GitLab Partners With Google Cloud To Launch Cloud Seed
- By CDOTrends editors
- October 17, 2022

With companies increasingly looking to the cloud to help them accelerate digital transformation, there is a growing need for tools and resources to help them make the transition.
GitLab Inc., the provider of The One DevOps Platform, recently announced the launch of Cloud Seed in partnership with Google Cloud. Cloud Seed is a new capability within GitLab that can help developers find, obtain, and use cloud services.
Cloud Seed offers a single platform that allows customers to migrate their entire tech stack — comprising applications and infrastructure alike — to the cloud. This will enable companies to undergo a cloud transformation, allowing them to scale at the speed of market demand.
According to GitLab, integrating Google Cloud services enables more companies and institutions — especially those reluctant or slow to adopt this new technology — to reap the benefits of hyperscalers' innovation-focused culture. At the same time, GitLab says this helps lower costs by accessing tools in tandem with existing deployment models.
“Our 2022 DevSecOps Survey found that DevOps and cloud adoption are two key priorities within the industry – and through our work with hyperscalers, like Google Cloud, we’ve noticed that the organizations we onboard to GitLab’s single platform also tend to shift to the cloud in tandem. This capability will enable organizations to accelerate their cloud adoption while still ensuring they can work within the One DevOps Platform,” said Ashley Kramer, acting chief technology officer at GitLab. “We’re thrilled that this launch aligns with the priorities of the market and allows our customers to innovate in exciting ways.”
Cloud Seed is built into the GitLab web UI and enables developers to streamline their use of Google Cloud services easily. Google Cloud and GitLab worked in an open-source model to make Cloud Seed available for paid and free users.
“GitLab is pleased to introduce Cloud Seed as part of our growing partnership with Google Cloud,” said Nima Badiey, vice president of alliances at GitLab. “Our longstanding relationship has delivered impactful solutions for customers embarking on application modernization and migration journeys onto Google Cloud, and Cloud Seed further demonstrates our commitment to the developer community as well as cloud users.”
GitLab claims that with Cloud Seed, users can create service accounts, configure regional settings for projects that require them, and launch a new instance with a single command once its dependencies have been installed, all without leaving the flow of development workflows.
"Developers need resources and tools to increase their productivity. We are excited to see GitLab launch Cloud Seed, which is designed with that goal in mind,” said Steren Giannini, group product manager at Google Cloud. “Cloud Seed provides a simple way for developers to deploy their web applications directly to Google Cloud from GitLab. The project aligns with Google Cloud's goal of making developers' lives easier.”
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