GCP Secrets Integration - Weekly Project Plan

Milestone 16.7 (November 13, 2023 - December 8, 2023)

Milestone Goals

• Complete the OIDC configuration for getting secrets from GCP
• Begin work on runner authentication with GCP

Week of November 20, 2023 (Milestone 16.7)

Team Capacity

• 1 BE

Goals

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/428402 Create POC and proposed solution for the integration with GCP Secrets Manager using GCP Workload Identity Pool.

Week of November 27, 2023 (Milestone 16.7)

Team Capacity

• 1 BE

Goals

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/428402 Finalize the proposed solution. We would have a clear understanding of what changes are needed on Rails, what information would be sent by Rails to Runner in the job payload, how Runner would use this job payload to authenticate to GCP and access the secrets.

Week of December 4, 2023 (Milestone 16.7)

Team Capacity

• 1 BE

Goals

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/138151 Merge the architecture blueprint MR.
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/428400 Begin development on runner authentication with GCP

Week of December 11, 2023 (Milestone 16.7)

Team Capacity

• 1 BE

Goals

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/428400 Continue development for runner authentication with GCP
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/428401 Begin development for rails support

Milestone 16.8 (December 18, 2023 - January 12, 2024)

Milestone Goals

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/428400 Complete runner authentication with GCP
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/428401 Complete development for rails support