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Complete DevOps lifecycle management

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Onur
Onur
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Gitlab Review

Reviewed on 04/08/2023

I really like using Gitlab CI. We are building and deploying our applications using Gitlab CI...

I really like using Gitlab CI. We are building and deploying our applications using Gitlab CI mostly every day. It's very stable and fast. So that m overall experience is very good with Gitlab CI.

Pros

The working style of most of the CI/CD tools are similar in the background. The ones that has better UI and fast responses are making a difference in the market. Gitlab CI, by far has the best UI. The button clicks, flows and placement of the features are very well-designed.

Cons

I cannot say least but I would be happier if Gitlab adds more UI features in CI/CD level.

Alternatives Considered

Circle and Azure DevOps Services

Reasons for Choosing GitLab

We were not satisfied with the CI/CD tool that we were using because of stability problems.

Switched From

Jenkins

Reasons for Switching to GitLab

We just compared the UI/UX experience of all alternative producsts and Gitlab and decided to move forward with it. In technical terms, also Gitlab CI is very satisfying.
Aiden
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Good but github maybe a better choice

Reviewed on 14/11/2024

Pros

It essentially operates the same as github, however, it scales much better. I really enjoy gitlab, even though in some instances it isn’t free. Good choice for your next project.

Cons

I don’t love that’s it’s not free. It’s kind of a deal breaker for some, especially because github exists.

Alternatives Considered

GitHub and Bitbucket

Reasons for Choosing GitLab

The team I was apart of used it, so it was my only choice.

Switched From

GitHub

Reasons for Switching to GitLab

once again my team was using it so it was a natural choice.
Kelly
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  • Industry: Real Estate
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great and Simple

Reviewed on 22/01/2025

very great! Able to assist me in all I need to do without too much learning.

very great! Able to assist me in all I need to do without too much learning.

Pros

Super easy to understand. There's a nice tutorial when you first use but if you don't, it's easily mastered.

Cons

Some features locked behind payment which I'd prefer a sample test of.

David
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  • Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Good choice for controlling your own code

Reviewed on 04/10/2024

Pros

An alternative to github that we can run on our own hardware and control our own data.

Cons

Upgrades can be difficult as the automated portions fail at each major upgrade and require manual intervention.

Alternatives Considered

GitHub and Azure DevOps Services

Reasons for Switching to GitLab

Price was the deciding factor when we made the choice.
Eber
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 3.0 /10

Same that other brands but cheaper

Reviewed on 04/11/2024

Really good, we use for a ton of projects in the company and it has plenty of customizations and...

Really good, we use for a ton of projects in the company and it has plenty of customizations and features, and is cheaper than other for almost the same

Pros

The UI is really straightforward, set-up a in-house deployment also is super easy , and cheaper

Cons

Sometimes apply the updates is a bit tricky

Ritesh
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Github Alternatiive?

Reviewed on 28/11/2024

Pros

I have been using gitlab for over 6 months now. The actions it has are amazing which has helped me to automate builds and deployments. The authentication was easy.Also, if you have previous experience with github it would not take much time for you to hoop on to this.

Cons

The UX is not very decent. Since i have a github background i find it very difficult to find the feature on the pages

Joseph
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  • Industry: Health, Wellness & Fitness
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Okay it's not Github but it's still good! Don't fear it!

Reviewed on 08/10/2024

Positive. Good. I submit my work, request code reviews, make merge requests, merge things in,...

Positive. Good. I submit my work, request code reviews, make merge requests, merge things in, automation is set up nicely. It works well.

Pros

Straightforward alternative to the Github experience. Good layout. Does not get in the way. Tracks what needs tracking.

Cons

Purely that it's a different experience from Github, which takes some getting used to.

Miguel
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Best in market for Source Control and CICD

Reviewed on 09/11/2024

Pros

Like that it's very complete and easy to use.

Cons

CICD Pipelines are sometimes a bit difficult to develop.

Alternatives Considered

GitHub

Reasons for Switching to GitLab

Some clients required a custom installation and we found it to be easy set up with GitLab
Eric
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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1-5 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

Awesome Software

Reviewed on 15/01/2025

Overall it was a solid experience using this app.

Overall it was a solid experience using this app.

Pros

The systems flows really smooth. Saves time

Cons

Sometimes the dev page slows down my entire laptop

Mark
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  • Industry: Arts & Crafts
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Monthly for 1-5 months
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great Tool

Reviewed on 10/01/2025

Great place for distribution of program code and for collaboration during build process

Great place for distribution of program code and for collaboration during build process

Pros

Great place for code repositories and distribution of programs

Cons

Very technical. Not extremely user friendly

Jashobanta
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  • Industry: Computer Hardware
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Overall a good solid product

Reviewed on 26/08/2024

Overall experience is good. We are using it daily as a source control, for CI-CD, code-review. The...

Overall experience is good. We are using it daily as a source control, for CI-CD, code-review. The UI is smooth and user friendly.

Pros

User friendly interface, easy to use controls. The Visual Studio Code UI for inline editing of files is very helpful in case we want to update code directly in the web-UI without needing to download the code in local, edit in IDE and then push back it to the source control.

Cons

The latest update had moved the profile and sidebar to the left and has not given proper customization options to the user. The old interface of having it customizable was better.

BISWAMITRA
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  • Industry: Computer & Network Security
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 6-12 months
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

GitLab: Next gen Collaboration Tool

Reviewed on 10/11/2023

Overall it is a 8.7 out of 10 experience, considering the average to be 5. It is better than some...

Overall it is a 8.7 out of 10 experience, considering the average to be 5. It is better than some of the platforms in many terms, but till lagging some level of scalebility.

Pros

It offers an all-in-one platform that includes version control, issue tracking, continuous integration, and more.
It excels at managing Git repositories, allowing for easy branching, merging, and version control.
It has robust access control features, allowing administrators to manage user roles, permissions, and project visibility.

Cons

It is resource-intensive, especially for larger projects or organizations.
It is hard to initially learn the tools and technologies.
The UI/UX is less tempting.

Jörg
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  • Industry: Civil Engineering
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

A powerful foundation for any software development need, which is trivially self hosted

Reviewed on 28/08/2023

Despite my gripes with debugging and monitoring, GitLab is a mind blowing software offer with an...

Despite my gripes with debugging and monitoring, GitLab is a mind blowing software offer with an unbelievable feature set for a platform that is effectively free for many setups, not forcing a subscription or pro features by crippling its basic product but by providing additional value for paying customers instead of extorting users for critical features.

Pros

The pipeline system is by far GitLabs most important feature, though the extensive offering of supporting services such as project wikis, hooks and integrations make it a flexible control center for all needs of software development.

Cons

Debugging pipelines seems to be less than an after though, with minimal support and no indication of being in anyone's focus. Monitoring seems like a lackluster proof of concept released to the public, with many issues being ignored for years and all around extremely poor support unless the only thing you want to do is monitor the default setup for the default metrics in the default view.

Alternatives Considered

GitHub and Travis CI

Reasons for Choosing GitLab

Stagnating movement, fragmented development, lack of project oversight/direction, and the wish to unify the different moving parts.

Switched From

GitHub and Apache Subversion

Reasons for Switching to GitLab

Inability to host on premise
Matt
Matt
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  • Industry: Hospitality
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

So easy and enjoyable to use

Reviewed on 26/06/2024

As a fairly non-technical QA person, I have love how easy it is to create pipelines and deploy...

As a fairly non-technical QA person, I have love how easy it is to create pipelines and deploy through environments.

Pros

I like the clean, nice-looking interface and controls. I how it sets up pipelines, displays status of each deployment and allow me to re-run.

Cons

It would be nice to be able to re-start a pipeline rather than having to create a new one, even a duplicate feature to create the same one again.

Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Computer Software
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

CI is outstanding in Gitlab

Reviewed on 16/09/2024

Pros

I am fan of Gitlab CI, it's highly robust and highly reliable.

Cons

No public repository options like Github

Zin Wah Win
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  • Industry: Education Management
  • Company size: 501–1,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

CI/CD Platform

Reviewed on 09/09/2024

For overall experience with GitLab is good. I can create repository for free. But GitLab needs to...

For overall experience with GitLab is good. I can create repository for free. But GitLab needs to update in authentication.

Pros

The most I like about GitLab is Source Code Management and CI/CD.

Cons

The least I like about GitLab is authentication. Authentication in GitLab is not easy to login with Google. Sometimes, I got failed to authenticate from GoogleOauth2.

Hugo
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  • Industry: Research
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

The best open source devops suite and code manager

Reviewed on 30/10/2024

Overall very satisfied! They are on par and often above GitHub.

Overall very satisfied! They are on par and often above GitHub.

Pros

It's open source, they are improving a lot and there are a ton of features for everyone.

Cons

sometimes the UX is just behind GitHub.
Some performance improvement could be great alghough it may depends on our own server.

Hussain
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 201–500 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
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  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Highly flexible and powerful but with a slightly sluggish UI

Reviewed on 23/05/2024

Pros

I like the philosophy of the team that built GitLab and it reflects in the product. It is open, flexible, and powerful. The CI templates make it easy to setup continuous integration on new projects and that is a huge productivity boost.

Cons

The UI feels sluggish sometimes. It just feels that everything takes a fraction of second longer and it adds up overall.

Isam
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  • Industry: Automotive
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

GitLab: Efficient and Collaborative Software Development Platform

Reviewed on 28/09/2023

GitLab is a handy tool for making software. It helps keep track of changes to the project, makes it...

GitLab is a handy tool for making software. It helps keep track of changes to the project, makes it easier to test and fix problems, and even has tools for keeping the project secure. Everything is in one place, so it's easier to organize. Some people might find it a bit tricky at first, but with practice, it becomes more straightforward. Whether for big companies or small groups, GitLab is a useful friend for building software.

Pros

GitLab stands out because it's an all-in-one platform for software development. It covers everything from storing code to testing, security, and teamwork. Developers in my team work together more easily and efficiently. GitLab also supports automation and follows best practices, making it great for speeding up development and ensuring good software quality. It's user-friendly, versatile, and works well for various types of projects.

Cons

One common drawback of GitLab is its relatively steeper learning curve, especially for new users or smaller teams. The platform's extensive feature set can be overwhelming, and the complexity of its interface may require some time to become proficient.

Alternatives Considered

GitHub

Reasons for Switching to GitLab

It is less expensive
Samuel
Samuel
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  • Industry: Internet
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

AI Powered Git Repository

Reviewed on 19/05/2024

Pros

Free plan.
Collaboration.
Ease of setup.

Cons

Have limits in free plan.
No much community support like Github.

Alternatives Considered

GitHub
Verified Reviewer
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  • Industry: Research
  • Company size: 51–200 Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
  • Review Source

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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10

Great way for git-based source code management on the premises

Reviewed on 07/11/2023

I'd say maybe 5+ years ago, this was probably the only real alternative to GitHub that you can host...

I'd say maybe 5+ years ago, this was probably the only real alternative to GitHub that you can host on your own server. This was important for certain projects that had strict privacy restrictions. At that time, occasionally updates may break some parts of the GitHub service causing some down time and requiring a bit IT-debugging efforts. These days this doesn't happen so much. Overall, pretty satisfied.

Pros

Highly customizable and gives a pretty close experience to GitHub but with ability to host the service on your own server.

Cons

Not a lot to dislike except when some updates break things causing down times on your own repositories. This was a few years ago though, it's much better nowadays.

Deepak
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  • Industry: Logistics & Supply Chain
  • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
  • Used Daily for 2+ years
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  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

Best tool for source code repository

Reviewed on 25/03/2024

Pros

Easily manage the versions
Able to create ci/cd pipeline

Cons

Na.

Arjan
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  • Industry: Program Development
  • Company size: 11–50 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Great tool for collaboration and development

Reviewed on 27/08/2024

I am very happy with GitLab it is a great alternative to GitHub

I am very happy with GitLab it is a great alternative to GitHub

Pros

Easy version control, Deployment is simple.

Cons

When working as a team you have to have strict rules to prevent a mess.

Bharath
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  • Industry: Information Technology & Services
  • Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
  • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
  • Customer Support
  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

Managing CI/CD

Reviewed on 25/11/2024

Getting help in devops feature like CI pipeline is a good part. Efficient code reviews and solving...

Getting help in devops feature like CI pipeline is a good part. Efficient code reviews and solving problems are easy.

Pros

1. This product is absolutely helpful to handle code-related issues, and errors and being a part of discussions to work on matters easily.
2. Running and managing CI/CD is super easy.
3. A very user-friendly environment and easy customization options are available.

Cons

1. Little bit complex to start without any prior experience.
2. UI is complex and can be improved.

Aldo
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  • Industry: Information Services
  • Company size: 2–10 Employees
  • Used Daily for 1+ year
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  • Value for Money
  • Ease of Use
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  • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

A great tool too build your products with

Reviewed on 22/11/2024

Pros

It's a great tool for every tech company

Cons

Nothing negative to say. Maybe a bit the pricing.