DevSecFinOps: The Challenge of Implementing a Secure and Cost-Effective Container-Based CI/CD System By Eddie Northcutt and Lane Leake Introduction Running CI/CD at scale can feel like juggling on a unicycle; it’s all about balance. One misconfiguration and everything comes crashing down: timeouts, long build times, and unhappy engineers. At State Farm, we process millions of CI/CD jobs each month with a self-managed GitLab and GitLab CI/CD implementation.