Case Study: Leading U.S. financial institution achieves secure, scalable CI and $250K/quarter savings with GitLab

GitLab replaces Jenkins and multiple Git-based tools to achieve open source stability and security for prominent financial organization

Financial Institution, a long-established North American financial services leader, needed to move to the cloud and embrace open source while reducing complexity and cost. Facing dozens of Jenkins instances, fragmented CI tools, manual integrations, and duplicated licensing fees, the organization turned to GitLab and its GitLab CI (Premium) offering to consolidate tooling and improve security and collaboration.

GitLab replaced Jenkins and multiple CI tools with unified pipelines, built-in templates, and Docker support, enabling teams to deploy to production, view code at every step, and automate previously manual work. The shift improved cycle time and scalability, increased transparency across teams, and kept critical client data secure—supporting some 20,000 running repositories and delivering roughly $250,000 in cost savings per quarter for the Financial Institution.

Financial Institution

Michael

Software Engineer