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stage: Configure
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group: Configure
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info: To determine the technical writer assigned to the Stage/Group associated with this page, see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/ux/technical-writing/#assignments
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# Infrastructure management **(FREE)**
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With the rise of DevOps and SRE approaches, infrastructure management becomes codified,
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automatable, and software development best practices gain their place around infrastructure
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management too. On one hand, the daily tasks of classical operations people changed
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and are more similar to traditional software development. On the other hand, software engineers
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are more likely to control their whole DevOps lifecycle, including deployments and delivery.
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GitLab offers various features to speed up and simplify your infrastructure management practices.
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## Infrastructure as Code
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GitLab has deep integrations with Terraform to run Infrastructure as Code pipelines
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and support various processes. Terraform is considered the standard in cloud infrastructure provisioning.
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The various GitLab integrations help you:
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- Get started quickly without any setup.
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- Collaborate around infrastructure changes in merge requests the same as you might
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with code changes.
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- Scale using a module registry.
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Learn more about how GitLab can help you run [Infrastructure as Code](iac/index.md).
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## Integrated Kubernetes management
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GitLab has special integrations with Kubernetes to help you deploy, manage and troubleshoot
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third-party or custom applications in Kubernetes clusters. Auto DevOps provides a full
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DevSecOps pipeline by default targeted at Kubernetes based deployments. To support
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all the GitLab features, GitLab offers a cluster management project for easy onboarding.
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The deploy boards provide quick insights into your cluster, including pod logs tailing.
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Learn more about the [GitLab integration with Kubernetes](clusters/index.md).
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## Runbooks in GitLab
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Runbooks are a collection of documented procedures that explain how to carry out a task,
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such as starting, stopping, debugging, or troubleshooting a system.
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Read more about [how executable runbooks work in GitLab](../project/clusters/runbooks/index.md).
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