Case Study: Duncan Aviation streamlines secure software deployments with GitLab Ultimate

GitLab ensures confident automation and compliance, secures deployments at Duncan Aviation

Duncan Aviation, a leading aviation services company, needed a more reliable way to deploy software while meeting evolving security and compliance requirements such as CMMC. The team’s in-house deployment tools were not scaling well, and manual builds, testing, and deployments were slow, error-prone, and difficult to document. Duncan Aviation chose GitLab Ultimate, using GitLab’s SaaS offering as an end-to-end DevOps platform.

With GitLab, Duncan Aviation automated pipelines, testing, scanning, and other manual processes, while improving visibility into deployments, vulnerabilities, and compliance status. GitLab helped cut production deployment time from 45 minutes to 5 minutes and reduced project visibility tasks from 20 minutes to 1 minute, while saving about 1,339 administrative hours annually. The company also gained stronger confidence in code quality and security, with GitLab helping them identify issues earlier and deploy changes faster and more consistently.

Duncan Aviation

Ben Ferguson

Senior Programmer