GitLab: How to Work with a Team and Implement CI/CD
Workshop, Open IT, Kharkiv IT Cluster, 2026
At this Open IT workshop, I spoke as Head of Engineering at an NDA company about GitLab workflows and CI/CD processes for team development. The online session took place on February 11, 2026, as part of Kharkiv IT Cluster’s Open IT program.
What the talk covers
- Why teams need Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery
- How to structure
.gitlab-ci.yml, stages, and jobs - How pipelines can check each change before code reaches the main branch
- How to manage secrets and access in a CI/CD environment
- How CI/CD affects delivery speed and code quality across a team