Kyle Persohn & Sean Corkum, Northwestern Mutual | GitLab Commit 2020
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Northwestern Mutual shifts from slow ticket queues to GitLab CI as the single pipeline for SCM, CI and provisioning, running GitLab itself on Kubernetes in AWS for high availability and easier scaling. They replace stale API keys with role‑based access and rotating credentials via Kubernetes IAM to shrink the attack surface and speed deployments from weeks to minutes. They report success at improving security posture and velocity but warn: don't use EFS for Git repo data.
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