GitLab Well Architected

Engineering guidance for GitLab
Practical patterns for reliable automation, sound architecture, and systems that scale with your organization.
Plan · Build · Operate
Choose your starting point
Explore best practices, follow a practitioner guide, or try an agentic workflow for your next project.
Explore six areas of GitLab practice through design principles, actionable recommendations, and checklists.
Copyable guides for GitLab Duo Agent Platform, with every flow, example, and evaluation kept together.
Work through GitLab implementation and operating tasks, from preparation to a result you can verify.
Explore the standard behind the security practices you put into use with the practitioner guide.
Explore how teams can bring AI into the way they plan, build, and deliver software.