Building GitLab with GitLab: A multi-region service to deliver AI features

This post details the development of 'Runway', an internal platform built on GitLab features, to provision, deploy, and operate multi-region containerized services. It highlights the use of GitLab CI/CD, environments, deployments, Terraform, OpenID Connect with GCP Workload Identity Federation, Projects API, CI/CD variables, Job Token allowlist, Pages for schema documentation, CI/CD templates, Releases, Container Registry, Trigger Pipelines, and Multi-Project Pipelines. The platform enables self-service infrastructure for service owners, focusing on low-latency AI features by leveraging multi-region deployments with global load balancing and regional resource provisioning.