Cost-effective, well integrated, developer-centric
August 21, 2018
Cost-effective, well integrated, developer-centric
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Gitlab
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
- Low running cost to self host an instance
- Developer hours saved by providing us with a platform for GIT version control
- Developer hours saved using CI-CD pipelines (e.g. 2x efficiency in deployment and testing)
In terms of issue tracking and wiki documentation, Gitlab isn't as fully featured as them and has a more developer-centric workflow and GUI. This makes it more difficult for other organisation members to learn and adopt the software fully. However, Gitlab was still chosen primarily as our version control manager of choice due to its integrations, CI-CD pipeline capability and cost-effectiveness, rather than a tool for issue tracking across the organisation.