This was a great comment until the mean-spirited last word.
I’ve run production apps on Heroku in the past, best possible service for small teams. Gitlab? Given how expensive it is - I’m not so sure.
The article doesn’t do a great job of showing it, but the 5 minute production app makes it easier to setup stateful services on the hyper clouds.
And it does spin up a new environment for every merge request.
I dont think you should. Being the CEO of the company which published this blog, the last thing you should do is ignore a genuine review of what quality that blog post is.