Tag: GitLab

Shaping the Future of DevSecOps

Posted on by Gil Nizri

Here’s a moment from the IBM AI-DevOps Tech Event in NYC (Aug 26, 2025).

On stage with me (from left to right):

  • Brett Egloff, Director, Global Alliances (IBM & Red Hat) at GitLab
  • Imran Hashmi, DevOps Sales Leader for the Americas at IBM
  • James Hunter, AI DevSecOps Product Leader at IBM

It was a privilege to meet Brett and highlight the synergy between IBM, GitLab, and DBmaestro within the AI-DevOps Loop platform:

  • IBM’s AI-DevOps Loop provides the foundation – integrating AI-driven insights and governance across the lifecycle.
  • GitLab orchestrates the end-to-end DevOps journey for applications.
  • DBmaestro extends DevSecOps to the database, with AI-powered automation, policy enforcement, governance, and bulletproof rollbacks.

Together, the three platforms form a seamless, AI-driven DevSecOps ecosystem – closing the last mile of DevOps, eliminating blind spots, and ensuring productivity, compliance, and resilience at enterprise scale.

A big thank you to Imran and James for hosting. Standing with IBM, GitLab, and DBmaestro on one stage truly felt like a consortium of leaders shaping the future of DevSecOps.

 

Skimpflation or Automation?
A corporate choice to be made

Posted on by Gil Nizri

Customers report on a new phenomena; many companies and brands are struggling to deliver the same services and experience they have delivered in the past. Some call it Skimpflation; a situation where companies are responding to a major change such as higher costs, and the reduction in the quality of a service. Skimpflation means consumers get less for the same terms (not only on price).

This challenging delivery is the symptom, yet its impact goes beyond temporary dissatisfaction from sudden service hiccups. In today’s world, prompt response to your customers, your channel, and your data consumers are what distinguishes between market leaders and other players. There are many to blame; shortage in skilled people, the growing workload, working in silos due to Covid pandemic, the great resignation, and other valid reasons are a fact. Both heaven and competition can’t wait.

Companies must increase and harness automation which addresses these challenges. The time is right for reviewing the corporate delivery chain, identifying the weak points, bottlenecks, and suggesting automated hands-free processes that are cheaper, faster and safer. One example is how companies are improving their data delivery mechanism.  Legacy systems with costly development and maintenance from years past, and which require tedious amounts of work and resources continue with high end costs. These areas are prime targets for hands-free processes and automation.

The pumping heart of most organizations resides in an unexpected place; the in-house software factory. These great development teams are responsible to streamline all data deliverables both inside and outside of the company’s firewall. In many firms these processes are still manual and human powered. The expected result creates a bottleneck.

Skimpflation has become a daily choice created by avoiding modernization and automation in the data delivery infrastructure. DBmaestro, leading provider of database release automation empowers developer teams’ productivity, freeing them from the manual code reviews and optimizing their use of time. DBmaestro empowers development teams to do more with less. Our platform boosts your team’s performance and smoothly and safely enables you to cross over the database delivery chasm.

GitOps – Key Success Factor in Database Release Automation

Posted on by Gil Nizri

Modern development architecture is designed with speed and scale in mind.

Deploying code to production hundreds of times a day/week is common practice for many organizations. Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) automation is the best way to accomplish robust, safe, and secure DB version releases. Git plays a meaningful role in tracking these changes and coordinating work among programmers collaboratively developing the code during software development. GitOps is the best practice to orchestrate, manage and govern these complex development workflows, ensuring successful completion of every activity in these task-savvy and tedious processes. GitOps simplifies and streamlines the development process and enables building a visible and reproducible infrastructure that reduces load-cost and increases team productivity.

DBmaestro is the best practice for deploying GitOps for the database. Our DevSecOps platform seamlessly integrates into the Git workflow, pushing and pulling database change-code into and out of the repository. The platform enforces corporate data security policy and automatically generates database code changes that set a new high-quality corporate coding standard. DBmaestro is the Git Go-To-Deployment platform for the database. DBmaestro empowers developers to achieve hyper-productivity with automated tracking of all database changes and automatic change-code generation.

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Conclusion

DBmaestro, the leading solution provider for the DevOps platform, launched its first GitOps solution back in 2017. The accumulated experience gained by serving thousands of developers worldwide validates a fine-tuned GitOps solution that fits any size development team. DBmaestro uses simplicity to empower database release automation and makes GitOps on-demand for the development team. Smooth and prompt adoption of these proven best practices shortens the gap for successful GitOps deployment by every Waterfall and DevOps developer. GitOps powered by DBmaestro is essential to achieving fine-tuned, orchestrated, secured and fully governed database release automation.

 

[VIDEO] End-to-End CI/CD with GitLab and DBmaestro

Posted on by Yaniv Yehuda

GitLab requires no further introduction, but database delivery automation tools are much less known.  So before touching on the specifics of this potent tech combo, let’s have a quick look at the functionality of the DBmaestro database automation platform.

  • Database release automation
  • Database source control
  • Database compliance automation

DBmaestro is a database release automation solution that can blend the database delivery process seamlessly into your current DevOps ecosystem with minimal fuss, and without complex installation or maintenance. Its handy database pipeline builder allows you to package, verify, and deploy, and gives you the ability to pre-run the next release in a provisional environment to detect errors early.

You get a zero-friction pipeline, which is often not the case with database delivery process. That being said, there is probably no escaping last-minute changes like version re-alignments and hotfixes, actions that often lead to configuration drifts. DBmaestro’s Release Automation Module nullifies these issues by automatically detecting them and alerting you before it becomes an issue.

Related: Demystifying Database Configuration Drifts

Introduction to the demo video

In the “End-to-End CI/CD with GitLab and DBmaestro”  tech demo video, you will get to see DBmaestro’s integration prowess, which allows users to orchestrate things from within GitLab itself. This is an end-to-end solution that helps you automate your database delivery process with zero issues, regardless of the environment (or environments) you are currently implementing.

All of this functionality comes with a user-friendly and initiative dashboard, which gives you a 360 view of your projects. Easily learn about the current status, see when the last change was made to each of them, and get tons of relevant information. This enhanced visibility is not achievable with most third-party tools, not to mention manual processes that are marred with errors as a result.

What Will You Learn From This Video?

Yaniv Yehuda, Co-Founder and CTO of DBmaestro will be showing how GitLab and DBmaestro work together to transform your DevOps pipeline.

  • Automated Delivery Process – Application and Database changes are traditionally siloed, with broken feedback loops and a lack of communication between DBAs and developers. This is in addition to deployment bottlenecks caused by manual processes, which are too slow and error-prone for today’s dynamic CI/CD pipelines.

What You’ll Learn? How database changes can be integrated smoothly and automatically by using GitLab and DBmaestro in tandem.  

  • Empowering Cross-Team Collaboration – The emergence of DevOps made life extremely difficult for DBAs and database teams, as the sheer volume of database delivery tasks that have to be manually handled skyrocketed, making them the weak link in the pipeline. But with DBmaestro automating most ongoing tasks, DBAs can focus on high-value tasks and easily enforce change policy in the database, while version controlling everything.

What You’ll Learn? DBAs can now be real stakeholders in the DevOps pipeline, while actively managing changes and monitoring all changes.  

  • Database Governance – With multiple teams working remotely or from multiple locations DBAs are having a hard time managing roles and permissions. Manual processes are no longer enough. Multiple stakeholders need to access the database simultaneously, something that only a centralized solution like DBmaestro can solve.

What You’ll Learn? DBAs can now easily modify or revoke permissions, while defining exact roles for each stakeholder with out-of-the-box policies. 

The automated creation of a database audit history also allows organizations to be better prepared for compliance checks and inspections. A single source of truth for all users, deployments, and database-related actions are automatically tracked and available on-demand, making it easy for DBAs, executives, and regulatory authorities to stay on top of things.

Related: Top 10 Database Compliance Best Practices

Who Should  Watch This Video and Why?

First and foremost, in this quick tech demo, we will show a hands-on approach DBAs and database professionals can use to boost their productivity and take their performance metrics to a whole new level. IT teams and developers can also gain from this on-demand webinar by learning about the benefits of database delivery automation and version control.

What are the overall benefits of having GitLab and DBmaestro running together? First of all database delivery automation brings with it a massive Shift-Left and helps the database to get in line with the speedy application development.  Feedback loops are significantly shortened for better cross-team collaboration and faster delivery, which also means you improve your time-to-market while improving quality. A win-win scenario.

Hit the link below for the “End-to-End CI/CD with GitLab and DBmaestro” tech demo video to learn how you can achieve a repeatable, safe, and sustainable automated database.