Compliance features for administrators
- Tier: Free, Premium, Ultimate
- Offering: GitLab Self-Managed
GitLab compliance features for administrators ensure your GitLab instance meets common compliance standards. Many of the features are also available for groups and projects.
Compliant workflow automation
It is important for compliance teams to be confident that their controls and requirements are set up correctly, but also that they stay set up correctly. One way of doing this is manually checking settings periodically, but this is error prone and time consuming. A better approach is to use single-source-of-truth settings and automation to ensure that whatever a compliance team has configured, stays configured and working correctly. These features can help you automate compliance:
| Feature | Instances | Groups | Projects | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Merge request approval policy approval settings | Yes | Yes | Yes | Enforce a merge request approval policy enforcing multiple approvers and override various project settings in all enforced groups or projects across your GitLab instance or group. |
Audit management
An important part of any compliance program is being able to go back and understand what happened, when it happened, and who was responsible. You can use this in audit situations as well as for understanding the root cause of issues when they occur.
It is helpful to have both low-level, raw lists of audit data as well as high-level, summary lists of audit data. Between these two, compliance teams can quickly identify if problems exist and then drill down into the specifics of those issues. These features can help provide visibility into GitLab and audit what is happening:
| Feature | Instances | Groups | Projects | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Audit events | Yes | Yes | Yes | To maintain the integrity of your code, audit events give administrators the ability to view any modifications made in the GitLab server in an advanced audit events system, so you can control, analyze, and track every change. |
| Audit reports | Yes | Yes | Yes | Create and access reports based on the audit events that have occurred. Use pre-built GitLab reports or the API to build your own. |
| Audit event streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes | Stream GitLab audit events to an HTTP endpoint or third party service, such as AWS S3 or GCP Logging. |
| Auditor users | Yes | No | No | Auditor users are users who are given read-only access to all projects, groups, and other resources on the GitLab instance. |
Policy management
Organizations have unique policy requirements, either due to organizational standards or mandates from regulatory bodies. The following features help you define rules and policies to adhere to workflow requirements, separation of duties, and secure supply chain best practices:
| Feature | Instances | Groups | Projects | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Credentials inventory | Yes | No | No | Keep track of the credentials used by all of the users in a GitLab instance. |
| Granular user roles and flexible permissions | Yes | Yes | Yes | Manage access and permissions with five different user roles and settings for external users. Set permissions according to people’s role, rather than either read or write access to a repository. Don’t share the source code with people that only need access to the issue tracker. |
| Merge request approvals | Yes | Yes | Yes | Configure approvals required for merge requests. |
| Push rules | Yes | Yes | Yes | Control pushes to your repositories. |
| Security policies | Yes | Yes | Yes | Configure customizable policies that require merge request approval based on policy rules, or enforce security scanners to execute in project pipelines for compliance requirements. Policies can be enforced granularly against specific projects, or all projects in a group or subgroup. |
Other compliance features
These features can also help with compliance requirements:
| Feature | Instances | Groups | Projects | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Email all users of a project, group, or entire server | Yes | No | No | Email groups of users based on project or group membership, or email everyone using the GitLab instance. These emails are great for scheduled maintenance or upgrades. |
| Enforce ToS acceptance | Yes | No | No | Enforce your users accepting new terms of service by blocking GitLab traffic. |
| Generate reports on permission levels of users | Yes | No | No | Generate a report listing all users’ access permissions for groups and projects in the instance. |
| LDAP group sync | Yes | No | No | Automatically synchronize groups and manage SSH keys, permissions, and authentication, so you can focus on building your product, not configuring your tools. |
| LDAP group sync filters | Yes | No | No | Gives more flexibility to synchronize with LDAP based on filters, meaning you can leverage LDAP attributes to map GitLab permissions. |
| Linux package installations support log forwarding | Yes | No | No | Forward your logs to a central system. |
| Restrict SSH Keys | Yes | No | No | Control the technology and key length of SSH keys used to access GitLab. |