GitLab's 2018 Product Vision: Prototype demo

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This post outlines GitLab's 2018 product vision, emphasizing the expansion of the platform to cover the complete DevOps lifecycle, including Operations and Security as primary user groups. It details a prototype demonstrating how developers, operations, and security teams can work concurrently on the same data. For developers, it showcases enhanced merge request views with test summaries, artifact/container image links, security testing (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning), performance analysis, license compliance checks, and code quality/coverage alerts. For operations, it introduces an operations health dashboard with project status indicators, cluster resource usage, and the vision for autoscaling and automated issue resolution. The security flow highlights a dedicated Security Audit view for vulnerability tracking and automated remediation via merge requests created by a bot, including automatic deployment and rollback capabilities.