GitLab

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GitLab

What is GitLab?

GitLab DevSecOps platform enables software innovation by aiming to empower 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 teams across the complete DevSecOps lifecycle, from developing, securing, and deploying software.

Differentiators, as described by Gitlab:

Simplicity: With GitLab, DevSecOps can be achieved through a single platform with a user-friendly interface
Security: GitLab offers built-in security scans that provides a comprehensive security solution.
Transparency: The code base for GitLab is open to community contributions, to ensure transparency and an open-core approach.
Cloud-Agnostic: Can be deployed anywhere with no vendor lock-in

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Fedor Tyurin View profile

CTO (Chief Technical Officer) in Engineering at Enable Banking (11-50 employees employees)

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

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

Other Software Used

Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Google Cloud Platform

Marco Urrea View profile

DevOps Engineer in Information Technology at DigitalOnUs (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

It addresses repository and CI/CD pipelines and allows you to use your own agents. Because of all its integrations, it’s very good for managing an organization with different projects. It also has great features for controlling an organization, and it has security features like MFA and a built-in key vault. It can be integrated with other products like Vault and Terraform.

Pros

Repository management.
CI/CD pipelines.
Organization and team management.
Integration with other tools.

Cons

UI can improve.

Return on Investment

It was great for product collaboration.
Very easy to use.
Loved the pipelines.
I loved the integration potential.

Alternatives Considered

GitHub, Bitbucket, Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines

Other Software Used

HashiCorp Vault, HashiCorp Terraform

Usability

Alberto López del Toro View profile

Staff Software Engineer in Engineering at Ocado Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

GitLab is our CI/CD platform of choice, which we use to manage our code, product builds and deployments in an automated way. It's very powerful and it allows us to define custom pipelines in YAML files that we can put under version control in the platform itself. It supports every Git functionality that any company, big or small, would need to store code, environment variables, review merge requests, resolve merge conflicts and handle merges from multiple users. In summary, it's a very powerful all-in-one platform.

Pros

Define CI/CD pipelines as code
Store your code
Allow merge request reviews
Store secrets as environment variables

Cons

The free version was a bit slow

Return on Investment

Deliver functionality to clients faster
Makes it easier to deploy fixes and rollback to previous versions
Enables collaboration between engineers in code reviews

Alternatives Considered

GitHub, Atlassian Bitbucket, TeamCity and Jenkins

Other Software Used

IntelliJ IDEA, PostgreSQL, Gradle Build Tool (Open Source), DBeaver

Pankaj Choudhary View profile

Freelancer Android Developer in Engineering at Freelancer (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

My organization is using git for the source code management like pull, push, merge request and changes history. We are also using GitLab to track the issues and resolutions. Its also provide some linking with the other issues tracking tools like MantisBt, Jira, Trello etc. It has options to connect with jenkin and other build creation tools, That helps allot at the time of QA and UAT.

Pros

Source code management
Issues tracking and linking with commits
Intigration with build creation tools and deveopes
Proper documentation of the features and operations

Cons

Some time its taking time in loading
Can improve the UI part
Graph view of commits is littlebit confusing in case of number of branches, It can be little bit improve

Return on Investment

Its impact positively on our business because before using the gitlab we did some harmfull codes live without review. But now we are reviewing our codes with the help of GitLab.
Issues are resolving in the proper time period.
Productivity increased becasue of the proper development steps.

Alternatives Considered

GitHub and Bitbucket

Other Software Used

Atlassian Confluence, Issue History for Jira, Darwinbox

Verified User

Engineer in Information Technology (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a budding software developer, I am part of many teams to learn different software flows and delivery parameters. I came across GitLab through one of my colleague, who works with C# plugins and was facing issues with standardizing delivery parameters for executables. He was able to integrate CI/CD pipelines very conveniently using GitLab.