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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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The most common users of GitLab are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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May 16, 2023
GitLab - Great addition to our toolset.
We use GitLab for storing our code repos as well as storing the applications that we use to test our product and test applications. We integrate GitLab with Jenkins, SonarQube, blueOcean, and a variety of other applications to ensure code quality in our CI/CD pipeline. We use GitLab to track changes to applications as well as have multiple versions. GitLab is great for version history as well.
- Version history - having the ability to see when things were last changed and by who.
- Integration with our other tools - to help ensure code quality.
- Multiple repos.
- Easy navigation.
- Checking for duplications - we have ended up with two applications being the exact same for a while, and then one gets updated, and one doesn't cause issues.
- Better code quality.
- Faster time to code reviews.
- Pipeline works well with our other applications and reports all in one spot.
We migrated from Gerrit to GitLab, and minus a few minor bumps during migration, GitLab has been hands down better. Our devs have faster time to code review with notifications, the UI is easy to navigate and, and our pipeline is integrated and automated, so once everything is in place, our merges happen automatically. Gerrit was lacking in the UI, and notifications were hit or miss, so code reviews were delayed. Our pipeline is much smoother with GitLab.
We do not have a paid plan.
As stated, our code reviews are much faster with this integration; our unit tests and integration tests are triggered and reported back to GitLab, so we have all the information related to a code change in one spot rather than chasing pieces of information down to figure out what happened.
- Integrations with our other CI/CD tools.
- We integrate with Jira and the connection there is fantastic.
- We integrate with Jenkins and can easily report build failures back to gitlab and block the merge.
- Nothing particularly difficult, I do wish there was some better compare features when creating a new/updated code base because we have had issues with duplication.
September 27, 2020
Gitlab, the best on-premise Git hosting you can get
Gitlab was used by the entire engineering team (developers and operations) to hold all the code for all our projects. It was installed on-premise since we had 1000 projects to hold. All teams throughout the company used it on a daily basis to share code and discuss merge requests and issues.
- Great interface for merge requests and issues.
- Great community. It's easy to interact with and propose new stuff.
- Used Gitlab community edition for years and it solved all my complaints during these years.
- We were using Gitorious a long time ago and Gitlab helped us to get rid of it. Gitorious was really old and unmaintained, so we gave a new life to our developers.
- We had to do our own packaging for the first versions because their Debian package was really bad at the time. Our package still remains to this time, but theirs are really better now.
I only use the free version, tried the paid version but did not need it after all. For this reason, I don't have much to comment on the paid version of Gitlab.
Continuous integration is probably the best feature of Gitlab. The main Git hosting is great, but the way they do CI is awesome. Gitlab was one of the first to introduce CI and it was available for their own installation and also the open source version. I used both and they work great. I have nothing but positive things to say about it.
Yes, it certainly makes. Currently, I'm using Gitlab to host the source code for one of my clients and it certainly makes the code easy to collaborate. We use the full feature set: code hosting, CI, pull requests, etc. The interface is very clean and makes everything obvious for all developers. The fact that we can configure the CI via yml file in the source code is another plus.
I had the chance to use Gitlab when working on-premise and now working remotely for more than 3 years. In both cases, Gitlab enabled a great collaboration setup for my team. We used the open-source version installed locally at the time and now I'm using their own SaaS version. Both work seamlessly.
When using the open-source version, it prevented us to have a very expensive Github account to hold all of our repositories. Gitlab also helped us to not have a dedicated tool for review (like Gerrit) because we were able to rely entirely on their CI + Pull Request management infrastructure.
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They are all developers. We use Gitlab as a way to sync our code and review each others' work.
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Currently, it's a one-man's work. We are using the SaaS version of Gitlab. The free version is enough for our usage. It's current my role to make sure everything works as expected and buy the paid version if something else is needed. In general, there's not much to do, it just works. All the work we have to do is to improve our own process.
- Code sharing
- Easy review via Merge Requests
- Easy CI to test our code on every change request
- We use the CI to check our HTTPS certificate. On every build, we check DNSimple and upload the certificate to Heroku. It guarantees we always have the HTTPs certificate updated
- We have the whole boad of directors on Gitlab so they can create issues and interact with developers there
- All of our product tracking is done via Gitlab boards.
- We want to use Gitlab CI to deploy a new app every time we create a new merge request so people can validate the app before merging
Yes
Long ago, when I first used Gitlab, we changed from Gitorious. Gitlab was still new, but way better than its competitor. Github was not an option for us at the time because it was too expensive. Gitlab proved to be a good choice with time.
- Price
- Product Features
Github was too expensive and we wanted to deploy something in our infrastructure. The open-source version of Gitlab was exactly what we wanted. It had less features but became feature-complete for us quickly.
I wouldn't change anything. We evaluated other competitors and Gitlab was clearly the winner.
No
We were using the open-source version, but even when using the free version, I didn't need support. When I faced a problem, I provided a Merge Request to the community version or opened an issue to the code directly. Their response was usually very good.
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Yes, I did via Gitlab issues. The development team was very responsive. I was able to fix the problem myself and provide the code for the open-source version, which was promptly accepted.
I found a problem after installing a new version. I was able to reproduce myself and fixed in my local environment. I proposed a change via Merge Request and their response came in a few hours asking for more tests. I implemented them and my change was accepted some minutes after my push. The experience was great.
- CI configuration via yaml file is great. You can just use a default and do your changes via version control
- I like the way their Merge Requests work. They had many features implemented before Github.
- If you use the open-source version, you have to do the updates yourself. They have a good changelog, but it's up to you to manage the whole infrastructure. It's not a problem with Gitlab itself, but it takes time to get used to it.
Yes
I don't use it very much but their website is responsive. It seems to work well.
September 22, 2020
Gitlab is great for both enterprise solutions and personal use
I use Gitlab both personally and professionally. I have also used it at several organizations. In my current organization, it is being evaluated for rollout as a company wide version control standard.
- 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.
- In some ways, it's more difficult to navigate the web UI than I would like. Could be an overload of options, or could just be the difference of switching between different version control systems.
Gitlab makes team collaboration a breeze. Literally a life saver keeping me from having to keep track of all these different tools for artifact storage, pipelines, code management, issue tracking, etc. Doing it all in Gitlab just makes things WORK. It also helps standardize platforms so you do not have teams using 20 different tools to accomplish the same goal.
Using Gitlab really drives home remote collaboration. There are so many tools in this space now, but Gitlab really practices what they preach as they are a remote first company. As such, they have thought through what challenges remote and on-prem teams face that are the same, but have made a huge effort to deliver a product that makes sure regardless of locale you're able to work together and collaborate effectively. At the end of the day, that's the important part. From a user experience perspective, Gitlab really nails this 100%.
Gitlab actually reduces the need for quite a bit of tooling. First and foremost, Gitlab as a version control system allows teams to use it as opposed to the multitude of other vcs systems out there. Gitlab has also eliminated the need for having a separate artifact storage (at least for our needs). Finally, gitlab has made issue tracking a breeze which has eliminated the need for Jira (at least within our use case). Jenkins as well -- using Gitlab as our pipeline solution really gets rid of complexity, plugin reliability, and unnecessary configuration outside the code base.
September 22, 2020
Gitlab. Perfect for CI
We use Gitlab for every code project we have such as the website, APIs and mobile applications. It offers a free plan that has everything you need. We use Gitlab, especially for it's CI (continuous integration) feature that let us automate team working and deploying frameworks on dev and productions channels
- Continuous integration
- Git
- Automations
- Artifacts
- Faster work
We haven't use any security features provided by gitlab
We use continuous integration to share artifacts and developing status across all our channels including slack. It helps automate the QA process and get things done quicker.
Yes we use gitlab to store more than 10 different code projects. Thanks to CI we enabled automations to connect Gitlab to third party services like Slack and really helped team collaborating.
We use gitlab issue and Pull requests to assign bug or features request to developers on our team and to merge code from different environments
We replaced bitbucket just because gitlab let us have more and better automations using CIs
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They represent the core business. We store the website, mobile applications and API of all our products
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Supporting gitlab it's really easy you just need to know how to use any Git service and dev-ops softwares
- Automations
- Artifacts
- Store code
- Integrating gitlab with third party services
- for testing the backend in an automated way
Yes
It replaced bitbucket for dev-ops. We replaced it because gitlab is far better on the CI department and it help us automating and deploying artifacts in a quicker and easier way then bitbucket
- Product Features
- Product Usability
- Product Reputation
- Prior Experience with the Product
We decided to use Gitlab for price + automations and CIs features the gitlab provides
in the process I would evaluate "Gitlab" just because it now supports CIs
No
During setup process I couldn't implement a edge feature of CI and they helped me indicating what tutorial to follow
- Continuos integration
- Managing projects
- Artifacts
August 13, 2019
The best chemistry of version control happens in Gitlab
We use Gitlab across our entire business, from documentation to code versioning to CI/CD and IaaS. We've used other documentation tools such as Confluence by Atlassian but we keep coming back to Markdown in Gitlab because of the simplicity, exportability, portability, better versioning, better integration - such as with Readthedocs. Our helpdesk team finds Gitlab easy to use. We also use Gitlab for our development teams and operations teams.
- Markdown.
- CI/CD integration.
- User and group management.
- Branding.
- Standard Gitlab implementation.
- Themes.
- Need to reconfigure too often.
- Use the same Markdown engine everywhere.
- Better documentation.
- Better bug fixes.
- Better team coordination.
- Better productivity from our operations and development teams.
Gitlab surpasses Bitbucket in all areas except of course the very tight integration Bitbucket has with JIRA and Confluence. Almost everyone uses JIRA at some level or time so Bitbucket has a more natural and tight integration feel. However, there is good JIRA integration with Gitlab and we have found that we're not sacrificing anything to afford ourselves a better experience in every other area when choosing Gitlab over Bitbucket.
Gitlab is as good as GitHub in every area that we use version control. It excels in that we keep everything in-house and tightly monitored. We do not open our Gitlab instances to anonymous users and our public repositories are public only to our teams.
Gitlab is as good as GitHub in every area that we use version control. It excels in that we keep everything in-house and tightly monitored. We do not open our Gitlab instances to anonymous users and our public repositories are public only to our teams.