Gitlab, a great alternative to Github

Item: GitLab
Rating: 9
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Gitlab

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It is being used as one of our git-repository management services inside the company. We host there some of our projects and take advantage of their continuous integration and continuous deployment mechanisms to build a more solid and robust codebase.
It allows us to work collaboratively by simplifying code review processes through merge requests.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Built-in continuous integration
Built-in continuous deployment
Wiki supports
Easy collaboration between members of a team

Cons

I wish they said `Pull Request` instead of `Merge Request`.
Smaller community than GitHub for Open Source projects.

Return on Investment

It has helped us catch more bugs by preventing merge requests when CI catches a bug.

Alternatives Considered

GitHub

We selected Gitlab due to its right away capabilities for continuous integration and continuous deployment.
I believe the decision-taker did not like Microsoft's involvement with GitHub.

As the projects are closed source we did not take into consideration the size of the communities in GitHub or Gitlab.

Support Rating

I haven't contacted customer support because I haven't had any problems with Gitlab. Their service has been outstanding.

I know they have a very active Twitter account in which they provide very quick updates. As far as I know the community is pretty happy with their service.

Key Insights

Do you think GitLab delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with GitLab's feature set?

Yes

Did GitLab live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of GitLab go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy GitLab again?

Yes

Other Software Used

GitHub, Heroku Platform, CircleCI, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)

Likelihood to Recommend

Gitlab is pretty well suited for scenarios in which you want a more robust and solid codebase. The reason for that is they provide right away and with free plans too, continuous integration and continuous deployment services.

I wouldn't consider it too suited for open source projects since the community is smaller in comparison to other platforms like GitHub.

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