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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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A very valuable, Cost effective and Performance booster platform

Rating: 9 out of 10
May 17, 2025
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

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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Verified user
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

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

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).
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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

1. It has great features where one can share code.
2. If I have to leave comments and show it to someone, I can share the link of the comment and on cliking of this link, it takes me direct to the mentioned scoll area of the =comment
3. My team is very happy top use this
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Security

There are some conflicts at times, which isn't exactly a con of the software. A bit confusing at the beginning, it's complex and has a steep learning curve. The user interface could do a make-over. Sometimes it gets very slow and provides a problem to connect or update to the servers. Search is …
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Continuous Integration

It is a great collaborative tool that allow us to manage the projects and ensure the progress is on schedule. The reporting function is very helpful for the communications within the organization.

My organisation provided me unlimited access of repository, integrate several API and third party …
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Security

Security considerations in GitLab are mainly covered by the security team in my organization. However, colleagues dedicated to the security of the company have been satisfied with GitLab and the features that the application has to offer when it comes to integrating the tool with the general …
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Continuous Integration

We use GitLab to precisely share code and manage versions of IaC in AWS and applications for our clients. The ability to merge requests and manage versions makes it easy for our team to reduce redundancy in our code and efficiently manage progress of our applications. It has also been an essential …
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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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Security

Definitely. However, do note that it is not a catch-all thing (nothing in security ever is), so please review, try it out, and see if it meets your needs.
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Continuous Integration

I think this is an implementation question. CICD are just tools in a toolbox. You configure what you want. Separating code into different projects, running scripts to test, deploy, etc. is all up to the user. It is just a way for you to run code. Dockerise if you want. There are a lot of …
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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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Security

We have not gone through the Paid Plan feature yet but have used the branch protection feature which helped us to prevent unauthorized merges of code and The two-factor authentication feature also helps to protect Git from any random user accessing it. The dependencing feature is also used …
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Continuous Integration

In our team when one developer creates a merge request then CI pipeline runs itself to check and validate the changes before merging and the pull request helps the other developer to check that changes merged can affect their code changes or not. CI also can be integrated into various tools which …
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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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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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Continuous Integration

We have not yet enabled continuous integration into our practices. We are actively discussing the possibility and are working through the details of it. We are trying to shift the mindset of our users, and to adhere to DevOPS best practices, but still have a ways to before that happens. But it is …
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Security

Yes, one of the big advantages of GitLab against other solutions is the security model. First of all GitLab is an open source so every system vulnerability is much easier to fix. Another option that GitLab is usually preffered is that is provides self hosted options (paid, free and on premise). …
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Continuous Integration

In Drupal.org the built ni GitLab CI runs the tests every time a new merge request is added. This makes a huge amount of time to the Drupal module maintainers. Also, testing a PHP Drupal module on several PHP or MySQL versions is crucial for the module development and its adoption.
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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 have used both Gitlab Enterprise & Gitlab SAAS. We have used Static Application Security Testing & Dynamic Application Security testing with Gitlab code. We have also used Blackduck Scanning on Gitlab repos. We also have Checkmarx integration with Gitlab.
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Continuous Integration

Our team is now using Jenkinsfile within the Gitlab source code repository. Instead of creating complex pipelines in Jenkins, we are simply putting all the stages & steps within a groovy script. This has made it easier for the team to view the entire pipeline in a single text file. Also, it has …
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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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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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Continuous Integration

We're using self-hosted GitLab right now. Now we can easily share code with Lead to validate/review which help us to reduced issues
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Continuous Integration

The shared repository feature has allowed us to collectively upload code and GitLab will trigger the code integration which allows for reduction in manual integration efforts. This allows for frequent code commits without conflicting code changes.
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Continuous Integration

We have CI on all of our repositories to various extents. In some cases they merely build and test, in other cases they will do a full deployment if the code is on Master. Having CI tightly integrated with the source code management and branches, like GitLab does, makes it easy to see what CI is …
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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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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 in a SaaS or self-hosted environment

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
September 16, 2024
Verified User
Consultant in Information Technology
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
Used the GitLab solution whithin many clients information systems for : - code management / code repository - Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery I also installed GitLab as a self hosted service on-premise, on the cloud and also use the SaaS version
GitLab is used for both code management, PRs (or merge requests in GitLab), CICD and version management
Pros
  • Code repository
  • Git flow & Merge requests
  • Web IDE
Cons
  • Premium version / licence policy
  • Integration with other services (ex. jira)
  • Backup and recovery scripts
Likelihood to Recommend
I would definetly recommand GitLab having a free solution that allows all kinds of companies to have a self-hosted solution for code managemenent, CI/CD and users management. It also provides integration with Active Directories and other ticketing software.
Note that gitlab is open source and the base version can enable quick code repository setup for any organisation, with the ability to upgrade at any time.

Great product to manage your codebase !!

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 09, 2023
Verified User
Engineer in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
6 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
we use GitLab for maintaining our code base online and we use it for keeping many different repos
Pros
  • CI/CD
  • Difference between previous and present code
  • Labels feature
  • scheduling in CI/CD
  • Editor of GitLab where we can insert tables also for mentioning overview
Cons
  • At times it's server is down so the changes pushed are not reflected at the same time. It should be faster and quick and changes should be visible at the same time
Likelihood to Recommend
1. Best for maintaining different repos
2. can be integrated with Jira, slack, etc.
3 . CI/CD is awesome.
4. Editor for GitLab is good

Great platform to manage our code base

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
April 19, 2022
AR
Abhishek Raj
Senior Software Engineer
Salt Pharmaceuticals (Pharmaceuticals, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
6 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
I have used it for managing different repositories of our project. Multiple developers manage their branches here and it is also helpful for Jenkin integration. We can manage roles also so that we can give correct access to the right person.
Pros
  • Manage repository
  • Manage branches
  • Manage role and access
  • Help in deployment
Cons
  • It can provide its own deployment server.
  • Docker and Jenkin window can be integrated inside.
  • Authorization can be handled properly.
Likelihood to Recommend
Gitlab helps in managing code base and it is easy to use and handle. There is a minor bug in creating merge requests but it can be acceptable.

Best collaborative tool to manage our projects

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
June 18, 2021
Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering
Information Technology & Services Company, 1001-5000 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
2 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
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.

Pros
  • Projects management
  • Issues tracking
  • Private repository hosting
  • Merge requests
  • Easy UI and user-friendly
Cons
  • It consumes more space in CPU.
  • Some times it takes more time to download the final build.
  • Server issues.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is a great collaborative tool that allows us to manage the projects and ensure the progress is on schedule. The reporting function is very helpful for the communications within the organization. I feel like a professional developer using it, my code is always backed up and up to date on a beautiful web user interface. I love how the badges look and how it feels colorful.

Your tool for managing DevOps in AWS

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
May 05, 2023
MC
Miguel Campos Ribau
Cloud Engineer
Trek10, Inc. (Information Technology & Services, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
GitLab
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
GitLab is used as the main devops platform for many teams in our organization to manage both internal and client projects. We use it as a central repository to version control and collaboratively develop cloud solutions, applications and internal systems. For clients, it is mainly used to develop IaC for AWS infrastructure. Internally, a good example of how we use GitLab is in our time tracking system.
Pros
  • Version control
  • Integration with Visual Studio Code
  • Continuous deployment to AWS
Cons
  • Ease of troubleshooting
  • Remote log ins
  • Cost
Likelihood to Recommend
GitLab is well suited for large teams that needs to collaboratively develop complex applications, either for internal projects or for clients. From experience, GitLab is also well suited to develop infrastructure as code in the AWS ecosystem. It has good version control, an efficient interface to merge requests and a good integration with external tools.
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