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Create blank gitlab-secret_detection gem

Serena Fang requested to merge blank-secret-detection-gem into master

What does this MR do and why?

This MR creates an empty Ruby gem called gitlab-secret_detection.

Resolves #426823 (closed)


Epic: Build a Ruby gem to perform secrets regex match... (&11612 - closed)

To perform keyword and regex matching on git blobs that may include secrets, we are creating a gem that will be included as a dependency in GitLab main codebase (gitlab-org/gitlab). This dependency will accept one or more git blobs, match them against a defined ruleset of regular expressions (based on gitleaks.toml used by secrets analyzer), and return scan results.

Related merge requests

Step Merge Request Description
1 This one. Create an empty gem
2 !136381 (merged) Implement the scanning logic
3 !136513 (closed) Connect the push check to the gem

The gitlab-secret_detection gem will be called by the secrets push check, which is implemented by another series of MRs.

Step Merge Request Description
1 !135032 (merged) Adds the secrets push check, and puts it behind a feature flag.
2 !135036 (merged) Updates the secrets push check to check for license (only ultimate is allowed).
3 !135164 (merged) Adds a new application setting for pre-receive SD, and updates the secrets push check accordingly.
4 !135273 (merged) Adds the UI for toggling the application setting of pre-receive SD

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Edited by Serena Fang

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