Case Study: NVIDIA achieves global scalability, security, and near‑100% uptime with GitLab Geo (GitLab)

How GitLab Geo supports NVIDIA’s innovation

Nvidia, with more than 50 offices and thousands of developers, struggled to keep dispersed teams secure, synchronized, and productive while avoiding dozens of small, hard-to-manage servers. To address mirroring, time-to-clone, and access-control challenges, the company adopted GitLab (starting with Community Edition) and turned to GitLab Geo to support its global, decentralized engineering model.

GitLab implemented Geo with read-only mirrors, high-availability configurations, and support for Git LFS, enabling zero-downtime upgrades, easier scaling, and simpler disaster-recovery planning. As a result, GitLab helped Nvidia eliminate many local servers, dramatically reduce clone and management time, support a 51% user growth in one year, and deliver near‑100% uptime—demonstrating clear operational and productivity gains under GitLab.

Nvidia

Patrick Herlihy

Configuration Management Specialist