GitLab and Google Cloud partner to deliver privacy-first AI offerings for enterprise DevSecOps

GitLab and Google Cloud Platform have announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to deliver new privacy-first AI offerings to enterprise customers. The DevSecOps platform will use Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform to deliver new generative AI-assisted features to developers as part of its DevSecOps solution to help speed up the development lifecycle.

GitLab plans to improve its customers' DevSecOps workflow efficiency by 10x, by applying AI-assisted workflows to all users involved in delivering software value. The first experimental feature leveraging Google Cloud's generative AI models is called Explain this Vulnerability. This capability empowers companies to make security a cross-organizational effort, by providing users with a natural language description of vulnerabilities found in their code and a recommendation for how to resolve them at the time of detection.

Explain this Vulnerability joins GitLab's experimental-level features such as Explain this Code, Summarize Issue Comments, and Summarize Merge Request Changes, and its existing AI-enabled features, Code Suggestions, and Suggested Reviewers, which are focused on driving developer productivity beyond code development, and improving workflow automation for all users throughout the software development lifecycle.

Overall, the partnership between GitLab and Google Cloud is a significant step forward in the development of AI-assisted workflows for enterprise customers. By leveraging the power of generative AI models, GitLab aims to provide developers with the tools they need to improve their workflow efficiency and deliver better software value to their customers. The future of DevSecOps looks brighter than ever, thanks to this innovative partnership.