Private connection to Gitlab without self-hosting

Proposal

Hi team,

We run our clusters in AKS due to client needs and would like to inquire about a possibility of Gitlab offering a private endpoint to Gitlab via other cloud providers' marketplaces? Ideally, we would like avoid having traffic (both git and container/image/package registrties) from our clusters and our on-prem and end-user devices from being routed over the public internet in favor of a dedicated network peering or VPN connection between Gitlab and the cloud providers where users might be hosted.

This would allow those teams who can't or don't want to maintain their own self-hosted Gitlab instance to have comparable security assurances to a self-hosted install, and Gitlab would be able to bring in additional revenue from smaller enterprises who might have capital and would surely want to make use of this.

I would propose that this be only for GitLab Ultimate accounts and that perhaps there should even be a higher tier created due to the cost of offering and ongoing maintenance of the additional infrastructure that your teams would need to support.

Happy to expand upon this and answer any questions anyone has.