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Easy and Simple to use
October 20, 2022

Easy and Simple to use

Subramanian Kuthalingam | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with GitLab

We used GitLab for VCS, Project Management, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery - CI/CD Of Dev-Ops practice in agile method to execute the complex software development solution implementation to manufacturing industry with multiple stakeholders (end user, BA, Solution Architect, PMO, Developer, Tester, Deployment Engineer) bring every one same page on the progress of the project. This is one stop solution for VCS, CI/CD and DevOps requirements
  • Real-time status update thru Task & Issue Tracker and developer collaboration
  • GitLab offers push request rules, merge request approvals and merge request drafts, and protected branches. Similarly, it provides simple migration from previous GIT providers to GitLab.
  • Manage projects faster and better, there are planning tools available such as issues, task lists, assignees to projects, and time tracking. Supervision of general business performance
  • Automated merge requests when CI/CD succeeds, and DevOps reports point to areas of improvement.
  • Security measures, the platform proposes code quality reports, vulnerability management, Infrastructure as Code Security Scanning, Dynamic Application Security Testing, and Dynamic API Security Testing.
  • Dashboard needs improvement with analytical insights
  • SLA tracking need more granular functionality
  • Integration with third party tools
  • Pricing is very high
  • Full DevOps product with great features
  • Able to (around 30%) Reduce resource rework time
  • Achieved 25% cost reduced on PM
  • GitLab license pricing is very high compare with other (negative)
GitLab is full DevOps product compare with others as just VCS with other product integration. We will have control and security measures with us.
This is one of the main reason to choose apart pmo and code security and api life cycle is very important to us.
Our team effectively using this feature which help to reduce resource time and cost for projects

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

Git Lab supports a full DevOps cycle. DevOps is an approach to creation in which developers and operations have a constant communication flow. Easy to use and simple & straightforward without complexity. Collaboration with multiple teams and spread across in different countries. This is an open source code product which can be more useful for private instant related requirements

Collaboration and Performance

This is one of the key use case for using this products and make life easier for our employees
This was bit difficult during the pandemic then able to mange and establish the framework to address those changes. It's better end to end control now
It helps to reduce number tools to be used. However, we still need specific tools to have better outcome and faster execution purpose.