Source Code management makes easy That is GitLab

Item: GitLab
Rating: 10
Author: Mahesh Kumar

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We are GitLab for storing our all code base on a server. It is very easy and convenient to use. It is the best tool for source code management. It has east CI/CD integration where we can directly deploy and build our application on the go. It is an open-source, secure, and reliable tool for any organisation. Its integration with Kubernetes and Jenkins is easy to process. There are a variety of runners to run pipelines jobs with visual status and progress. It comes with easy and understandable documentation. It is the most widely used source management tool.

Pros and Cons

CI/CD Integration
Source Code Management
Collaborative coding among users.
Stable and complete setup for code versioning.
Easily setup with Kubernates and Jenkins.
Directly integrate with server for hosting website and server.

They should come up with more cost effective plan.
They should improved authorisation part.
It must have better management over MR(Merge Requests).

Return on Investment

Solved Source code management problem.
Manage users among all repositories
Easy to build and deployment.

Alternatives Considered

GitHub and Bitbucket

The first thing is other products except GitLab is there is very costly and does not have any customise thing. Gitlab is an open-source license product that makes its use easier and more cost-effective that's why we have chosen Gitlab among other products with the same features. The other products like GitLab and Bitbucket have limited numbers of repositories provided as private in the free plan for more Repos we need to purchase their plan which is expensive.

Continuous Integration

We have integrated the Kubernetes pods and we have built a process to validate the code and its integrity. we have an auto pipeline running on every newly added branch and on every push to code runs an automatically build pipeline which will check for any build error and validate the code.

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

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Slack, Twilio Authy

Likelihood to Recommend

In our organisation we have a lot of applications that require a reliable source to manage source code and GitLab helps us to achieve this very well. We have functionality like after every merge request merger we have to deploy code to our server which is running on Kubernetes pods and GitLab is very helpful in this as it has a nice and easy implementation for integrating CI/CD for the deployment of code to servers and then we can our manual jobs to fetching data. Gitlab provides us a job status with visual logs and suggestions to make it better.