| .org | [dev.gitlab.org](https://dev.gitlab.org) | Tools for GitLab.com | Nightly | Real Work | Production and build team |
Currently there are two main uses for the .org environment:
- Builds.
- Repos that are needed in case GitLab.com is offline.
The main uses for the `.org` environment:
- Building official artifacts
- Providing build isolation for SOX compliance (located on different instance and infrastructure)
- Certifying SBOM and provenance
- Controlling publishing of releases
- Controlling synchronization with Canonical after publishing
- Ensuring the ability to release GitLab for Self-Managed customers in case of a total outage of GitLab.com
This is a critical piece of infrastructure that is always growing in size due to build artifacts. There are discussions to make a new build server where nightly CE/EE builds can be deployed or to move the infra repos to a new host that would be a separate (not gitlab.com) EE instance. Although the environment has dev in its domain name, don't refer to it as dev, since that could be confused with a local development environment.
