Excellent Tool for Developers and DevOps Engineers

Item: GitLab
Rating: 9
Author: Haimanot Getu

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

A multi-purpose platform for developers and DevOps engineers.

Pros and Cons

Free
Simple, yet powerful pipelines
Good for CI/CD
Good at handling permissions
GitLab runner
GitLab build engines

User interface can be optimized

Alternatives Considered

GitHub and Jenkins

It's powerful and it has most of the features that my team and project needs.

It allows us to see which part of our code has a merge conflict, so we can directly edit the conflict part without worrying [about] pulling, fixing, and pushing again. Code review can also be done easily.

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?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy GitLab again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Atlassian JIRA Align (formerly AgileCraft), Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Jenkins, GitHub

Likelihood to Recommend

GitLab is great for large companies whose data is sensitive. Someone can use GitLab to leverage its building, runner, CI/CD pipelines for large projects.

Code Management

Yes, it made managing code and assets related to the code easy.

Workload Coordination

The platform has so many features and documentation. It also provides some of [the] best practices we know and love in other platforms.

Tool Consolidation

Yeah, my team is using GitLab for the whole CI/CD stage. So it's pretty much making our lives easy.