GitLab

To develop the new checkout process team creates branches in GitLab's repository for each component. Each developer works on their respective branch and implement specific work. To manage all these branches team uses GitLab's flag capabilities. GitLab's built-in monitoring and feedback tools allow team to monitor the performance of the process in real-time and get the feedback from users.

GitLab is well suited for team collaboration, CI/CD automation, and version control in software development projects. However, it may be less appropriate for individual projects, non-code projects, or scenarios with limited resources or technical expertise.

GitLab is our code repository for many teams. It is what we use for merge requests. It has scaled very well as our company as grown. We have been able to on board new teams to GitLab pretty quickly. I would like to see a tighter integration with Jenkins - we are not currently using GitLab CI/CD.

Continuous Integration (CI): GitLab's robust CI capabilities makes it an ideal choice for automating critical steps involved in testing, building, and ensuring code security and quality. With GitLab CI, my team has been able to define pipelines that automatically trigger various stages of the software development process, such as compiling, testing, and deploying code changes. Thus , minimizing manual interventions and accelerating the software deployment cycle, leading to faster releases. Continuous Software Security: By incorporating security scans, vulnerability assessments, and code quality checks into our CI/CD pipelines, GitLab has helped to identify potential security vulnerabilities early within the software development lifecycle. This proactive approach enables prompt mitigation of security risks and ensures that our software deployments are secure and comply with known coding standards.

Its a great tool for ci cd pipeline and there are so many features which can be used by devops and developers, the git repo management is mature. And big enterprise level team can use it

During the pandemic, like so many other companies, we had a heck of a time brining people together to work on the things we need to work on. Once our team got on the same page, Gitlab allowed people collectively to work on a lot of projects just like we were all next to each other. I think the software is built for collaboration like that.

GitLab offers a complete package for software development, project management, and DevOps. It is like a one-stop solution. It is best suited for any organization who are building software. - With Git repos, we can version control source code - With WIki pages, we can maintain documentation - With CI/CD, we can enable DevOps - With issues, we can create boards and track backlog items and there are many more features.

Any small to medium custom application development Gitlab works great for. If you are a large code development shop, there are other products on the market that can do everything in GitLab better, more secure, and make administration easier. For the price, GitLab is great for those with budget-conscious needs in mind.

Gitlab is best suitable for version hosting repositories so that multiple people can code simultaneously and store code on GitLab. Gitlab is less appropriate when you want to set up DevOps, AutoDevops to be specific its really hard to configure everything on GitLab. So recommended for beginners but for advanced users, there are multiple best options in the market.

For tracking issues and communication with the different teams within a project, it is ideal. It has very good resources for estimating time spent and delivery times, as well as milestones. For internal management, it has greatly improved in recent versions the characteristics of the reports that it allows extracting (which are sent by mail to avoid delays from the interface).

The most important consideration for me , as far as Gitlab is concerned is around how we have successfully used Gitlab , to seamlessly connect the operational side of coding or software development , with other important areas such as code or software security. The aforementioned is key for us to effectively release a commercially efficient software product to our end users.

GitLab provides a web-based UI for managing our source code. It is best suited for all types of projects irrespective of their size. We can create groups and subgroups for making segregation among code bases. GitLab provides all the git operations using a web user interface. Integration with any IDE (Eclipse, Progress Developer Studio, STS, Intellij, etc) is very easy and smooth. I found GitLab's best version control, earlier we are using SVN.

GitLab is great for organizations that want to automate the CI/CD pipeline. Getting running on GitLab took very little time. Migration from BitBucket was a piece of cake. If you have projects that already build on a command line, you'll find the transition to GitLab will be relatively straightforward. Automated builds have put our organization into a better compliance position with some of our partners and have enabled more developers in the organization to deploy code with confidence.

For the creation of private repositories, it is very well suited, we are getting this feature in the non-premium version also, which is very great. The other functionalities like the creation of repo, and assignment of users are great. UI is very good, we can easily review the merge request and provide our comments.

Gitlab is an incredible git tool if you are a new user and you are looking for VCS software. Project with many developers and many maintainers, with one/many Scrum masters You can check your activities, discuss with your coworkers about an issue/activity, approve merge requests, update changes for your teammates, request changes, and so on.

Really great tool to use for collaboration between teams. Finding and fixing bugs can be done very quickly and safely. And we can see what others are doing. Combine automatically deployed web repositories and API repositories to develop in a variety of environments. And it's free and open-source so it will suit small-scale startups too.

As a development team, we are always concerned about the security of our clients' code, GitLab offers security by managing the correct access of all the members of the team, we have an admin that controls the access and the code is always available all the time 24/7. We love git and we're happy with GitLab, we can use any kind of client with GUI or just CLI.

Well suited:
- Gitlab is well suited for organizations with a good headcount. At least 500 +.
- Large orgs generally follow an Org->Group->Repo hierarchy. So it can easily manage the repo architecture.
- Gitlab is very secure. So orgs who want to have a highly secure environment should use Gitlab.
- Organizations who do not want to spend on any CI tool can use this. As it's becoming more & more self-sufficient lately.
- If the Org follows a proper workflow of branching & merging strategy, then they should use GitLab.

Less Appropriate:
- Less Appropriate for small-scale organizations that do not want to spend huge amounts on the licensing cost.
- If you have a robust CI on Jenkins/Bamboo etc. then you can skip using GitLab & use open-source alternatives like Github.
- If we are just dealing with a Sandbox-type environment & code is just a POC then maybe less security can be an option. And Gitlab can be avoided.

We were hosting our own CI/CD server, with another solution but we switched to Gitlab and we are on the brink of turning the old server off. Just a couple of our projects need to be migrated in order to do so. At first, of course, learning about the CI/CD concepts and the particular Gitlab implementation was a pain, as you would expect. But with a little bit of effort and patience, you will love the YAML structure and possibilities. It will let you make all sorts of things from just using the repository space to implementing a complete CI/CD solution including building, testing, and deploying manually or automatically based on branch conventions, for example.

Projects on a scale from 2-50+ people are most well served by this, after a project becomes really big, tracing changes in a build/project become a bit unmanageable. I beieve tracing would be difficult even with GitLabs versioning. A well-designed and easily navigable UI helps everyone understand what's going on, even if they are not super familiar with coding or changes to the code. Wide use amongst other companies allows for easy crossover work.

GitLab is very well suited for both small-scale projects and large-scale projects. My personal opinion is GitLab's pricing structure is very reasonable. Its free tier offers a lot of good features. GitLab UI is more attractive than its competitors, personally, I feel it's easier to use GitLab than its competitors like GitHub.

In the case where there are large groups of functionally related but modular coding projects, GitLab provides the capacity for organizational structure and optimum search functionality. Merge requests offer an environment well suited to ongoing conversations due to seamless and visible commenting functionality. For analysis of existing code, the absence of navigation capability makes for a somewhat cumbersome experience at times.

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.

I have never had a CI/CD that was as easy to use and configure as GitLab. As a user of the pipelines at our company, it is very clear what each pipeline is intending to do and understand what commands these pipelines run (by looking at the code repository's GitLab.YAML file). Reviewing code and providing valuable feedback is also easy on GitLab, which is something I do on a day-to-day basis. From here, these files are easy to adjust when needed and they even provide a syntax tool to make sure the file is properly written before you commit the file. On top of this, at the company level, it seems GitLabhas all the tools and features we need to work on different types of projects or team structures.

GitLab is an excellent platform to manage git repositories and CI/CD pipelines. We could choose on-premise and on-cloud options. The UI is very intuitive and easy to learn.
The issue tracker doesn't have a rich functionality repertoire, so probably we need to complement with other external tools.