GitLab Ultimate

What do you like best about the product?

GitLab brings everything into one platform. I can manage code, track issues, create pipelines, and review merge requests without switching tools. The built-in CI-CD is a big advantage as it saves time and makes the whole process smoother.

What do you dislike about the product?

I believe it has a bit of a learning curve. The interface has a lot of features, so it takes time to get used to where everything is.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Helps me keep code, issues, and pipelines all in one place. It makes it easier to review code with teammates, track bugs, and move features from start to finish without losing context. This saves time and makes teamwork more organized.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that GitLab brings everything into one platform—version control, CI/CD pipelines, issue tracking, and code review. It makes collaboration between developers, QA, and project managers very smooth.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some of the advanced features can feel overwhelming at first, and the learning curve is a bit steep for new users.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

managing the entire software development lifecycle in one platform, repository hosting and code reviews to automated testing, deployment, and project management.

To store the data.

Git  merging allows us to track the details of how and who has done what. This is the best feature which is useful for all companies.

As we are using it in Kubernetes  clusters, we don't have any issues.

GitLab  needs to improve the CI/CD functionality because it is not compatible with Jenkins  and other tools, as it is not that efficient. Security-wise, we have security features enabled in GitLab  for code vulnerability and other aspects, but it is not up to market standards.

Approximately four to five years.

Recently we had an issue where an employee left the company and their commits were erased. We raised a request with GitLab support, but they were unable to help because they could not find the root cause of what went wrong. We restored the data from previous backups.

GitLab is suitable for small and mid-size organizations, but not for enterprise use.

We raised a request with GitLab support when an employee's commits were erased, but they were unable to help because they could not find the root cause of what went wrong.

Positive

I worked with GitLab Enterprise at a previous company. GitLab Enterprise is far better than the free version. For enterprise-level customers, we can recommend GitLab Enterprise. Regarding competitors, we have explored GitHub , Bitbucket , and CircleCI . However, GitLab Enterprise has more features than any of these tools.

I am working with Kyndryl , which is part of IBM. They have their own decision-making team who manages these aspects.

We are currently using general GitLab, not GitLab Premium .

We are using Jira  and Confluence , but not Bitbucket .

We are currently using GitLab integrated with Sonar  for code vulnerability checks, Jenkins , Camunda , and XL Deploy. We use Camunda  to deploy folders and XL Deploy for server deployment.

We are not using the security features on the GitLab side, as we use different tools for that purpose. My team is not using the GitLab merge request process, but we work on providing GitLab access for admin activities, as developers are in different teams handling development and merge requests.

We are using basic features currently, so I cannot comment on detailed functionality comparisons. Every  versioning control tool provides similar basic features, and we are not utilizing the full functionality of GitLab.

The system is easy to use.

On a scale of 1-10, this solution rates a 7.

Public Cloud

Google

What do you like best about the product?

The seamless integration of version controll, CI/CD pipilines and project management in a single platform.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some features feel heavy on resources and the UI can be slow at times.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

it streamlines code collaboratino, automates deployments, and improves team productivity by keeping everything in one place.

What do you like best about the product?

Built-in container registry stores our test Docker images versioned alongside code.
Code review tools with inline test coverage indicators show exactly which paths lack testing.
The GitLab Runner autoscaling on Kubernetes spins up hundreds of test executors during regression runs, then scales down to save costs.
The unified DevOps platform eliminates tool sprawl such as version control, CI/CD, test reporting, and deployment all in one interface.

What do you dislike about the product?

The pipeline YAML syntax is unnecessarily complex; simple parallel test configurations require nested includes and anchors that break mysteriously.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

GitLab unified our fragmented toolchain - replacing Jenkins, GitHub, Docker Hub, and Artifactory with one platform reduced context switching and eliminated integration maintenance. Built-in security scanning in CI/CD identified critical vulnerabilities our separate tools missed. Auto DevOps provisions ephemeral test environments per branch, enabling true parallel testing without environment conflicts.