Case Study: Keytrade Bank achieves centralized tooling, improved CI/CD and collaboration with GitLab

Keytrade Bank adopted GitLab for code management, version control, and CI/CD, replacing four tools and improving workflow efficiency

Keytrade Bank, the Belgian online banking and trading leader (part of Crédit Mutuel Arkéa Group), was struggling with a fragmented toolchain—Bitbucket, SVN, Jenkins, OpenShift and numerous internal scripts—that caused context switching, manual processes, poor visibility and limited auditability across Dev and Ops. To unify workflows and improve customer communication, Keytrade Bank adopted GitLab Premium.

GitLab delivered a single platform for version control, CI/CD, integrated registries and cloud integration (deployed on AWS via Omnibus with GitLab runners, EKS, Lambda and Terraform), plus Jira integration to link development to business workflows. As a result GitLab replaced four tools, runs about 1,000 jobs daily, supports ~500 projects since adoption, improved cross‑company collaboration and auditing, reduced finger‑pointing between Dev and Ops, and streamlined deployments and customer-facing delivery.

Keytrade Bank

Nicolas Pepinster

DevOps and Cloud Engineer