ControlMonkey Cyber Resilience Platform now supports GitLab Backup and Recovery, helping DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, and Security teams protect and recover the GitLab configuration that keeps software delivery running.
Recent incidents across developer platforms show that DevOps configuration is now its own resilience risk category. The Grafana GitHub token breach and CISA warnings about malicious GitHub Actions workflows show how attackers can target the systems that control software delivery – from repositories and workflow configuration to credentials, permissions, access policies, and CI/CD pipelines.
While these examples involved GitHub, the same risk category applies to GitLab. GitLab also depends on a configuration layer that controls projects, groups, users, roles, permissions, CI/CD settings, and access policies. If that layer is deleted, changed, exposed, or misused, teams need a reliable way to recover a known-good state.
These examples involved GitHub, but the same category of risk exists in GitLab. GitLab also acts as an operational control plane for engineering teams, with projects, groups, users, roles, permissions, CI/CD settings, and access policies shaping how software is built and deployed. If that configuration layer is deleted, changed, exposed, or misused, teams need a reliable way to recover a known-good state.
Introducing GitLab Backup and Recovery
ControlMonkey GitLab Backup and Recovery helps DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, and Security teams protect the configuration layer behind GitLab operations.
With this new capability, teams can:
- Continuously back up GitLab configuration
Capture branch protection rules, member roles, projects, and environment configurations as versioned recovery points. - Recover known-good configuration
Restore GitLab configuration after accidental deletion, misconfiguration, unauthorized change, ransomware impact, or failed automation. - Improve disaster recovery readiness
Understand which GitLab configurations are protected, where recovery gaps exist, and what still needs coverage. - Reduce manual recovery effort
Give teams a repeatable recovery path instead of relying on tribal knowledge, screenshots, or manual reconstruction during an incident. - Strengthen governance and auditability
Track what changed, when it changed, and which configuration state can be recovered.
GitLab Operational Resilience Depends on More Than Repository Content.
Traditional backup protects code and data. But GitLab operational resilience depends on more than repository content.
Repositories, groups, permissions, CI/CD settings, access policies, and operational configurations all shape how software moves through the organization. If those settings are changed by mistake, deleted, damaged by ransomware, or modified by an over-permissive AI agent, teams need a fast and controlled way to recover.
ControlMonkey GitLab Backup and Recovery continuously captures GitLab configuration snapshots, tracks changes over time, and helps teams restore known-good configurations when something breaks.
ControlMonkey Approach
The new capability extends ControlMonkey’s broader Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery approach:
- Discover what exists
- Create versioned recovery points
- Give teams a controlled path to restore the operational state of critical cloud and SaaS environments.
GitLab is not only where code lives. For many organizations, it is part of the operational backbone of software delivery.If GitLab configuration is lost or changed unexpectedly, hundreds of engineers could be blocked from working… Teams needs a way to restore the configurations required to keep engineering moving.
GitLab Backup and Recovery joins ControlMonkey’s growing coverage for cloud infrastructure and third-party configuration, including identity, networking, observability, DevOps tools, and SaaS platforms.
ControlMonkey is a Cyber Resilience Platform for Cloud Configuration Disaster Recovery. Traditional backup restores data. ControlMonkey restores the configuration required to operate.
Ready to protect your GitLab configuration? Explore GitLab Backup and Recovery today.
