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What do you like best about GitLab?

The built-in features of Auto DevOps have made our experience more rewarding and effective. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

It's still a monolithic application. This is in the process of being fixed, but I'm often worried a failure in one component will take out the entire system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitLab:

If you want a holistic solution with a strategy around devops, then this is the solution you need. It provides a lot of native support for devops collaboration. The company also embodies devops and an open and transparent culture. Their company is 100% remote, and almost all of their internal documentation is published publicly so anyone can search it and submit changes back. This includes all of their HR documentation. I highly value the culture of a company when I'm evaluating doing business with someone, and this company ticks all the boxes for a strong culture fit with my company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

This tool is able to streamline our entire development workflow. This allows us to inject standard security and compliance gates, create an audit trail, reduce our toolset, reduce the overhead of managing multiple disparate tools and their integrations, and produce customer value faster. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

GitLab Overview

What is GitLab?

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-Powered DevSecOps platform that enables software innovation by empowering development, security, and operations teams to build better software, faster. With GitLab, teams can create, deliver, and manage code quickly and continuously instead of managing disparate tools and scripts. GitLab helps your teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software. What makes us truly different? - Flexibility: Consume as a service or manage your own deployment - Cloud-Agnostic: Deploy anywhere with no vendor lock-in - No rip and replace: Scale to a platform approach at your own pace

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An open source web interface and source control platform based on Git.


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GitLab is a complete Comprehensive DevSecOps platform, delivered as a single application, fundamentally changing the way Development, Security, and Ops teams collaborate and build software. From idea to production, GitLab helps teams improve cycle time from weeks to minutes, reduce development costs and time to market while increasing developer productivity.


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5.0 out of 5
"A great repository and ticket tracking management tool all in one place"
The repository can show issues in a Kanban style format making it easier to see tickets linked to MR requests and workflows
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5.0 out of 5
"very useful and easy to use ci/cd pipeline tool"
I like how easy it is to create pipelines with jobs and stages, use of variables and the concept of default runners and also ability to configure c...
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5.0 out of 5
"Best CI/CD enabler"
Gitlab is not just a code repository it can be used as a orchestrator and help with implementing dataops , gitops like architectures.
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Ranjit A.
RA
IMS Devops Engineer
Telecommunications
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about GitLab?

I like how easy it is to create pipelines with jobs and stages, use of variables and the concept of default runners and also ability to configure custom runners. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

The configuration of default runners is unknown - unless we run a particular command like uname Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

Prior to using gitlab, i was building my code on a VM. when the VM went down or the network was down I was stuck. Also space was a constraint on VM with multple users using to store their files and build code.

moving to gitlab and having multiple projects eased this situation.

Also with the concept of branches I could have multiple flavors and options to achieve different functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Trilok Kumar R.
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Senior software engineer
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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Review source: Organic
What do you like best about GitLab?

1. It is a very useful software for code management.

2. We can manage our code of project into gitlab. We can manage our code by creating branch like master, staging, develop, feature and etc.

3. It is a version control software.

4. It is a open source software and easy to implementation. It can be used for DevOps.

5. We can do any integration into gitlab like CI/CD.

6. Many companies are mostly used this software for managing their code and documents as well.

7. This platform is very secure for security and we can track our project. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

1. Sometime we were facing problem like intergration error.

2. There are some command facing issue like merge conflict.

3. We need some public repository on gitlab but unfortunatly it is not present in gitlab. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before using GitLab, we had to manage our code directly on the server. However, this sometimes led to code being accidentally deleted, making recovery very difficult.

With GitLab, we can easily access all our code by using branches and previous commits. This is because GitLab is a version control tool, which is not only reliable but also user-friendly for DevOps teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Mohammad A.
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Head of QA
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about GitLab?

The repository can show issues in a Kanban style format making it easier to see tickets linked to MR requests and workflows Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

Reporting. Unlike something like JIRA, the customisation options for reports are limited. I was trying to export a list of tickets where labels have changed from In QA to In Progress (gone back in the workflow) but the options weren't really there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

There's many things. Mainly bug and ticket/feature tracking via Kanban and labels. We can see MR's linked to tickets and features allowing code or tests to be reviewed . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Rishab S.
RS
Senior Data Engineer
Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about GitLab?

Gitlab is not just a code repository it can be used as a orchestrator and help with implementing dataops , gitops like architectures. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

Nothing as such , May be more powerful and cloud based runner availability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have implemented dataops methodology using gitlab as a base and integrated all the tools around it Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Harsh V.
HV
Co-Founder
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about GitLab?

CI/CD implementation with gitlab runners is really good.

Different types of runners is such a feasible option to integrate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

Sometimes the gitlab runners is not able to schedule a job for longer durations and it's quiet frustrating. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

It solves our CI/CD infrastructure by not relying on platform runners and we can do it complete in-house. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Computer & Network Security
UC
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about GitLab?

There are so many things which i like best about gitlb. It offers tools for software development as well as version control. It's continuous integration and continous deployment is of top notch. Very helpful for managing projects . Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

For beginners it's UI feels complex and cluttered. And it's premium features are costly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

Gitlab solves a major problem i.e time consumption. Because being a platorm having multiple functionality, an individual doesn't have to use seperate tools for CI/CD, version control and project management . For myself it will be easier for me to track progress and manage task efficiently. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about GitLab?

One of the things I love most about GitLab is how it brings everything together under one roof. You've got your version control, CI/CD pipelines, linters, code review (50% of the time is devoted to reviewing MRs), issue tracking – almost everything required it's there. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

First of all, I am as a User frustated with searching capabilities of GitLab. For instance, when I am searching for snippet of code across tens of projects, it can't provide easy yet effective searching mechanism. Also, there is a bit of learning curve in terms of user interface, so it might be an obstacle for newcomers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

Majority of my work time is devoted to code review, therefore it's paramount to have a platform to review the MRs in easy and accessable way for me, especially when code changes affecting several classes/items. With GitLab, it's super easy to request reviews, leave comments, and collaborate with your teammates. GitLab's CI/CD pipelines are also one of the benefits of using GitLab - you just push your code to your branch, and everything else is automated (except for the bugs - this is on your side). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Myat Noe Aung .
M
Flutter Developer
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Verified Current User
Review source: Organic
What do you like best about GitLab?

GitLab Community Edition is open-source, which means its source code is freely available to the public.

Despite being the free version, GitLab Community Edition offers a wide range of features for source code management, issue tracking, continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD), and more.

GitLab Community Edition integrates seamlessly with various third-party tools and services, enhancing its functionality and adaptability to different development workflows.

While GitLab Community Edition is suitable for small to medium-sized teams, it also scales well to larger organizations. This scalability ensures that teams can continue using GitLab as their projects grow in complexity and scope. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

Gitlab community edition is need to self-hosted server.

It server is needed for minium 4Gb memory and expensive disk space ,as for me , it is not pleasure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

Streamlined Collaboration helps teams work together more efficiently, share code, review changes, and coordinate tasks seamlessly.

Efficient Version Control with GitLab's version control system.

Automated Workflows with gitlab's ci/cd. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Pintraj K.
PK
Devops / Infosec
Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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Review source: G2 invite
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What do you like best about GitLab?

We not need to install any addition Pipeline softwear like jenkins , ansible the git lab will take care of pipeline and deployment with it yaml file Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

The computer minutes

it will take the small linux machine to deploy where the compute minutes will consume more Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

with gitlab you can build the pipeline by default even though it has some compute minutes limitation, but it was useful for the freshers and startup business Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Higher Education
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What do you like best about GitLab?

Its collabration feature is best. Git is a distributed source-control version controlling system which allows multiple people to collaborate at same time. GitLab can be installed in any private setup easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about GitLab?

Its much more than basic git, hence can consume a good amount of storage easily. Basic git is the simplest. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering GitLab:

Its a great product, please use it!! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is GitLab solving and how is that benefiting you?

Git is a distributed source-control version controlling system which allows multiple people to collaborate at same time. GitLab can be installed in any private setup easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.