GitLab Delivery
The GitLab Delivery Stage focuses on enhancing the reliability, efficiency, and speed of GitLab’s end-to-end software delivery across all platforms and offerings.
This is a draft page and it is currently a work in progress
Mission
The GitLab Delivery mission is to streamline and optimize the delivery, release, and deployment of GitLab across all platforms—SaaS, Self-Managed, and Dedicated. We aim to enhance the reliability, scalability, and efficiency of our processes, enabling customers to seamlessly adopt, deploy, and scale GitLab solutions. By evolving our tools, automation, and architectural practices, we are committed to delivering a consistent, secure, and high-quality experience that empowers both internal teams and customers to achieve more, faster.
The GitLab Delivery Stage Vision is defined in the Infrastructure Platforms direction pages
Vision and Direction
Our vision and direction are located with other product direction pages here.
Roadmap
Stage roadmap will be listed here
Top-level Responsibilities
GitLab Delivery stage is responsible for ensuring seamless, reliable, and efficient delivery of high-quality software. We focus on optimizing workflows, enabling collaboration, and driving continuous improvement to meet customer needs
Teams
The GitLab Delivery Stage is composed by the following teams:
TBD
How We Live Our Values
The Delivery Stage endeavors to embody our CREDIT values through our daily work. Here are a few examples:
- Psychological Safety: We aim to make sure that every member of the Delivery stage can show up to work as their full selves. We do our best to keep the feedback loop as short as possible.
- Celebrating wins: We take moments to publicly celebrate the hard work our teams do. Whether it’s a demo or a few sentences in the #thanks channel, we want to make sure that our gratitude for our team’s contributions are made known.
On-call duties
- Release Manager ownership
- Build and Deploy Pipeline DRI
Project Management
GitLab Delivery Stage has an entry level Epic that collects all the groups roadmaps and projects in progress as a single view. This epic is also used for the weekly Grand Review
Issue Boards
Each working epic should be accompanied by an issue board. Issue boards should be tailored to the specific project needs, but at minimum it should contain the workflow labels shown on the workflow diagram.
GitLab Delivery AMA and Demo
Needs to be scheduled, starting in January 2026
History
Stage history will come here
The primary user persona for Distribution is the system administrator responsible for managing a GitLab instance. The team goals are to make it as easy as possible to deploy, scale, upgrade, and fine tune a GitLab instance on a range of on-prem and cloud platforms.
The Operate team enables operators to deploy and maintain GitLab environments at any scale through standardized tooling, reference architectures, and operational excellence frameworks. We deliver the deployment infrastructure and operational tooling for GitLab deployments.
The Build team focuses on artifacts our customers use to deploy GitLab. This includes system packages, container images, and packages on cloud provider marketplaces. Build team members serve as the bridge between development teams and the end users. Build engineers provide tools and expertise that enable efficient component builds and deliver a simple, secure, and dependable installation experience.
The Release & Deploy group enables GitLab Engineering to deliver features in a safe, scalable and efficient fashion to both GitLab.com, GitLab Dedicated and self-managed customers.
