GitLab is a great all-in-one platform for software development

Item: GitLab
Rating: 8
Author: Fedor Tyurin

Overall Satisfaction with GitLab

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use GitLab mainly for code hosting, CI/CD, and issue tracking. It helps us in keeping development organised, automating deployments, and making collaboration easy. Our scope is pretty standard: managing source code, running tests, deploying services, and tracking bugs/features all in one place. We also use it for a few non-technology projects (but for people who are in close collaboration with the engineering team).

Pros and Cons

Pros

CI/CD
Source code hosting
Visualisation of test results
Merge requests

Cons

Access roles
Wiki pages editor

Return on Investment

ROI is just create, it can't be better

Alternatives Considered

GitHub

Why we chose GitLab: we started long ago with free access and it was always good enough, so we never bothered to switch.

Security

No, we are not using GitLab for security features

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, Google Cloud Platform

Likelihood to Recommend

I'm very likely to recommend it as all-in-one platform for software development projects. It really does the job. I will also put a disclaimer that it's not perfect (mainly in the UX). But it is very straightforward in many aspects, which is great

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