Compliance is the part of software delivery that everyone agrees is important, yet nobody enjoys. It
often lives in spreadsheets, screenshots, and the quiet dread of an upcoming audit. GitLab's custom
compliance frameworks work differently. Instead of documenting what should be true about your
projects, you define the controls once and let the platform continuously verify what is true.In this article, you'll learn why compliance adherence matters, how to stand up a SOC 2 framework in
minutes using a template, how to monitor adherence on an ongoing basis, how to enforce compliance
