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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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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
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| Deployment Types | On-premise, Software as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based |
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| Operating Systems | Windows, Linux, Mac, BSD* (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS or later), Android, iOS, full list see https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/security/approved_os.html |
| Mobile Application | No |
| Supported Countries | International |
| Supported Languages | Chinese, English, German, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Spanish |
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GitLab starts at $0.
Reviewers rate Project Access Control and Branch Protection highest, with a score of 9.3.
The most common users of GitLab are from Small Businesses (1-50 employees).
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The first time I got acquainted with Gitlab was in 2016 when we were developing a complex project of an online adaptive learning platform. We used the self-hosted version back then, and it's still used in this project. In the organization where I currently work, we first used BitBucket, but then I implemented GitLab and we successfully migrated to it. We use GitLab now not only for version control but also for automating uploads to servers.
- Version control.
- CI/CD.
- Code review.
- Access right management.
- UI needs to be improved.
December 21, 2022
GitLab Gits It Done!
For people who are software developers, GitLab is top tier. In our office, where software development is a skill that is not our specialty, the UI of GitLab helps out immensely for projects big and small, and important and not. It can manage our product and automating deployment with very few, if any, errors. It's very useful to brings members of the team together for one project.
- Flexibility for novice users
- So many sources for help with Support and the Community who use it
- Easy collaboration on projects
- Few pesky bugs here and there, but nothing major
- Forgiving UI, but also really slow UI
- Dashboards should show analytics
December 20, 2022
An amazing software for CI/CD and git management.
Gitlab is a great tool for the GIT repository and Continuous Integration/ Continuous Deployment. We normally use this for keeping track of the website changes, automated testing, and deployment of the site on the server. The automated build process also helps to integrate recent technologies easily, with seamless team collaboration.
- Git Repo Management.
- CI/CD
- Automated testing.
- initial Setup.
- Community
- Security
I have been using GitLab in my team for more than 4 years, and the experience has been amazing. We started using it primarily for version management for our codebase. Gradually it gave newer updates and features and we also started using most of the features of GitLab. Now we use it for code versioning, project repository, CI/CD pipelining, infra activities, etc.
- The way they have managed to provide the version management aspect using git with project setup and users is mesmerising cause there's no product out there that gives this freely.
- Continuous updates and hearing what users need is what the product engineers at GitLab are doing best. They come back to you with exactly what you need every while.
- Quality features, Latest tech integrations have made the end-to-end solution very flexible and agile.
- CI/CD tools implementation with pipelines and deployment strategies is just making the job for Infra teams smoother.
- Gitlab still needs to improve its mail notifications and other notifications integrations. As the mails/pings are sometimes very late and don't have the proper structure to it.
- The GUI can be improved, commenting, PR Review, and Conflict management gets a bit messy due to the dated UI style. It needs to work on the UX to make it easier to use.
- The pricing for the basic plan is free which is awesome but the immediate next plan is bit on the costlier side if you tally with the competitors.
December 06, 2021
A Very Good Option for Your CI/CD Solution
We have been using Gitlab for four years now. We migrated from other similar products and it is not the first CI/CD solution I'v use so I have a comparison point. I've been involved in the migration and the writing of the CI scripts personally for several projects with different technologies, so I'm not lying when I say I'm very happy with the product overall. We use GitLab to build, run tests, tag, and deploy automatically all sorts of projects. The only thing missing was a native Windows runner in the cloud as we needed it for old net projects. But good news, it is under development! And even though Gitlab doesn't have it yet, they provide a way to install and run your own Windows runner on your server.
- Packaging.
- Build projects and run tests.
- Deploy entire solutions.
- Provides a way to make available the packages to the final users.
- Windows runner.
- The test report could be improved.
November 27, 2021
A code management platform with excellent code review capability but a key missing feature
We use Gitlab as the primary tool for maintaining and versioning code. In my department specifically, this includes architecture, tooling, and harnesses that contribute to machine learning pipelines. New projects are created in GitLab, existing projects are maintained, and its merge request functionality is used for the evaluation of refactors, new features, and products.
- Repository search capabilities.
- Merge requests / code reviews.
- IDE Integration.
- No in-line code navigation.
- Sparse documentation regarding preferable merge process.
- Lack of display support for certain file types.
June 18, 2021
Best collaborative tool to manage our projects
We use Gitlab for developing mobile and tablet apps. It's an easy tool to use and code. It's available for free and easy to manage and configure. My organization provided me unlimited access to the repository, integrate several API and third-party servers, and consume only reliable uptime. Built-in configuration and continuous delivery features make it seem less to go from a code change to running a pipeline.
- Projects management
- Issues tracking
- Private repository hosting
- Merge requests
- Easy UI and user-friendly
- It consumes more space in CPU.
- Some times it takes more time to download the final build.
- Server issues.
GitLab was used by our Information Technology team and we tried it for a few months as we're trying to improve our Git workflow since we were getting more extensive projects, so it requires a better coding organization between different developers and teams (we even worked with our clients IT department as well).
- Branches management
- Repository organization
- Code review
- Steep learning curve.
- User interface is not that friendly to new users.
- Could improve on integration with external applications.
GitLab is the premier software versioning system. However, it has grown in the last couple of years to be much more than that. Everything related to tracking issues to closure, planning, troubleshooting, Kanban boards, roadmaps has recieved multiple great iterations to the point where we use it for much more than just storing the source code we make.
- It uses the well-known Git language to communicate with, which is very popular
- The interface is slick and easy to get used to
- They are very transparant in their security issues
- Updating the software from the command line is the easiest I have come across
- Despite having a good UI, they regularly tweak it, meaning you might have trouble finding a particular feature after an update
- The higher tier plans are abit too pricey in my opinion
- It has a learning curve due to the amount of features included
May 27, 2021
Great! But maybe GitHub is better?
It's used company wide and it is our go to for all things CI/CD. We build all our projects using GitLab and use it as part of our automated testing processes also. In addition, pipelines are also used for deployment onto our cloud environments like Google Cloud Platform via Terraform.
- Scalable build slaves (called runners).
- Fast to start pipelines (coming from GoCD).
- Visual pipeline mapping.
- Upstream and downstream interactivity is done within the gitlab-ci.yml only.
- Sensitive variables are "hidden" but not really if you are part of the access group.
- Environment variables cannot be self populated when running a new pipeline.
December 18, 2018
Version Control for Complex Projects in Small-Mid-Size Companies
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.
- 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.
- Interface and use can be overwhelming for new users: built-in tutorial or key highlights would be helpful to lessen the learning curve.
August 21, 2018
Cost-effective, well integrated, developer-centric
Gitlab is currently used across our company predominantly by our technical staff as our go-to version control manager, CI-CD pipeline and developer wiki tool for internal and external projects.
- Version control
- Open source
- Issue tracking
- Slightly difficult learning curve for non-technical staff to navigate through the relevant pages in projects
- No ability to fully customise permissions
- Issue tracking is not the most user friendly