Overall Satisfaction with Gitlab
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.
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
Collaboration and Performance
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
Using Gitlab
5 - They represent the core business. We store the website, mobile applications and API of all our products
2 - 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
Evaluating Gitlab and Competitors
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
Gitlab Support
Pros | Cons |
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No escalation required Immediate help available | Slow Initial Response |
During setup process I couldn't implement a edge feature of CI and they helped me indicating what tutorial to follow
Using Gitlab
Pros | Cons |
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Like to use Relatively simple Easy to use Technical support not required Well integrated Consistent Feel confident using | None |
- Continuos integration
- Managing projects
- Artifacts