GitLab / Technical Marketing

Measuring the efficiency of your software development lifecycle is an important step to grow DevOps adoption for any organization. In the previous milestone, we added API support for lead time for changes at the project level. These metrics give you an indication of throughput so you know how long it takes for code to be committed and deployed to your production environment. In this release, you can now access this capability in the GitLab UI through the CI/CD dashboard, where a new graph will show the lead time for changes with the ability to view different time ranges, such as the last week, last month, or the last 90 days. In addition to the new graph, we have also added support for this API on the group level, allowing you to get aggregated lead time for changes metrics from all the projects that belong to the group.

ECS Task Definition from local JSON
Introduced in GitLab 13.3, ECS Task Definition from local JSON allows you to have the ECS Task Definition file in your GitLab repository. This means that you can exploit our version control and collaboration capabilities to maintain this file. Likewise, you can extend your organizations audit and compliance regulations to the Task Definition of your ECS services, have many stakeholders collaborate on the configuration and development of the Task Definition, and rollback to a previous version of the file, if needed. Lastly, this new feature helps you streamline your AWS deployments.

Edit Feature Flag User Lists from the UI

Introduced in Gitlab 13.3, Edit Feature Flag User Lists allow you to create and manage lists of users from the GitLab User Interface. Once created, you can target these lists in strategies inside your Feature Flag.

Highlights of the April 2020 Strategic Marketing Group Conversation Update

While there are many CI tools in the market, many of them are too complex to get started, not straightforward, without useful documentation, resulting in a long time to value, frustrated teams, and high total cost of ownership.


To be successful, you should look for a tool that enables you to deliver value in a short timeframe, in hours or days, not weeks.

To maximize development time and improve team productivity, you will need a tool that will allow you to automate everything or almost everything you do. Also, this tool must be easy enough to configure, so you will focus most of your time on developing, and less on setting the tool and maintaining it.

We are creating a series of videos to show specific capabilities required in the customer use cases we are focusing on. This is a review of MVC2 for License Compliance capability of the DevSecOps use case, as we work towards establishing standards and the flow that we want all these demos to have.