 a founding member of GitLab Incubation. GitLab is the one DevOps platform, a single application for the entire DevOps lifecycle, helping you build better products faster, increasing operational efficiencies, and reducing security and compliance risks. At GitLab Incubation, I lead a program called Cloudseed. Cloudseed is an open source collaboration with Google Cloud to accelerate cloud adoption and app modernization, while offering a ridiculously simple developer and DevOps experience. Over the past 10 months, we worked closely with the Google Auth team, the Cloud Run team, and the Cloud SQL team. And now, we're excited to release and share with you the fruits of our labor. This collaboration brings tangible value to developers, DevOps, SREs, and senior business leaders. I'm super excited to share this with you at Google Cloud Next 22. Let's get started. Whether you're a developer at a large multinational enterprise or you're part of a small startup, Cloudseed makes your experience delightful. Your project in GitLab can be configured to auto-deploy to Google Cloud in a matter of minutes. Taking care of all the cloud operations, infra-provisioning, configuration, and automation. In your GitLab project, you navigate to the infrastructure section. And now, you'll find a new option for Google Cloud. Here, you can set up your deployment credentials, that is, your service accounts, by following the standard Google OAuth 2 flow. Once authorized, you can associate this GitLab project and environment to a vertical or GCP project. Next, you generate an application deployment pipeline. Navigate to the Deployments tab. Select Cloud Run as your deployment target and configure the merge request. This merge request introduces a pipeline that will execute automatically each time there is a Git push event. This means every time any developer modifies code, a new deployment is triggered. It's not only the long-standing branches and environments that are deployed, but temporary feature branches are deployed as well. Giving you the ability to quickly and cheaply spin up short-lived review environments for internal usage. Using a similar mechanism, if your project requires a relational database, you may provision Cloud SQL database instances linked to each project's environments or branches. Just navigate to the Databases tab and select Create Instance option for either Postgres, MySQL, or SQL Server. This will provision a Cloud SQL instance in your chosen GCP project and associate it with one or more branches or environments in your GitLab project. That's it. A self-service one-time setup mechanism. Once this has been set up, it can be used by all team members for all feature branches and environments. And with all the provisioning, configuring, and automation taken care of, developers can get on with their true purpose, that is to write code and build amazing products. We witnessed the self-service nature of the developer experience when it comes to deploying apps or provisioning databases. This self-service procedure simplifies day-to-day lives of DevOps and infrastructure engineers and increases team workflow efficiencies. Yet, authorizations and entitlement management are not forgotten. From the GitLab web UI, the user may provision only those Cloud resources and services to which their Cloud account is entitled. That means Google Cloud remains the single source of truth for all authorizations and entitlements. An additional defensive layer is activated by ensuring that only GitLab project maintainers and project owners are allowed to provision and set up Cloud resources via the GitLab web UI. Given GitLab's built-in secure capabilities and the self-service nature of Cloud seed, organizations are enabled to increase operational efficiencies while reducing security and compliance risks. Cloud seed succeeds in offering developers a seamless interface to provision and deploy without spending hours on configuration and infrastructure management. And this enables you to develop better products faster. DevOps and SREs are empowered to create operational efficiencies by allowing self-service of Cloud resources with the best practices baked in while security and compliance risks are reduced by ensuring that Google Cloud remains the single source of truth for authorizations and entitlements. With Cloud seed, GitLab's capabilities are complemented. We unify the software development lifecycle with Cloud resource management and Cloud operation processes all within the one DevOps platform, GitLab. Containerized web application deployments and provisioning of popular relational databases addresses a vast majority of the Cloud adoption and app modernization use cases. And this holds true across several technical domains, including back-end and API development, microservice architectures, front-end, Jamstack and mobile development, data analytics and reporting, machine learning and so many more. At the same time, this remains extremely relevant for SMEs, smaller teams and startups who are optimizing for positive business outcomes and reduction of cycle time. Regardless of your business size, Cloud seed is an effort by GitLab in open source partnership with Google Cloud to bolster your business operations by accelerating Cloud adoption, boosting app modernization and helping your teams achieve their true potential with increased focus, efficiency and productivity. And in true open source fashion, Cloud seed invites you to collaborate. Follow us on Twitter at opencloudseed and join our Discord channel, link below in the description and fashion the future of Cloud operations together with GitLab, Google Cloud and other industry leaders. Thank you for listening and I invite you to try out Cloud seed today on gitlab.com.