Beyond CI/CD: GitLab's DevOps vision

This post outlines GitLab's evolving DevOps vision, moving beyond CI/CD to encompass the entire software development lifecycle, including operations. It details the expansion of CI/CD capabilities to include review apps, deployment tracking, system monitoring (Prometheus), and future plans for business monitoring and load testing. The post introduces the concept of an 'Ops Dashboard' for a holistic view of production environments and service health, and proposes a 'Pipeline view of Environments' to better visualize the relationship between different deployment stages and merge requests. The core message is the integration of development and operations through a unified toolchain.