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Fantastic, Gitlab are absolutely nailing it at the moment. Don't think there's any other hosted service offering so many CI/CD features for free under one roof.

It feels like what Github did for SCM, Gitlab are doing for CI.

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Thanks Luke! We'll try to keep this going. We're working on deployment environments for our next release so you can see what is deployed in each environment. After that we can do deployments that need to be confirm manually.

Wow, that's great news. Exactly what we are looking for. I was investigating to use GitLab CI to build, and then only deploy commits with a certain tag, but a dedicated workflow for deployments is much more convenient and less error-prone.

Glad to hear that. By the way, the 'only deploy tags' strategy is already possible today if you want to do it that way.

I agree, this is awesome. Their post yesterday hinted at something, and I honestly didn't think it would be this exciting. I can't wait to use it.

Thanks, glad you like it. BTW I wonder how many people understood our hint yesterday: "We almost can't _contain_ our excitement about how our announcement on Monday will _register_ with you!".

Heh, I didn't read the hint until after the registry announcement, but saw what you did and appreciated it with the benefit of hindsight!

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