enclaive Confidential Application Hosting for GitLab is a secure hosting solution designed to deploy GitLab within a confidential computing environment, ensuring that cloud providers cannot access the contents of hosted applications. The solution addresses key challenges in secure application deployment: - Data sovereignty: Applications are protected through encryption at rest, in transit, and in use via default vault protection, preventing unauthorized access including by the cloud provider itself. - Zero-trust enforcement: The environment is architected so that no implicit trust is granted to any party, including infrastructure operators. - Rapid deployment: Users can configure and manage their GitLab application within minutes through a user-friendly interface, without requiring deep technical expertise. - Scalability: The application cluster can be dynamically resized based on changing workload requirements, supporting business growth while maintaining the confidential execution environment. The product is built around confidential computing principles, placing GitLab inside a high-security execution environment (secure vault) that uses hardware-level encryption to minimize performance overhead while maximizing data protection. It is offered as a managed hosting service targeting organizations with strict data governance, regulatory compliance, or sovereignty requirements.