Using GitLab Labels

This post details how a team adopted GitLab labels to organize their infrastructure-as-code workflow. It explains the purpose of labels for directing focus and workflow, lists 11 adopted labels with their descriptions and automatic application status, and describes how these labels are used in the merge request process to indicate status like 'Needs Review', 'Blocked', and 'Ready to Deploy'. The post highlights how this system improved the ability to quickly identify MRs needing attention.