GitLab's guide to safe deployment practices

GitLab emphasizes the importance of safe deployment practices through progressive delivery, which allows for controlled exposure of changes to users and minimizes potential negative impacts. To enhance deployment safety, GitLab has introduced features such as protected environments, sequential deployment, and options to limit job concurrency, prevent deployment of outdated versions, and implement deployment freezes. Protected environments restrict deployment jobs to authorized personnel, ensuring controlled access. Sequential deployment addresses issues arising from the asynchronous nature of pipeline jobs by allowing only one job to run at a time, preventing conflicts and unintended rollbacks. The prevention of outdated version deployments cancels older jobs automatically when a newer one is executed, avoiding race conditions. Deployment freezes prevent any deployments during specific periods, such as holidays, ensuring stability when staffing might be limited. These features collectively enhance the security and reliability of the GitLab CI/CD pipeline.

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