GitLab 14.9 Release Kickoff, 16 Feb 2022

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From YouTube: GitLab 14.9 Kickoff - Enablement:Distribution

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Kickoff for the Distribution group for the GitLab 14.9 release.

Planning issue - https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/distribution/team-tasks/-/issues/993

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Hello: everyone, my name, is dylan arino and I'm the product manager for distribution, and today, I'm going to be kicking off our 14.9 release.

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As always, this is our schedule issue with our product priorities listed at the top. The first issue that we are tackling our product priority is fips. Compliance. Next is distribution efficiency, then operator, certification, secure solution for managing omnibus configuration secrets and, finally, rounding out the list, any tech debt that we can accomplish.

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So moving into more detail on this list. We have our distribution, specific pips compliance issue.

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As you can see, we've been making great progress in closing out many of these issues in 14.9 and a couple left out in the open, um specifically within 14.9, we're going to address, creating pips compliance checks for components that we own in distribution, and also I want to shout out one that we completed in 14.8- is our investigation in fips compliance and kubernetes, and I expect that we will get some issues from this investigation, so we'll likely try and schedule those for 14.9, because it's our top product priority.

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Not only is it a benefit from security for being fixed compliant, but also a benefit to customers that want to utilize us, but currently can't because we are not compliant so moving on. We've got one of our efficiency projects, which is improving our team pipelines, which will help us create.

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You know more efficient processes in you know in these pipelines and allowing us to roll up features more quickly and not spend so much time on these pipelines um and semi-related to pipeline efficiency is supporting gitlab on amazon, linux, 2 and so in 14.9.

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We hope to accomplish uh building an omnibus package for amazon links to and officially um you know, provide support at least internally, and when I say support, I mean we're supporting the architecture.

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So basically, we want, to you know, support amazon links to as a distribution, because we've been seeing increasing demand for it, and so this is a great thing that we're going to hopefully roll out in 14.9, one of the other ones. That I mentioned is our operator certification.

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We have been working towards this for a few weeks now, basically immediately after we actually made the operator general available. The next step is getting it red hat certified there are benefits to being in the red hat marketplace, but also we know that we we can stand behind a product, that red hat also stands behind by being officially certified, and so we're getting very close here, um a couple of last ones is we need.

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We need to make sure that all of the container images we use have ubi variants to be listed in the marketplace, and so right now we're on the last one here, which is investigating um how we can build a ubi variant for our ingress and genex controller, um and so that will basically unblock these other issues as well, which uh we hope to accomplish in 14.9, so um expecting the timeline of these to be done. Fourteen eight, we hope to tackle these in 14.9 once these are unblocked.

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Moving on is our secure solution for managing omnibus configuration secrets. You might have seen this issue before and we're making some steady progress on this solution um as we move forward for 14.9. We are specifically going to be addressing all rails passwords stored in our gitlab.rb file and, as you can see, there's a couple different.

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uh You know types of passwords here and so the first one that we're going to be tackling is specifically incoming email, passwords in the rails code base, and so these are all great value ads and really round out our product priorities list. So thank you very much for watching and I hope you have a great rest. Your day.