Eliran Mesika, Director of Strategic Partnerships at GitLab, presents the roadmap for GitLab's upcoming features and product approach. Key updates include enhancements to group management, deployment monitoring, and new integration capabilities with MS Teams, as well as plans for future releases like multiple assignees for issues and improved high availability. GitLab emphasizes a fast and efficient shipping schedule, with solid monthly releases focused on the full ALM flow, backed by a robust community of over 1600 contributors.

1. GitLab Roadmap
May 10th

2. Speaker
Who Am I?
Eliran Mesika
Director of Strategic Partnerships
What I do @ GitLab:
❏ Strategic Collaborations for Distribution
❏ Product Integrations & Go-To-Market
❏ Corporate Business Development
https://www.linkedin.com/in/eliranmesika/
https://twitter.com/eliran_mesika

3. Product Approach
How Do We Do Product

4. Product Approach
How Does GitLab Build Its Roadmap
❏ Short Term Resolution - We closely plan for the next 2 to 3 releases
❏ Ship Often, Ship Fast - Every 22nd of the month we have a release. They are always solid!
❏ We Are Focused on The Full ALM Flow - Idea to production
❏ Distinguish between Community Edition, Enterprise Edition Starter and Premium
❏ Our Community is Big - Over 1600 contributors strong

5. Looking Back
Let’s start with GitLab 9.0 and 9.1

6. GitLab 9.0
New Features
❏ Sub Groups - Contain multiple projects with an hierarchy of up to 20 groups
❏ Deploy Boards - Overview of deployments across your environments (Kubernetes only)
❏ Export Issues - Take the conversation offline and analyze your issues with other teams
❏ Environment Monitoring - Track CPU and memory of your apps on each K8s environment
❏ Boards with Milestones - Create new boards for each sprint/dev cycle milestone
❏ Disaster Recovery Alpha - New features added to our GitLab GEO
❏ GitLab is Now Faster - Transactions times are now marginal, down from 10s of seconds

7. GitLab 9.1
New Features
❏ Service Desk - Support emails automatically turn to issues with a unique email address
❏ Canary Deployments - Controlled rollout of new code to production (Kubernetes)
❏ Burndown Charts - Track your work progress towards a milestone
❏ Discussions - Choose to comment or start a resolvable discussion
❏ MS Teams Integration

8. Moving Forward
What’s Up Ahead
about.gitlab.com/direction

9. Looking ahead
GitLab 9.2 & 9.3
❏ Multiple Assignees for Issue - Pick more than one assignee to an issue
❏ High Availability Package - A highly available GitLab installation OOTB
❏ Audit Log Improvements - Building a log system to meet regulatory demands
❏ Pipeline Dependency Visualization - Reflect pipeline dependencies in the pipeline view
❏ Run CI/CD Pipeline on a Schedule - Plan when to run a pipeline
❏ Block Pipelines on Protected Branches - Control pipelines on critical branches
❏ Protect Variables and Runners - Limit who can edit variable and runners

10. QUESTIONS?