Overall pretty good software, for building your own software.

Item: GitLab
Rating: 8
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Gitlab is being used as both a source code repository as well as a CI/CD solution. Gitlab as a whole is used within our enterprise, but we are using our own instance. Using Gitlab allows us to keep revisions of the code we are deploying in a central repository, as well as continually integrating and deploying our software.

Pros and Cons

Source Code repository.
CI/CD.
Source code reviews.

There have been GUI issues.
We have encountered issues upgrading.
It seems to still have rough edges.

Return on Investment

It's sped up our pipelines.
We've been able to capture source code.

Alternatives Considered

GitHub and Bitbucket

We liked Gitlab because it's pretty extensible. We were having issues with Bitbucket and were looking for something that we could get to do what we want.

Support Rating

We haven't had a lot of reasons to open up support tickets, but when we have, Gitlab has addressed our issues. So I am pretty happy about that.

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

VMware ESXi, EMC Isilon Scale-Out NAS, Morpheus

Likelihood to Recommend

Gitlab is well suited for those that have a familiar experience with CI/CD, and can get their way around their source code repository. We have encountered some issues where it has started to slow down a bit, but we just gave the VM more resources.

Code Management

Gitlab has allowed my team to be able to review code, as well as give approval for code roll outs. This has allowed us to make sure that our code has less errors as well as track changes that are made through the software's life cycle.

Workload Coordination

Most importantly, Gitlab has saved us from one team member having their software on their personal computer, and we face the loss of both the code and any history of the code. Beyond that, Gitlab has allowed us to be able to create structure around our roll outs of software and to be able to make sure all the code we send out is reviewed by peers.

Tool Consolidation

At this point, we are still evaluating to use some of the more DevOps and consolidated tools for GitLab. So currently we are using multiple tools for our collaboration.