How we designed the GitLab Reference Architectures

Five years since their inception, GitLab's Reference Architectures have evolved as pivotal frameworks for deploying GitLab at scale, providing organizations with scalable and elastic solutions tailored to their specific loads. Initially developed by GitLab's Test Platform and Support teams, these architectures address common challenges faced by customers in deploying GitLab efficiently, focusing on performance, availability, scalability, cost-effectiveness, and maintainability. The creation process involved collecting data from existing environments, defining prototype architectures, and iteratively testing them to handle target loads, eventually leading to the development of tools like the GitLab Performance Tool and GitLab Environment Toolkit. Described as "living documentation," these architectures continuously evolve with new sizes, guidance, and hybrid variants to meet diverse deployment needs and are tested weekly to ensure they remain effective and up-to-date with the latest GitLab code. These efforts have significantly aided numerous customers and GitLab's engineering teams, including the development of GitLab Dedicated, reinforcing GitLab's commitment to providing best-in-class guidance for the DevSecOps journey.

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