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Remove `PaaS` category and add `Infrastructure as Code` for Configure stage

Daniel Gruesso requested to merge paas-rename-infra-management into master

Remove the "PaaS" category and add a new Infrastructure as Code category for the configure stage. Relevant discussion here https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/63151.

Summary for Removing PaaS

Product initially had intent to rename the PaaS category to either Application Development Platform or DevOps Platform, in order to better align to its intent. In conversation between product and marketing (meeting notes), marketing expressed intent to use the verbiage "platform" to describe GitLab (ie. GitLab = DevOps platform delivered as a single application).

Because the PaaS term incorrectly led some users to believe we were going to provide compute services and some of the features planned for it aligned better with other categories (such as Kubernetes and Auto DevOps) it will be better to re-distribute those features into existing categories and eliminate the PaaS category. In conclusion, marketing will work to build on the "DevOps platform" messaging at a top level, PMM will publish "PaaS-like" use-cases, and product will remote PaaS category and add a new Infrastructure as Code category.

Summary for Adding Infrastructure as Code

After discussion with @sytses at investor meetings, we'd like to propose the replacement of PaaS with Infrastructure Management (later renamed directly to Infrastructure as Code) to cover IaC and integration with Terraform.

/cc @twbarr @markpundsack @sfwgitlab @williamchia

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Edited by Daniel Gruesso

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