Plan
active
GitLab Secrets Manager now GA in 19.5, built on OpenBao
- Platform/SRE — Plan: GitLab Secrets Manager is now GA in 19.5 Premium/Ultimate, built on OpenBao — evaluate whether it can replace a standalone Vault deployment for GitLab-centric orgs, since it reuses the existing GitLab permission model and eliminates the sync-drift problem between vault access and project membership.
- CI/CD — Plan: Now GA in GitLab 19.5 — schedule evaluation of Secrets Manager as a replacement for unscoped CI/CD variables; it scopes credentials to individual jobs and attaches pipeline and job IDs to every credential read, making this a concrete supply-chain hardening step for GitLab-hosted pipelines.
- Leader — Learn: For orgs standardized on GitLab, this GA release shifts the build-vs-buy calculus on maintaining a separate secrets vault; no urgent vendor or licensing decision, but worth tracking as a potential toolchain consolidation as the feature matures on Dedicated.
- Signals: GitLab 19.5 EOL 2027-01-21 · GA announcement
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