, GitLab allows customers to plan, build, test and ship their best software faster.
GitLab offers its users two deployment choices: a software-as-a-service offering hosted by GitLab called GitLab.com, or a self-managed instance that can be deployed on-premises, in the public cloud or almost anywhere. GitLab sought partners that could provide superior hosting, service and support to provide a better hosted option. The company decided to move its hosted GitLab.com service from Microsoft® Azure® to Google Cloud™ enabled by Intel 2nd gen Xeon Scalable Processors, opting for always-on support and service from Rackspace Technology, a managed services partner for Google Cloud.
“We partner with Rackspace Technology because we have the utmost respect for the way they treat customers,” says Brandon Jung, Vice President Alliances at GitLab. “We also know that many of our customers will need a managed services partner for their cloud journey. Rackspace Technology has the scale, the skills and the culture to help our customers get to where they need to be.”
“We partner with Rackspace Technology because we have the utmost respect for the way they treat customers. We also know that many of our customers will need a managed services partner for their cloud journey. Rackspace has the scale, the skills and the culture to help our customers get to where they need to be.”
Three essentials for digital transformation
Since GitLab moved its GitLab.com service to Google Cloud, performance has improved, security is enhanced and availability increased from 99.61% to 99.95%. To make it easy for self-managed users to set up Kubernetes for GitLab in the public cloud, GitLab announced native integration with Kubernetes Engine, giving users a simple way to deploy applications on Google Cloud with just a few clicks.
“Kubernetes is a big deal to developers, and Google Cloud gives us a really good underlying infrastructure and a consistent platform to deploy to,” says Jung. “Without Kubernetes Engine, shipping and securing code would be a much more difficult process than it is today.”
GitLab and Google Cloud are aiming to lower the barrier of adoption for customers looking to architect scalable, cloud native solutions. With this goal in mind, GitLab is also giving customers an easy-to-use front end to Anthos, a hybrid and multi-cloud platform based on Kubernetes. Customers can now deploy workloads to Anthos using the same GitLab-based developer workflows they’re already familiar with, helping them build and modernize applications even faster.
“Working with Google Cloud and Rackspace Technology lets us offer customers three essential capabilities for digital transformation,” says Jung. “We help customers develop and quickly ship their software, Google Cloud makes sure that their code can run, scale, and stay available, and Rackspace Technology provides the support engine for the entire platform.”
“Our GitLab.com instance is the largest GitLab instance in the world, and it runs seamlessly on Google Cloud. Rackspace Technology can help any customer build, ship and patch like we do, because they see it every day at scale. If they can do it for us, they can do it for you.”
Connecting the world’s largest all-remote company
GitLab is the largest fully remote company in the world, pioneering a new way of working that many other successful companies are now embracing. It carefully chooses technology partners that can help enable and empower GitLab’s collaborative culture. To allow employees and contributors in 50 countries to collaborate and feel part of the same team, GitLab uses G Suite, relying on Docs to structure meetings, coedit and share information and manage incidents.
“We’re a global 24x7 company, and we work asynchronously using G Suite,” says Tina Sturges, Manager of Partner and Channel Marketing at GitLab. “That’s some of the beauty that we have, and it’s a big part of why we’re successful. We can have people in all these countries, across multiple time zones, and it all just works.”
Rackspace Technology further fosters the all-remote team collaboration for GitLab, as it provides its services 24x7x365, anywhere in the world.
Since GitLab moved its GitLab.com service to Google Cloud, performance has improved, security is enhanced and availability increased from 99.61% to 99.95%.
Managing the largest DevOps environments
Today, business success is inextricably linked to successful software development, which requires the ability to execute on a vision rapidly and reliably. Running GitLab instances on Google Cloud with Rackspace Managed Services gives companies a proven way to accelerate their development velocity at enterprise scale. No matter where a company is on its cloud journey, Rackspace Technology can help it scale on Google Cloud.
“Rackspace can help companies of any size accelerate their digital transformation, consolidate technical debt and realize more value from Google Cloud,” says Brice Wilkinson, GitLab’s account executive at Rackspace. “They won’t be bottlenecked, because they have a partner like Rackspace Technology that’s ready to help.”
“Our GitLab.com instance is the largest GitLab instance in the world, and it runs seamlessly on Google Cloud,” says Jung. “Rackspace Technology can help any customer build, ship and patch like we do, because they see it every day at scale. If they can do it for us, they can do it for you.”
About Rackspace Technology
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