GitLab enhances DevSecOps with new AI-powered features as part of its latest releases.
The recent release of GitLab November 16.6 includes the beta version of GitLab Duo Chat, a natural language AI assistant. In addition, the December 16.7 GitLab release sees the general availability of GitLab Duo code suggestions.
David DeSanto, Chief Product Officer at GitLab, said: “To realize the full potential of AI, it must be integrated into the software development lifecycle, allowing DevSecOps teams to benefit from boosts to security, efficiency and collaboration” .
GitLab Duo Chat – arguably the star of the show – provides users with invaluable information, guidance and suggestions. Beyond code analysis, it supports planning, understanding and resolving security issues, troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines, helping with merge requests, and more.
As part of GitLab’s commitment to providing an end-to-end AI experience, Duo Chat joins Code Suggestions as the primary interface to GitLab’s AI suite on its DevSecOps platform.
GitLab Duo includes a suite of 14 AI features:
- Recommended reviewers
- Code suggestions
- Chat
- Vulnerability Summary
- Code Explanation
- Summary of Planning Discussions
- Merge Request Summary
- Populate a merge request template
- Code Review Summary
- Test Generation
- Git suggestions
- Root cause analysis
- Design Description Generation
- Value stream forecasting
In response to the evolving needs of development, security, and operations teams, Code Recommendations are now generally available. This feature helps build and patch, reduce cognitive load, improve efficiency, and accelerate secure software development.
GitLab’s commitment to privacy and transparency stands out in the AI space. According to GitLab’s report, 83 percent of DevSecOps professionals consider it necessary to implement artificial intelligence in their processes, with 95 percent prioritizing privacy and intellectual property protection when choosing AI tools.
The State of Artificial Intelligence in Software Development GitLab’s report reveals that developers spend just 25 percent of their time writing code. The Duo Suite aims to address this by reducing toolchain sprawl—enabling 7x faster cycle times, increased developer productivity, and reduced software costs.
Kate Holterhoff, Industry Analyst at Redmonkcommented: “The developers we talk to at RedMonk are passionate about the productivity and efficiency gains that code assistants promise.
“GitLab’s Duo Code Suggestions is a welcome player in this space, expanding the options available to enable an AI-enhanced software development lifecycle.”
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