Beyond CI/CD: GitLab's DevOps vision

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This post details the engineering strategy behind GitLab's DevOps vision, focusing on the evolution from CI/CD to a comprehensive DevOps platform. It introduces Auto DevOps as a key component and outlines future directions including an Ops Dashboard for monitoring production environments from an operator's perspective and a pipeline view of environments to visualize the flow of changes across different deployment stages (review apps, staging, production). The post emphasizes the technical rationale for integrating operations concerns into the DevOps lifecycle and the benefits of using a unified toolchain.