GitLab recently launched GitLab Dedicated, a one stop SaaS offering. This new offering provides more flexibility and higher freedom to the enterprise customers to comply with the enhanced industry regulations and data residency requirements. GitLab Dedicated allows users to utilise their enterprise DevSecOps platform as a single-tenant SaaS offering with additional focus on data residency, isolation and private networking to fulfil compliance needs. 

Why now? 

From small startups to global tech giants, GitLab boasts a wide variety of customers that one deployment model can not satisfy. According to their customers, they wanted a SaaS offering to meet compliance requirements as it needed additional deployment control and data residency. The need is more prevalent in larger organisations in regulated industries that are often under higher scrutiny, facing global internet policy fragmentation and are dealing with the increased complexity of data governance. 

GitLab’s Global DevSecOps survey of 2022 revealed that operations professionals are now at higher responsibility for compliance and most of them spend between one-quarter and one-half of their work week managing compliance and audits, which is a 15% rise from 2021.  

For some companies, the cloud is the sole way to make use of applications without bearing the cost of self-hosting. Owing to regulatory policies, the multi-tenant nature of cloud-based SaaS services makes it a difficult choice for some other companies. The team believes that no company should have to make a call by compromising on their efficiency and productivity as enterprises need more freedom on how to manage their data and where the data fits. 

GitLab Dedicated enables their DevSecOps platform to be available as a single-tenant SaaS solution. This new deployment option provides all the advantages of an enterprise DevSecOps platform with special attention to data residency, isolation and private networking to meet compliance requirements. 

Benefits 

GitLab Dedicated allows companies to take maximum advantage of the cloud while getting a completely isolated instance with no need of deploying and managing DevSecOps platform and cloud infrastructure on their own. It allows companies to respond to the stringent data residency rules. They can keep their data local to meet data isolation by opting for a cloud region that suits them and their regional needs. It provides additional flexibility to safeguard a private network of the organisation. You can avail GitLab Dedicated for your company by joining their waitlist.