Hello, my name is victor, I am the product manager of the configure group and I would like to share with you this amazing news that it was approved uh to move basic ptops functionality of the gitlab agent for kubernetes to gitlab free tier. What is what is the scope of this change with the agent?

We have several features that are built on top of it. One is who based deployments, push-based deployments, uh container network security uh container window with scanning, and hopefully more will come soon. This change affects on the first one, the pool based deployments model there. The currently existing features are to be moved to gitlab free. At the same time, you already have on our roadmap set of features that will still stay in premium.

This set of features is the equivalent of the cut that we have with the ci cd workflow, with the push-based workflow, that is by default. Every agent uses the service account for all the actions that it does. So when you run a cube, ctrl apply that happens with the service event of the agent.

In the ci cd case, we have something called impersonation how you can restrict the agent to have a more restricted set of permissions and act as a different user given the cluster. Basically, this is a premium feature and the same feature for the pool based deployments will be premium as well. So the only feature that's moved to core is the pool based deployment with the service account of the agent itself.

What is the timeline of this change? Of course, with all similarly amazing uh changes, we would like to do it as soon as possible. At the same time, we only have four back-end engineers and five track categories to take care of which means that this it will take at least a couple of months to to get here. I hope that by july it will be shipped in the product, but I didn't promise you anything here.

Thank you for listening to this, for, if you have any questions related to this change, please reach out to us in the s configure channel. We are there to answer all your questions.