Case Study: Dunelm boosts secure cloud delivery with GitLab

Dunelm shifts left U.K. homewares leader moves security to front of cycle, boosts cloud move

Dunelm, the U.K. homewares retailer, wanted to speed up development and deployment while improving security across its growing cloud-first, serverless engineering environment. Facing gaps in its existing Jenkins-based CI/CD workflows, the company needed better automation, governance, visibility, and built-in security. GitLab Ultimate was chosen to help Dunelm “shift left” and support its DevSecOps approach.

With GitLab SaaS Ultimate, Dunelm streamlined pipeline creation and deployment on AWS, added automated SAST, DAST, secret detection, and dependency scanning earlier in the SDLC, and improved collaboration across developers, quality engineers, and SREs. GitLab also reduced onboarding time for new developers from days to hours and helped Dunelm release more quality software with less manual effort and better visibility into operations.

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Chintan Parmar

Principal Platform Engineer