With GitLab 18.11 came good news for teams running GitLab on Kubernetes: Gitaly on Kubernetes is now generally available. Teams hosting GitLab on Kubernetes previously faced the challenge of maintaining a hybrid setup — running most GitLab components in Kubernetes while keeping Gitaly on virtual machines. This hybrid architecture made day-to-day operations more complex for those teams. Those days are over; Gitaly on Kubernetes is now an officially supported deployment option.The road to KubernetesGitaly has some hard requirements that don’t translate naturally into a Kubernetes environment.