Why is it recommended to use GitLab?

Item: GitLab
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We host our app code on it- the app is on microservices so GitLab provide us a space to push our code in different environments also its part of our ci cd pipeline which means it s used in delevery automation thus GitLab is very crucial in our work flow

Pros and Cons

Host code
Brach management
Review code
Ci/cd

Return on Investment

Easy to use
Facilitate delevery

Alternatives Considered

GitHub

Actually there is no big difference between them it was a choice by our architects and i think its more professional tool than GitHub that is community

Continuous Integration

As i said it s a part of our release process but the pipeline in our company is managed by jenkins

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?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of GitLab go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy GitLab again?

Yes

Other Software Used

GitHub, Gerrit Code

Likelihood to Recommend

As said its a crucial part of our product delevery which means it s allow us to share code with everyone in the team and manage branches to be pushed to master and after that enters in our jenkins pipeline where we analyse code and deploy it to our prod environment