But is it much different than the usual CI or infrastructure house of cards/YAML files? Every company has their own way of doing cloud-based infra, CI build pi

But is it much different than the usual CI or infrastructure house of cards/YAML files? Every company has their own way of doing cloud-based infra, CI build pipelines (in their favorite CI provider's dialect, since those aren't portable either), etc. Every time I start at a new place I have to reverse-engineer what the previous guys did; there is no standard. By that benchmark, one extra thing to document/keep in mind isn't that big of a deal, especially considering GitLab (installed using their standard "omnibus" install on one of their supported distros) is likely to be more standard than all those custom Terraform/CI pipelines/etc.