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Likelihood to Recommend
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Kubernetes service works well, installs easily, is robust and is constantly updated. It uses a great environment when you're running a bunch of servers handling user traffic. The monitoring is quite nice too. Except for the monitoring tools for the database. Azure Kubernetes service still doesn't support autoscaling of nodes. It takes time to fully set up. But once you get going it’s fine.
Software Engineer
JDA SoftwareComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
GitLab
Gitlab is a great opportunity to "practice what you preach" if you are a shop that advocates the use of open source tools. Whether you use [Gitlab] or your own internal deployment, this tool offers good value for money (typically free in both cases for most organizations' needs). It would be less appropriate when an organization:
- Doesn't want to host their own revision control, for less hands-on DevOps
- Needs their code to be private/proprietary, and
- Already has existing products and workflows for Continuous Integration and project management
Software Engineer
Digital Impact AllianceInternational Affairs, 11-50 employees
Pros
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- To scale the microservices very easily.
- Easy to set up in CI/CD pipeline.
- It has a good pricing option as well in Azure. Basic works fine.
- Accelerates containerized application development for the developers.
Software Engineer
JDA SoftwareComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
GitLab
- Pipelines: Gitlab Pipelines is an excellent way to get started with pipelines easily and without much overhead. And with it being all encapsulated within Gitlab itself, it makes integrating your code into that pipeline even easier. Just a little bit of code and VOILA. You have at least a minimum viable pipeline.
- VCS: Gitlab is, of course, a great version control system.
- Usability: Gitlab has really put a significant amount of focus into usability. They've drilled down and ensured that the way companies and individuals need to use the tool, they can.
- Groups: Gitlab makes setting permissions on projects extremely easy. Other version control systems make it more difficult to set things granular enough, but gitlab allows you to group things in a granular enough way for your projects.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Services Company, 501-1000 employeesCons
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Database services monitoring is weak.
- It doesn't possess a good monitoring solution.
- Response times in cloud applications could be faster.
Software Engineer
JDA SoftwareComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
GitLab
- Third-party integrations. Many developer tools integrate deeply with GitHub, but lack support for Gitlab. Gitlab does have webhook support so it's possible to build your own integrations, but this can be time-consuming.
- Gitlab's main competitor (GitHub) has a massive social network of coders and hosts nearly all popular open source projects. If you are looking for this type of community, Gitlab may not be for you.
- Customer support & reliability. In the time I've used Gitlab, it's not uncommon to experience hours-long periods of downtime without any announcement or indication from the support team when it will be available again.
Founder
finbox.ioInternet, 1-10 employees
Likelihood to Renew
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
No score
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GitLab
GitLab 10.0
Based on 2 answers
Gitlab is the best in its segment. They have a free version, they have open-source software, they provide a good service with their SaaS product, they are a fully-remote company since the beginning (which means they are fully distributed and have forward-thinking IMO). I would certainly recommend them to everyone.
Backend Engineer
DoistInternet, 1001-5000 employees
Usability
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
No score
No answers yet
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GitLab
GitLab 8.8
Based on 4 answers
The web console management is superior and I would have given Gitlab a 10, but sometimes it is hard to find documentation about a configuration setting in the gitlab.rb configuration file. As we move everything to code that means moving our CVS tools to code as well - and Gitlab to code. The usability of Gitlab from the end user's perspective is superior and the usability from the operations team is very good and getting better but there could be a little improvement in the gitlab.rb config file layout and documentation.
Managing Member
ZenPan Technology Solutions, LLCInformation Technology and Services, 1-10 employees
Support Rating
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) 9.0
Based on 1 answer
Microsoft support was really good, whenever we raise any ticket they come back to us within a couple of hours.
Software Engineer
JDA SoftwareComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
GitLab
GitLab 8.5
Based on 20 answers
I will admit, being an enterprise Gitlab user may come with additional access to Gitlab support. With that said, I have found them to be very supportive and responsive when prompted with questions about the tool. The engineers I've worked with have been very keen to listen to feedback from my team and have taken it back as suggestions for improvements to the tool.
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
The Walt Disney CompanyEntertainment, 10,001+ employees
Alternatives Considered
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
No answers on this topic
GitLab
Easy to use - The interface is almost similar to one of the competitors acquired by microsoft.Security - Security is well maintained as Basic Auth plus SSH options both are present and can be utilised organisation wise to improve the authorisation part.Cost effective - Its better compared to the other competitors out there in terms of cost for various team sizes.

Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology and Services Company, 5001-10,000 employeesReturn on Investment
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Accelerates the development of a developer.
- To scale the microservices very easily.
- easy to set up in CI/CD.
Software Engineer
JDA SoftwareComputer Software, 1001-5000 employees
GitLab
- Developer salaries are very expensive, and this tool saves developer time, so I'd estimate at least $1000/month ROI per developer using this tool.
- The CI interface can do wonders to improve release time and software quality. If you leverage this, there's a strong ROI here.
- Part of our business relied on secure private source code hosting; GitLab is totally the right choice for that.

Verified User
Employee in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 11-50 employeesScreenshots
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
—Pricing Details
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
General
Free Trial
—Free/Freemium Version
—Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) Editions & Modules
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Additional Pricing Details
—GitLab
General
Free Trial
Yes
Free/Freemium Version
Yes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
—Entry-level set up fee?
No
GitLab Editions & Modules
On-premise Edition
Free | $01 |
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Premium | $191 |
Ultimate | $991 |
- per user per month
SaaS Edition
Free | $01 |
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SaaS Premium | $191 |
SaaS Ultimate | $991 |
- per user per month