Building GitLab with GitLab: How GitLab.com inspired Dedicated

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This post details the development of GitLab Dedicated, a single-tenant SaaS offering. It highlights the architectural decisions made to automate deployments using the GitLab Environment Toolkit (GET) and Terraform, leveraging AWS managed services for databases (RDS, Elasticache, OpenSearch), and implementing a private monitoring stack within customer AWS accounts. It also introduces features exclusive to Dedicated, such as Bring Your Own Key, Switchboard for management, and PrivateLink networking, contrasting these with the multi-tenant GitLab.com architecture.