How GitLab eliminates value stream friction in dev environments

This post introduces and details GitLab Review Environments, a feature that automates the lifecycle management of developer environments. It addresses the problems of environment sprawl, cost, and configuration rot by automatically provisioning an environment when a new branch is created and tearing it down when the code is merged. The post highlights how this approach eliminates friction in the development value stream by making environments immutable and isolated on a per-feature branch basis. It also demonstrates extending this capability beyond Kubernetes to other PaaS offerings.