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Updated January 2026

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BasilJiji
BasilJiji
System Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees
Role-based workflows have transformed daily deployments and improve team...
GitLab has role-based access control, so when a team member needs to make a code change, they cannot directly apply it to the environment but must put in a merge request. Once a senior reviews the code and approves it, then it is implemented across the environment, making it safer and allowing everyone to experience the process. The best...
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reviewer2787357
Site Reliability Engineer at a tech vendor with 1,001-5,000 employees
Centralized automation has transformed our devops workflow and now delivers faster...
A pain point I have encountered with GitLab is that large GitLab-ci.yml files become hard to read and maintain. YAML syntax is strict, and errors are easy to make, while debugging pipeline logic can sometimes take time, leading to slower iteration when the pipeline grows complex. I propose an improvement idea of better visual pipeline...

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