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What is GitLab?

GitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts.…

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GitLab The Ultimate Go-To Software for Seamless CICD Integration

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 28, 2025
Vetted ReviewVerified User
It is one of the top-of-the-line open-core DevOPs Software packages which provides all functions of securing a software code base and also provides a way to establish a custom...
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Engineer
GitLab2 years of experience

Making development life easy with GitLab

Rating: 8 out of 10
March 12, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
I have used GitLab previously in one of the team project. The built in CI/CD pipeline feature helps a lot where we don't have to worry about deploying the code manually after ...
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Nirmal Gaur
Employee - Information Technology
Software Developer
Cumulations Technologies
GitLab3 years of experience

GitLab: The best SCM and CI platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
February 19, 2025
Vetted ReviewVerified User
We are using GitLab as a cloud-based SCM service which we use to keep our application source code safe, secure, and easily accessible. We are also using GitLab as a CICD tool....
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Pranay Jain
Consultant - Information Technology
Senior Consultant
GeeksRadar
GitLab4 years of experience

A very valuable, Cost effective and Performance booster platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
October 3, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
My organization is using git for the source code management like pull, push, merge request and changes history. We are also using GitLab to track the issues and resolutions. I...
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Pankaj Choudhary
Engineer - Engineering
Freelancer Android Developer
Freelancer
GitLab5 years of experience

Modern VCS for Next Gen Agile Development.

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 22, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Gitlab to track issues by project, whether Terraform IaC projects, Node JS projects, Jupyter Notebook data analysis products, or custom in-house Python packages. We als...
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Austin Franchino
Engineer - Engineering
Senior Data and Security Engineer
Lumos Data
GitLab6 years of experience
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How GitLab Differs From Its Competitors

Continuous Integration

We used Gitlab CI to execute all of our pipelines. We used to include main templates in several repositories so that everything is centralized. It is also enabled at the Merge Request level so once an MR is submitted, the pipeline is running and the code is merged only if tests are okay and if …
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Code Management

Merge Requests and Issues are the main GitLab collaboration fearures used by the teams I work with.
The team uses branching to work on new application features and then submits merge requests to bring the code into the main branch of the repository. Most of our repositories have protected main …
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Workload Coordination

The merge request feature is probably the most used part of my team's workflow. Git and Gitlab are great for tracking code changes as it is, but we're benefitting from capturing the conversation as well. Most comments might boil down to "LGTM!" (looks good to me) but longer conversations are easy …
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Tool Consolidation

At the time I'm writing this, the teams I work with are moving out of CI/CD applications into Gitlab CI for deployments and building docker images. Because we are straddling the transition at the moment, we haven't replaced any tools but I can see our current CI engine being replaced by Gitlab. In …
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Security

Gitlab is hosted on our remote servers and various connection protocols ascertain that malicious traffic is not allowed, and an attempt to breach raises an alarm and some action is taken immediately based on the proxies set.
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Continuous Integration

Code Discussions - This helps in making a merge request non-automatic merge-able and hence prevents the final repo to have less clutter, until those discussions are resolved.
Labels - These labels help you to solving integrations problems just like discussion and you can prevent merge until a …
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Security

It provides multiple security checks such as secret detection, registry detection, Static Application Security Testing while using CI\CD.
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Continuous Integration

It helps in faster Build creation for our plugin development which helps in removing dependency related issues as well as provide build check related to styles and naming conventions which provides easy implementation of CI\CD pipelines.
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Security

We make use of GitLab's Unit Test Reports - This feature helps simplify the identification of faults within Ci/Cd ( continuous integration and deployment ) merge requests. Thus , eliminating the need for manual inspection of the software delivery pipeline, leading to faster identification of …
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Continuous Integration

GitLab provides a shared repository where my team members get to collaborate on code. This shared repository acts as a central hub for all code changes, allowing team members to easily access and contribute to the codebase. By having this single source of truth ( centralized code hub ) , we are …
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Security

We haven't tried out GitLab security vulnerability features to detect and mitigate them. We rely on third-party vendors and static code analysis tools for detecting [and] mitigating security vulnerabilities across the codebase.
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Continuous Integration

GitLab provides excellent integration with continuous integration techniques to deploy [and] test at scale for every branch. As a developer within our team would use the CI feature to test the test cases for every branch before merging them into production branches. This way it has completely …
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Security

We use the Ultimate tier from Gitlab's pricing range which allows us to the DevSecOps features. We use the Gitlab ci and cd to build and test our code using SAST to find any vulnerabilities. We also use container scanning to find issues in the docker images and license check to make sure our …
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Continuous Integration

Yes, we use the Gitlab provided continuous integration features to review the app using Static Application Security Testing to spot vulnerabilities in the code, Container scanning to detect problems in docker images and license compliance for the legality of the packages. This has reduced hum …
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Continuous Integration

We have a lint job in integrate stage in gitlab-ci.yml of our projects and that job continuously lints code on feature branches before build and this process doesn't lets the code which is faulty and it did reduced validation issues in protected and default branches as validation problems are …
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Continuous Integration

We have used Gitlab's build pipelines for continuous delivery but not continuous integration (we employ Jenkins for that instead). The build pipelines surfaced at gitlab.com do occasionally have faults, but for the most part are incredibly easy to use and add huge gains in efficiency to the …
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Security

We are on the community version. Still, the community was so supportive, and the software has regular updates that keep you safe from vulnerabilities. Overall when you consider the paid plan, GitHub is a good alternative. Security features are great, with options to add SSH to the account and …
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Continuous Integration

Continuous integration is an amazing feature when you are working in a team. When we implemented Gitlab, we didn't have any solution for which the testing process was a big task for the team. After the implementation of Gitlab, testing and collaboration became easy. While working with a team, you …
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Security

We did not use gitlab security features, we did however integrate gitlab with other solutions such as sonarqube and secured the infrastructures on the technical level (ex. remove internet access on the project level, expose the service on a restricted internal network).
Note that you can deploy …
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Continuous Integration

GitLab continuous integration solution is used whether in a self-hosted, on premise or SaaS version. Note that for new users on the SaaS version (starting around 3 years ago), GitLab no longer provides free runners since the feature was being abused by crypto miner. I myself still have free …
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Continuous Integration

Continuous integration helps us daily, it allows us in particular to validate the code of one of the contributors, ensuring that all the tests, coverages, are there. This is the guarantee of solidity of our application and we greatly appreciate this feature.
Without continuous integration, we would …
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Security

GitLab can check your application for security vulnerabilities including:
1) Unauthorized access.
2) Data leaks
3) Denial of service attacks.
4) Security scanning tools used by GitLab:
- Container Scanning
- Secret Detection
- Cluster Image scanning
- Security dashboard
- Dependency Scanning and …
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Continuous Integration

Every developer pushes is code to his feature branch and they got a dedicated URL to test their changes if it works then he raises a merge request and it will be checked and approved by Team leader and peer developer who will also verify the things and then if everything goes well it will get …
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Continuous Integration

As we have more than 30 developers on our team and daily we are having approx 150-200 commits, as per our requirement GitLab is helping us very much from per continuous integration point of view. Daily code push, code reviews, merges everything is going on and it helped a lot in terms of …
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Security

Yes, we're using paid plans of Gitlab but we're not using security features of GitLab as we're already using some other security tools such as Checkmarx, Blackduck, and SonarQube to identify security vulnerabilities and quality of code.
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Continuous Integration

By using GitLab CI we are linting our source code and deploying it on dev and test servers. GitLab pipeline is triggered on Every commit if it's configured for the branch in which a commit is made. All the collaborators receive an email from GitLab for pipeline failure if a stage is failed. …
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Continuous Integration

For our company, it is one of the most important features of GitLab. The tooling behind that (YAML syntax and linter, multiplatform GitLab runner, full interoperability with Docker containers) is very good, and also brings us all we need to assure the quality of our projects and releases.
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Security

We don't consider GitLab's security features to be comprehensive enough for us but they provide an easy way to keep track of outdated libraries with known security issues as well as scanning for base images in Dockerfiles. The vulnerability scanning and remediation capabilities are not always as …
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Continuous Integration

The continuous integration features allow us to integrate changes on a single branch and validate the code by running a suite of tests before the merge happens. After merging the code a deploy to a UAT environment is triggered and performed automatically. Testing of tickets happens on UAT …
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Code Management

Like any other git/source control service, Gitlab has collaborative code review tools that help communicate requested changes and comments to pull requests. It's feature set is comparable to Github. It's probably not as full featured as Github as a comparison, but it does what it needs and …
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Workload Coordination

Gitlab has enabled us to make full use of continuous integration and continuous delivery with their pipelines and shared runners. We were able to set up automated tests to run on pull requests and require practically anything through configuration.
We were also able to setup code reviews to require …
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Tool Consolidation

Because gitlab has a built in continuous integration runner and machines available which will compile, run tests, run code and even perform deployments and other tasks, we don't need to make use of another tool for that.
Compared to Github, it has a lot of these features built in - however Github …
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Security

The paid plan is more on the security feature. We are very happy that Gitlab provide Secret Detection. This feature scans code for sensitive information like API keys or passwords that may have been accidentally committed. Our business is very sensitive about the security especially our clients …
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Continuous Integration

Merge Conflicts is a big headache when we doing integration. We need to integrate all the developers code daily so Gitlab provide automatic testing so we will not allow our developer work on long branches. So if the developers have potential conflicts are flagged and resolved earlier in the …
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Continuous Integration

The continuous integration of GitLab allows us easily run Linting, Tests and Building of various images such as container images which are even used in the tests or specifically selected environments to ensure compliance and stability of our repositories before being deployed to the final …
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Continuous Integration

Continuous integration and continuous deployment pipeline features are some of the key features in GitLab. The very first reason I chose GitLab for my projects is this CI/CD built-in functionalities. it enables you to rapid development and integration because you don't have to worry about the bugs …
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Pricing

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GitLab Essential

$0

Cloud
per month per user

GitLab Premium

$29

Cloud
per month per user

GitLab Ultimate

$99

Cloud
per month per user

Entry-level set up fee?

  • Setup fee optional
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://about.gitlab.com/pricing?utm_me…

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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Features

Version Control Software Features

Version Control Software Features allow uses to manage and control document history and versions.

8.6
Avg 8.0
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Product Details

What is GitLab?

GitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts. GitLab helps teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software.

Differentiators, as described by Gitlab:

  • Simplicity: With GitLab, DevSecOps can be achieved through a single platform with a user-friendly interface
  • Security: GitLab offers built-in security scans that provides a comprehensive security solution.
  • Transparency: The code base for GitLab is open to community contributions, to ensure transparency and an open-core approach.
  • Cloud-Agnostic: Can be deployed anywhere with no vendor lock-in

GitLab Screenshots

Screenshot of GitLab, a comprehensive DevSecOps platform.Screenshot of Security DashboardScreenshot of Merge Request

GitLab Integrations

GitLab Competitors

GitLab Technical Details

Deployment TypesOn-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsWindows, Linux, Mac, BSD* (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or later), Android, iOS, full list see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/security/approved_os.html
Mobile ApplicationNo
Supported CountriesInternational
Supported LanguagesChinese, English, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish

Frequently Asked Questions

GitLab starts at $0.

JFrog Artifactory, Jira Align, and Jenkins are common alternatives for GitLab.

Reviewers rate Branch Protection highest, with a score of 9.2.

The most common users of GitLab are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Gitlab improve our Continuous Integration.

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 03, 2023
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Automotive Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
GitLab allows us to manage our source code into different groups. It improves code readability and efficiency, for example, with the Web IDE, which is a good feature. We are also using Gitlab CI, which is very efficient and well-integrated. We centralize users into Gitlab, and we used SAML to get them into other apps that we used within our stack (for example, SonarQube).
Pros
  • Source code management.
  • Continuous integration.
  • Merge requests flow.
  • Users management.
Cons
  • CI variables management is sometimes hard to use, for example, with File type variables. The scope of each variable is also hard to guess.
  • Access Token: there are too many types (Personal, Project, global..), and it is hard to identify the scope and where it comes from once created.
  • Runners: auto-scaled runners are for the moment hard to put in place, and monitoring is not easy.
Likelihood to Recommend
Once you have some code source to manage, Gitlab is a good choice. You don’t need to use all features to have a good experience with Gitlab. For example, if you are using another tool for CI and another tool for tickets, you can easily integrate them into Gitlab. But of course, using Gitlab CI and the integrated issues tool improve the user experience and enable the full flow that is available.

Gitlab is a Great Tool for Continuous Integration and Git-Based Code Management

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
September 24, 2020
MJ
Michael Jenkins
Senior Systems Reliability Engineer
The Walt Disney Company (Entertainment, 10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
5 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Gitlab is used by my team and many others in my organization. We use it for its core features as a web-based Git repository. This allows us to track changes in our code and make use of the collaboration features in Gitlab like issues and pull requests. We're also getting started with using the CI and package registry features.
Pros
  • Merge request management.
  • CLI User Experience (UX).
  • Continuous Integration (CI).
  • Package management.
Cons
  • User and permissions management.
Likelihood to Recommend
Gitlab is well suited for any project that requires revision tracking along with collaboration with other contributors. It supports the standard features of Git and adds its own recipe to the features that other Git SaaS providers offer as well. This includes issue tracking, pull request management (or merge request management in Gitlab speak...which I actually prefer considering the action that takes place), and recently artifact and package management. Gitlab has also been a leader in bringing CI to the repo ahead of its competitors. Of course, not all of these features need to be used. If all a dev needs is to track code, Gitlab can handle that just as well as any other cloud or self hosted repo.

Gitlab Review saves $$

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 15, 2016
Verified User
Director in Information Technology
Telecommunications Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Consolidates code to a trusted platform enabling Developers to collaborate on projects easily. Easy setup and integration with AD. The Gitlab platform is an essential part of your Continuous Integration platform.
Pros
  • Integration with software used to automate your deployments
  • GitLab UI is clean and simple
  • Run on their own webserver / database cluster
Cons
  • More robust DB
  • Include a function/plugin to check code for security/errors
Likelihood to Recommend
Gitlab is well suited for internal development. We have not tried to use Gitlab with external outside the company resources.

Version Control for Complex Projects in Small-Mid-Size Companies

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 18, 2018
LJ
Leah Jakaitis
Senior Data Analyst
Tulco Labs (Marketing and Advertising, 11-50 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
2 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I've used Gitlab at multiple roles in a few different companies, though never as a lead developer or software engineer. Especially at a small to mid-size company, Gitlab's support for project management and version control using git repos can't be beat. It works as a platform to allow for cross-organizational collaboration on code repositories. A major reason to use Gitlab in an organization is its CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous deployment) pipeline, which facilitates the passing of code to the repos reliably and quickly between team members.
Pros
  • CI/CD capabilities.
  • Variable access/security levels for different users within an organization or working on a project.
  • Project management capabilities far surpass GitHub's PM capabilities: easier to manage and organize contributions to repos.
Cons
  • Interface and use can be overwhelming for new users: built-in tutorial or key highlights would be helpful to lessen the learning curve.
Likelihood to Recommend
Gitlab is a natural evolution after a certain threshold is met in most organizations: either projects become more complex in scope, additional team members add more 'noise' to a project, or there's just an extensive amount of space or security needed. Gitlab is a reliable next step after using GitHub: it functions very similarly, and offers consistent up-time and usability (especially important if working for a remote team). The project management is a huge plus for Gitlab, and has made it managing and deploying elements of a larger, complex project less complicated.

Good product overall, but lacks Github's third-party integrations

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
July 20, 2021
Verified User
C-Level Executive in Information Technology
Computer Software Company, 1-10 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use GitLab for all our development teams. Each project has a git repository and we use GitLab CI to deploy our code to Google Cloud. And we also use the issues board for our Kanban workflow. Our team is small (four developers and one designer) and we use the free plan, acquiring extra CI minutes to run our pipelines when needed.
Pros
  • Integrated CI
  • Environment variables management
  • Git flow
Cons
  • Issues board lacks basic features for product management, like notes support
  • Integration with other third-party products. Google Cloud and Intercom offer GitHub plugins, but not for GitLab
  • It's hard to test CI build locally
Likelihood to Recommend
If you don't intend to manage the product using the issues board or don't care about third-party integrations, it's a great product, git works very well, it's fast, CI tools are advanced, and environment variables are easy to use and manage.

Overall, I'd recommend looking into your cloud platform documentation to check how to integrate with your repository if you need. For Google Cloud, I found it easier to integrate with GitHub, for example.
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