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# Deployment safety
# Deployment safety **(FREE)**
Deployment jobs can be more sensitive than other jobs in a pipeline,
and might need to be treated with extra care. GitLab has several features
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# Review Apps
# Review Apps **(FREE)**
> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/21971) in GitLab 8.12. Further additions were made in GitLab 8.13 and 8.14.
> - Inspired by [Heroku's Review Apps](https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/github-integration-review-apps), which itself was inspired by [Fourchette](https://github.com/rainforestapp/fourchette).
Review Apps is a collaboration tool that takes the hard work out of providing an environment to showcase product changes.
Review Apps is a collaboration tool that assists with providing an environment to showcase product changes.
NOTE:
If you have a Kubernetes cluster, you can automate this feature in your applications
by using [Auto DevOps](../../topics/autodevops/index.md).
## Introduction
Review Apps:
- Provide an automatic live preview of changes made in a feature branch by spinning up a dynamic environment for your merge requests.