How Carrefour and Thales are evolving their CI/CD platforms

Carrefour and Thales are evolving their CI/CD platforms by migrating from heterogeneous environments and Jenkins to GitLab. They are aiming for full automation of build, test, release, versioning, and deployment processes, including canary deployments and feature flags. They are leveraging GitLab Ultimate features, migrating source code, and integrating SAST, DAST, secret detection, and SCA to improve developer autonomy and speed up feedback loops. This post highlights their scale (30,000 projects, 70,000 issues, 280,000 merge requests at Thales; 10,000 projects, 100,000 commits/month at Carrefour) and their goals of migrating off Bitbucket and Jenkins, and improving developer autonomy and feedback speed.