Hello, Community Advocate from GitLab here. I was reading through your comments and it's great to hear how you use GitLab for your setup. Thanks for sharing your story with the community and we'd love to hear more from you on how GitLab helps you.
We wanted to hear what features you like using the most and how do those features help you with setting up your project. However, you wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18384804 which answers a lot of the questions. Thanks!