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PhilipsPhilips Adopts GitLab for Environment Provisioning
Philips, a health care organization in the Netherlands, uses GitLab Issues from GitLab to support environment provisioning for platform engineers.
Value results
| Category | Value result |
|---|---|
| Productivity | Handoffs in environment provisioning sit in a shared queue instead of a mailbox trail |
| Risk and compliance | GitLab Issues is the governed place platform engineers use for environment provisioning |
| Capability | New joiners can see how environment provisioning actually runs |
Story
Philips did not need another dashboard that nobody opened. It needed environment provisioning to move. In the Netherlands, platform engineers already knew where infrastructure as code went wrong: too many copies, too little ownership, and a close process that waited on the loudest inbox.
GitLab Issues from GitLab is now in that path. GitLab is a DevSecOps platform that combines source control, CI/CD, security scanning, and planning in one application. The company treats it as production tooling for environment provisioning, which is why platform engineers live in it rather than exporting from it once a quarter.
Philips can show how infrastructure as code is handled today. That is the value: a repeatable way to run environment provisioning on software the rest of the industry already recognizes.
