The pilot needs centralized artifact evidence without replacing the release controls the customer already trusts.
Artifact traceability protects release confidence, while unchanged promotion controls protect the evaluation timeline.
Who you’d be doing this for
“Yesterday I had to open four projects just to show where one container came from.”
Moira Campbell · DevOps Engineer
Operates the customer’s pilot CI/CD pipelines and prepares artifact evidence for release review.
What is at stake
Release reviewers are manually rebuilding artifact histories across project registries. You must weigh centralized traceability against a pilot scope that leaves trusted promotion controls intact.
Why it isn’t already fixed
Every obvious fix costs something else. That’s the part you’d have to decide.
- centralized artifact evidence vs unchanged release controls
- fast pilot proof vs reusable deployment pattern
- pipeline simplicity vs provenance completeness
- customer ownership vs bespoke configuration
Why Gitlab
GitLab Dedicated and Artifact Central put source, pipeline, and artifact evidence on the same customer-controlled platform.
Written with these in mind
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This is the setup. The work is inside.
Running it puts you in the room: the full situation and its constraints, stakeholders who push back in their own words, and the decisions that are yours to make. What you produce becomes a Day One Plan — work you can show someone instead of describing.