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# Secure Partner Integration - Onboarding Process
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If you want to integrate your product with the [Secure Stage](https://about.gitlab.com/direction/secure/),
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this page will help you understand the developer workflow GitLab intends for
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our users to follow with regards to security results. These should be used as
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guidelines so you can build an integration that fits with the workflow GitLab
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users are already familiar with.
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This page also provides resources for the technical work associated
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with [onboarding as a partner](https://about.gitlab.com/partners/integrate/).
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The steps below are a high-level view of what needs to be done to complete an
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integration as well as linking to more detailed resources for how to do so.
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## Integration Tiers
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GitLab's security offerings are designed for GitLab Gold and GitLab Ultimate users, and the
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[DevSecOps](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/use-cases/#4-devsecops-shift-left-security)
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use case. All the features are in those tiers. This includes the APIs and standard reporting
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framework needed to provide a consistent experience for users to easily bring their preferred
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security tools into GitLab. We ask that our integration partners focus their work on those license
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tiers so that we can provide the most value to our mutual customers.
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## What is the GitLab Developer Workflow?
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This workflow is how GitLab users interact with our product and expect it to
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function. Understanding how users use GitLab today will help you choose the
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best place to integrate your own product and its results into GitLab.
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- Developers want to write code without using a new tool to consume results
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or address feedback about the item they are working on. Staying inside a
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single tool, GitLab, helps them to stay focused on finishing the code and
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projects they are working on.
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- Developers commit code to a Git branch. The developer creates a merge request (MR)
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inside GitLab where these changes can be reviewed. The MR triggers a GitLab
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pipeline to run associated jobs, including security checks, on the code.
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- Pipeline jobs serve a variety of purposes. Jobs can do scanning for and have
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implications for app security, corporate policy, or compliance. When complete,
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the job reports back on its status and creates a
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[job artifact](../../user/project/pipelines/job_artifacts.md) as a result.
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- The [Merge Request Security Widget](../../user/project/merge_requests/testing_and_reports_in_merge_requests.md#security-reports)
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displays the results of the pipeline's security checks and the developer can
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review them. The developer can review both a summary and a detailed version
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of the results.
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- If certain policies (such as [merge request approvals](../../user/project/merge_requests/merge_request_approvals.md))
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are in place for a project, developers must resolve specific findings or get
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an approval from a specific list of people.
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- The [security dashboard](../../user/application_security/security_dashboard/index.md#gitlab-security-dashboard)
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also shows results which can developers can use to quickly see all the
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vulnerabilities that need to be addressed in the code.
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- When the developer reads the details about a vulnerability, they are
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presented with additional information and choices on next steps:
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1. Create Issue (Confirm finding): Creates a new issue to be prioritized.
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1. Add Comment and Dismiss Vulnerability: When dismissing a finding, users
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can comment to note items that they
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have mitigated, that they accept the vulnerability, or that the
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vulnerability is a false positive.
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1. Auto-Remediation / Create Merge Request: A fix for the vulnerability can
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be offered, allowing an easy solution that does not require extra effort
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from users. This should be offered whenever possible.
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1. Links: Vulnerabilities can link out external sites or sources for users
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to get more data around the vulnerability.
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## How to onboard
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This section describes the steps you need to complete to onboard as a partner
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and complete an integration with the Secure stage.
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1. Read about our [partnerships](https://about.gitlab.com/partners/integrate/).
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1. [Create an issue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/alliances/alliances/-/issues/new?issuable_template=new_partner)
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using our new partner issue template to begin the discussion.
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1. Get a test account to begin developing your integration. You can
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request a [GitLab.com Gold Subscription Sandbox](https://about.gitlab.com/partners/integrate/#gitlabcom-gold-subscription-sandbox-request)
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or an [EE Developer License](https://about.gitlab.com/partners/integrate/#requesting-ee-dev-license-for-rd).
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1. Provide a [pipeline job](../../development/pipelines.md)
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template that users could integrate into their own GitLab pipelines.
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1. Create a report artifact with your pipeline jobs.
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1. Ensure your pipeline jobs create a report artifact that GitLab can process
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to successfully display your own product's results with the rest of GitLab.
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- See detailed [technical directions](secure.md) for this step.
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- Read more about [job report artifacts](../../ci/pipelines/job_artifacts.md#artifactsreports).
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- Read about [job artifacts](../../user/project/pipelines/job_artifacts.md).
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- Your report artifact must be in one of our currently supported formats.
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For more information, see the [documentation on reports](secure.md#report).
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- Documentation for [SAST reports](../../user/application_security/sast/index.md#reports-json-format).
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- Documentation for [Dependency Scanning reports](../../user/application_security/dependency_scanning/index.md#reports-json-format).
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- Documentation for [Container Scanning reports](../../user/application_security/container_scanning/index.md#reports-json-format).
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- See this [example secure job definition that also defines the artifact created](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/blob/master/lib/gitlab/ci/templates/Security/Container-Scanning.gitlab-ci.yml).
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- If you need a new kind of scan or report, [create an issue](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/new#)
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and add the label `devops::secure`.
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- Once the job is completed, the data can be seen:
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- In the [Merge Request Security Report](../../user/project/merge_requests/testing_and_reports_in_merge_requests.md#security-reports) ([MR Security Report data flow](https://gitlab.com/snippets/1910005#merge-request-view)).
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- While [browsing a Job Artifact](../../user/project/pipelines/job_artifacts.md).
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- In the [Security Dashboard](../../user/application_security/security_dashboard/index.md) ([Dashboard data flow](https://gitlab.com/snippets/1910005#project-and-group-dashboards)).
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1. Optional: Provide a way to interact with results as Vulnerabilities:
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- Users can interact with the findings from your artifact within their workflow. They can dismiss the findings or accept them and create a backlog issue.
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- To automatically create issues without user interaction, use the [issue API](../../api/issues.md). This will be replaced by [Standalone Vulnerabilities](https://gitlab.com/groups/gitlab-org/-/epics/634) in the future.
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1. Optional: Provide auto-remediation steps:
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- If you specified `remediations` in your artifact, it is proposed through our [auto-remediation](../../user/application_security/index.md#solutions-for-vulnerabilities-auto-remediation)
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interface.
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1. Demo the integration to GitLab:
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- After you have tested and are ready to demo your integration please
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[reach out](https://about.gitlab.com/partners/integrate/) to us. If you
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skip this step you won’t be able to do supported marketing.
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1. Begin doing supported marketing of your GitLab integration.
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- Work with our [partner team](https://about.gitlab.com/partners/integrate/)
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to support your go-to-market as appropriate.
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- Examples of supported marketing could include being listed on our [Security Partner page](https://about.gitlab.com/partners/#security),
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doing an [Unfiltered blog post](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/marketing/blog/unfiltered/),
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doing a co-branded webinar, or producing a co-branded whitepaper.
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We have a [video playlist](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05JrBw4t0KpMqYxJiOLz-uBIr5w-yP4A)
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that may be helpful as part of this process. This covers various topics related to integrating your
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tool.
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If you have any issues while working through your integration or the steps
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above, please create an issue to discuss with us further.
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