3 reasons why
Enterprises choose
GitLab for DevSecOps
GitLab for DevSecOps
One platform
for all your workflows
One platform
for all your workflows
Automated pipelines that eliminate manual handoffs
GitLab's CI/CD is built directly into the platform, not bolted on as a separate tool. With customizable pipelines, reusable components from the CI/CD catalog, and AI-powered optimization that can automatically fix failing pipelines, teams coordinate complex multi-stage deployments with full visibility and control.
Built-in enterprise Agile planning
Organizations need software and product planning to be integrated with the rest of the development lifecycle versus treated like a siloed activity. GitLab's Enterprise Agile Delivery is built into the same DevSecOps platform that development, security, and operations teams use to develop and deploy software, creating a more efficient experience and improving time to market.
Complete context
across the SDLC
Complete context
across the SDLC
GitLab's unified data model provides complete context across the entire software development lifecycle — spanning project requirements, code, dependencies, security, compliance, testing, deployment, and operations in a single semantic data layer. Unlike fragmented toolchains where context is lost across disconnected systems, this comprehensive organizational context dramatically improves AI quality, delivering better accuracy, faster resolution, and fewer model requests while enabling architectural visualization.
GitLab Orbit connects your code, merge requests, pipelines, and deployments into one queryable graph that every agent reads from. Instead of loading raw files into context windows and inferring relationships, agents traverse a pre-indexed graph of how your software system actually works. Every agent reasons from the same first-party context, whether it's GitLab Duo at zero rate, a third-party agent connected through Model Context Protocol, or a developer querying in natural language.
Flexible guardrails, consistent security
Flexible guardrails, consistent security
Flexible deployment options for your organization’s guardrails
Modern enterprises need deployment flexibility — especially organizations with complex security, compliance, and regulatory requirements. Choose from on-premises, multi-tenant SaaS, or GitLab Dedicated, our fully managed single-tenant SaaS solution.
Security throughout the entire workflow
GitLab embeds comprehensive security directly into DevSecOps workflows, enabling continuous threat detection and vulnerability management throughout the entire software lifecycle rather than at discrete stage checkpoints. From SAST and DAST to dependency scanning, secret detection, container scanning, and fuzz testing, security operates as an integrated component of intelligent orchestration — not a bolted-on afterthought.
Privacy-first AI, with the right model for the right use case
AI can be complex. At GitLab, our approach is straightforward: your code remains your code, unused for training or fine tuning of our own models. Code suggestions do not use customer code, and since GitLab isn't commercially tied to any LLM provider, we match the right model based on your use case. Easily choose what works for you, or change when a model no longer aligns to your business or technology strategy.
End-to-end compliance and auditability
Security-specific tools that aren't used consistently fail to protect organizations and their customers. GitLab's comprehensive governance solution enforces requirements across all projects, separating developer and security/compliance teams. Using our policy editor, you can customize approval rules to meet your business' compliance needs and reduce risk.
NatWest Group is adopting GitLab Dedicated to enable our engineers to use a common cloud engineering platform; delivering new customer outcomes rapidly, frequently and securely with high quality, automated testing, on demand infrastructure and straight-through deployment.
Adam Leggett
Platform Lead - Engineering Platforms, NatWest Group
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Other things enterprises love about GitLab
Other things enterprises love about GitLab
Cloud agnostic
Since GitLab isn't commercially tied to any specific cloud provider, you can de-risk your multi-cloud strategy and avoid being locked into a single vendor.
Open core
With GitLab's open core, you can build a solution that truly meets your needs — while shaping the future of our roadmap and DevSecOps.
A trusted platform
GitLab is #1 in Cloud-Native Application Delivery, Platform Engineering, Agile Software Delivery, and Regulated Delivery Use Cases in the 2025 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for DevOps Platforms report.
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