Driving Cultural Change to Improve Software Development and CI/CD
summary
Starts as a rogue 2017 GitLab instance and scales into an on‑prem GitLab EE that consolidates dozens of separate repos and tools, grows to 2,500 projects across 350+ groups and ~500 users, and replaces slow ticketed provisioning with automated compliance via YAML meta files and a bot. Uses privileged runners, a custom MFA plugin, LDAP groups for restricted access (CUI/ITAR workflows), migration scripts for SVN/Mercurial, and delivers self‑service, lower cost, faster provisioning and measurable adoption.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction and overview
- 3:41Identifying the problem
- 7:56Six factors for success
- 11:33Automating compliance
- 15:15Key takeaways and advice
- 16:23Q&A session
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