InfoQCraig Risi2 min readrelease notesintermediate
GitLab Duo Expands Self-Hosted AI Options Through Microsoft Foundry
Summary
GitLab Duo Self‑Hosted now integrates with Microsoft Foundry, allowing AI requests to flow through a self‑managed GitLab AI Gateway to Azure‑hosted OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, or Mistral models. This gives enterprises control over model choice, data residency, and credentials, while adding operational responsibility for model lifecycle and compatibility.
- GitLab Duo Self‑Hosted can use a self‑managed AI Gateway to route requests to models deployed on Microsoft Foundry (OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, Mistral).
- Per‑feature model selection lets teams pick different models for code suggestions, agentic workloads, or high‑volume tasks while keeping traffic inside their Azure environment.
- Engineering teams must now manage model deployment, capacity, networking, credentials, and compatibility between Foundry catalog and GitLab’s supported matrix.
- The integration decouples GitLab’s DevSecOps layer from any single foundation model, making it a model‑agnostic control plane.
Enterprises needing data sovereignty or custom AI model control should care because GitLab now lets them host models on Azure while preserving their DevSecOps workflow.
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