About GitLab
GitLab is an integrated, open source DevOps lifecycle management platform for software development teams to plan, code, test, deploy and monitor product changes within a single application. GitLab allows users to streamline their collaborative workflows and visualize, prioritize, coordinate, and track progress using flexible project management tools.
GitLab helps streamline collaborative workflows whether a team uses Agile, Waterfall, or conversational development methods. Users are able to securely write and manage code and project data, and consolidate source code into a single DVCS that can be managed without disrupting the workflow. GitLab’s git repositories are provided with branching tools and access controls for a scalable, single source of truth for collaboration on projects and code.
Users are able to customize their approval workflow controls, and automatically test the quality of code. GitLab verification tools help users spot errors sooner while shortening feedback cycles with features such as built-in code review, code testing, code quality, and review apps. Users can manage custom container images with GitLab’s container registry, which provides users with enhanced security and access controls without third party add-ons.
Organizations can minimize complexity by building, testing, and releasing their code securely, whether deploying to one server, or thousands, using GitLab’s continuous delivery and deployment feature. Users can automate the entire workflow and customize everything from buildpacks to CI/CD. Best practice templates help users get started with minimal configuration. GitLab collects and displays performance metrics for deployed apps using Prometheus, allowing users to analyze shipping velocity and monitor application performance.
Pricing starting from:
US$29.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
Key benefits of GitLab
Typical Customers
- Freelancers
- Small Businesses (2-50)
- Mid-size Companies (51-500)
- Large enterprises (500 and more)
Deployment
- Cloud-based
- On-premise
Supported Languages
Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese
Pricing starting from:
US$29.00/month
- Free Version
- Free Trial
- Subscription
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Features
Total features of GitLab: 62
Alternatives
Google Drive
Phabricator
Redmine
Teamwork
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- Industry: Retail
- Company size: 1,001–5,000 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Overall rating
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10
GitLab is a must for development teams
Reviewed on 10/07/2020
Pros
I love the Boards for tracking Issues in their life cycle. Customizable Columns and Labels make it quick and easy to see where an Issue is, giving a high level for management and the rest of the team, while having all the details and attached code branches and merge requests for the developer and stakeholders. I love how it's able to connect code from several projects to Issues, no matter where they live, so you can have as many boards and projects as you like! It's well put together and seems natural with everything I try to do organization-wise. Integrates really well with developers' workflows.
Cons
GitLab is always improving and enables you to request features, so if you want something, suggest it and they'll get to it! Sometimes that's a bit slow, but you can usually work around it.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily 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 Review
Reviewed on 26/09/2019
GitLab resolved our version controlling problems, code review problems. It helps to maintain our...
GitLab resolved our version controlling problems, code review problems. It helps to maintain our code standards very easily. We can setup It on our local server also very easily. It is free anyone can try it.
Pros
GitLab is a superb source code managemanet provide. It is free. We can install it in our privet server also. As well as we can use their server with a free account. We use git for version control. GitLab provides awesome support for version control. It is a very easy tool. Anyone can use it very easily If someone has no more knowledge about versioning but He can use GitLab very easy. We can maintain our Repositories/Branchers. User access level also there. Currently, We use GitLab. We maintain feature branches, dev branch, and master branch. Everyone does not allow to merge code to the dev branch. If someone add merge request to the dev branch, our one-person review code and merge. Then we use GitLab it is easy for us. GitLab provides superb dashboard it very easy to review code. It shows all code changes with file by file. Easy to compare. As well as we can compare two branches vary easy. It provides a clear, unique, user-friendly dashboard. GitLab also supports CI/CD process. It's superb we can recommend for anyone. If our commit has some conflict it shows how to resolve that step by step.
Cons
When I add a new commit. If the file is large/have many lines. It not showing code changes directly. It shows a message file has many lines cannot show changes that kind of message. Sometimes when we compare two commits. It not more clear. Some times confusing. If I show some file history only show commits. not showing code changes by commits. We want to go and check every commits to show changes.
Reasons for Switching to GitLab
It's free. We can setup on our local servers. It provides an easy, powerful, clear, and userfriendly dashboard. Its same thing wants for version control. Its there on GitLab.- Industry: Computer & Network Security
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1+ year
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Overall rating
- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
GitLab, the one stop for development
Reviewed on 08/09/2023
Pros
Intigration of source control, documentation, and ticketing
Cons
Wish there was more options for on-prem installation
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 11–50 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Likelihood to recommend 8.0 /10
Source control is made easy with gitlab
Reviewed on 22/10/2019
We need to control our source code. We need to know exactly who has changed what line of code at...
We need to control our source code. We need to know exactly who has changed what line of code at what point. And git, nice though it is, needs a GUI. Gitlab provides us that GUI.
Pros
The software is stable.
Updates come out regularly.
SSO integration with our AD is very nice.
Cons
We are using gitlab not only for our source code, but also to control the configuration of all of our servers and firewalls. It would be nice if we could schedule scripts on gitlab to run automatically. We are now 'abusing' the pipelines for this purpose.
Alternatives Considered
Helix CoreReasons for Choosing GitLab
It's quite unfair to compare gitlab to visualSVN. Gitlab is an integrated issue tracker and source code management system.Reasons for Switching to GitLab
The staff just wanted to use git and gitlab. We did not want to host in GitHub since we want to be in control of our own data.- Industry: Airlines/Aviation
- Company size: 201–500 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Value for Money
- Ease of Use
- Customer Support
- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
GitLab- Great product for DevOps Lifecycle
Reviewed on 11/07/2023
Overall it’s a better option than Github for continuous integration.
Overall it’s a better option than Github for continuous integration.
Pros
GitLab would be a great choice for people working in private projects for self- hosted repositories when compared to other product like Github . Also good for tracking issues throughout the CI/CD pipelines.
Cons
Speed is less when compared to Github when pushing or pulling source codes. Also the cost is more when compared to the other products.
GitLab FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for GitLab.Q. What type of pricing plans does GitLab offer?
GitLab offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$29.00/month View Pricing Plans
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Libre: $0 Premium: $29 per user, per month (billed annually) Ultimate: $99 per user, per month (billed annually)
Q. Who are the typical users of GitLab?
GitLab has the following typical customers:
2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000
Q. What languages does GitLab support?
GitLab supports the following languages:
Chinese, English, French, German, Japanese
Q. Does GitLab support mobile devices?
GitLab supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does GitLab integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations GitLab has
Q. What level of support does GitLab offer?
GitLab offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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