🚀 Now live: automated deployment tracking for GitLab

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Earlier this year, we announced deployment tracking and gating for GitHub to help simplify change intake and approval in Jira Service Management.

Now, we’re expanding our set of CI/CD tool integrations by introducing automated change tracking for GitLab. This new integration lets you automatically capture new GitLab deployments as change requests in Jira Service Management, making it easier for ops to maintain an audit trail of changes, without asking developers to submit change requests manually.

Take a look here:

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How it works: the developer experience

When you enable deployment tracking for GitLab, your developers will be able to track their changes in Jira Service Management automatically, without switching away from their existing workflow.

Starting from GitLab, the developer will go through the same commit process as usual:

Once they commit the changes, if it’s in an environment where deployment tracking is enabled, a change request will be automatically created in Jira Service Management, logging and making it visible to your change advisory board.

This enables your team to streamline the flow of work between your Dev and IT Ops teams, enabling developers to deliver to your customers faster while your IT teams maintain clear visibility of changes being made to your most critical environments.

Setting up GitLab deployment tracking for your Jira Service Management project

Already using GitLab and interested in using deployment tracking with Jira Service Management? Check out this support article we put together to take you through setup step-by-step.

Let us know what you think! Feel free to drop any questions or suggestions here, or submit it via our feedback portal.

[David Berclaz]

@Prithwish Basu thanks for sharing!

I've been in contact with some organizations which had the need to also create the corresponding Jira versions and automatically update Jira versions (fixVersion field) of the related Jira tickets.

We are working on a GitLab integration that will automatically add Jira versions (if they don't exist) and the update the fixVersion or the tickets related to the deployments. If you are interested in this EAP, read this documentation article and click on the link in the end.

Also, you may want to read this article (+ JiraCon video in the end):
Release Management in Jira: Best Practices

Cheers,

David

[Zach Cooper]

This is awesome! Any plans to bring similar functionality to Azure DevOps?