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GitLab | GitLab CE 17.2.1 Release

Linux/Unix, Ubuntu 20.04 - 64-bit Amazon Machine Image (AMI)

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    Consumer Electronics

Gitlab for embedded development and CI

  • August 11, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Powerful web functions, continuous integration with the Gitlab runner. Very stable system once is written exclusively in c. Reviews and merge requests can be easily done even for remote teams.
What do you dislike about the product?
Sometimes is very tricky to undo things.
There is no posiblility to comment a random line of code for review.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Development and building and automatically testing the software using cmake, unit tests, and pyunit integration tests.
Software review using merge requests.
Automatic releasing of the software.


    Esha V.

Git lab review

  • August 10, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Git lab provides the repository where data can be stored by multiple users and can be used by multiple users with all the updated changes in the data.
What do you dislike about the product?
Their is one functionality in git lab to merge the data. Everytime you push the things you need to merge the data with the previous changed data that is already present there. If you don't perform this step all the updated files will not be present with you.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It's helps large number of people to provide updated data just by pushing the changes and other user can take those updated changes just by a single pull.


    Kevin O.

It's a complete DevOps Platform.

  • July 25, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Its my favourite DevOps life cycle application with integration of application security testing.
It allows my company to make step ahead that is needed for assurance of every application atleast bare minimum security.
What do you dislike about the product?
So ffar so good,i have no dislike. I appreciate the existence of intuitive customer service.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
GitLab performance a comprehensive security audit of application code.
The dashboards-reports and real-time alerts to predict and eliminate delays,enable Visibility Activity of cycle-time,deployment frequency.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Consider Gitlab for its experience and existing security features are on another level.


    Faisal I.

The best SCM tool used ever

  • July 23, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
The bestest thing i liked in gitlab is their CI/CD pipeline functionality. It have my life easier in creating CI/CD pipeline for deployment on firebase and other platforms as respected. Other than that all of tools available in gitlab which differs from other scm tools are also up to the point sich as webhooks for triggering pipelines of jenkins is also the best thing i tested and worked on in gitlab.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing find anything to dislike. One thing can make it more better is that you have to go premium if you want to give specific person permission to push or merge code.if they allow free users also that would be great for all gitlab users.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I completed my task which was assigned to me to create pipelines for firebase for deployment whenever developer pushes the code this was my first experience with gitlab. And from then i just loved using gitlab for day to day tasks.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
If you want to create pipelines free and dont want to use any Public cloud vm for ci/cd then gitlab is what you need.


    Chelsea B.

Easy to use repos and wikis

  • July 20, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
GitLab makes user management easy when it comes to groups and projects. RBAC can get confusing, but the grants GitLab uses are clear and simple. I also like how easy it is to add a wiki to any project.
What do you dislike about the product?
I've noticed some bugginess when I pull repos down to my local machine and then push changes I've committed locally.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I manage data warehouse, data visualization, and data science teams. All my teams use GitLab is slightly different ways, but mainly we use GitLab as a code repository and version control system. My organization has a site license for GitLab, so anyone at the organization can be added to the projects or groups they need to see.


    Şükrü O.

GitLab Review

  • July 16, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Gitlab offers repository management and version control, as well as hosting and bug tracking for wikis. It's a complete package for building and managing projects of all types because projects beyond source code, like GitHub, are currently hosted.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is GitLab's prominence is primarily web-based DevOps processes. Code review and remote management features are important to us. But GitLab is not at the forefront in this respect.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It allows me to keep my codes private or open remote servers for free using Git technology. It also provides the opportunity to review other projects on the platform.


    Primary/Secondary Education

Easy to use and great for multiple collaborators, especially at the same time. Very dynamic.

  • July 14, 2021
  • Review provided by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Really straightforward and practically no learning curve.
What do you dislike about the product?
No complaints here! I was able to access my work and see comments and progress from others.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Quick resolution to issues raised in a smooth collaborative environment
Recommendations to others considering the product:
Definitely has worked well for me as a user and contractor. It wasn't a lot of learning for me on the backend before I could do my work, which was really great especially working on a tight deadline.


    Brandon S.

A Fully Featured Development Application

  • July 08, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
GitLab has it all. Across the spectrum of DevOps, from source control to issue tracking/planning to CI/CD and more. The sheer amount of functionality they offer is unmatched by any other application.

Another thing that GitLab does very well is consistently adding and improve features. They release once a month on the 22nd, and I am constantly impressed by how much they accomplish in a single month. It takes me 30+ minutes to read their release notes each month which is pretty impressive.
What do you dislike about the product?
There isn't anything that I'm not too fond of that is the fault of GitLab directly. When it comes to third-party integrations and support, like with Jira, Visual Studio, AWS, and other development applications, GitLab isn't as widely supported as GitHub. Again, not their fault, but I do often wish it was supported as widely as GitLab.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Source code management and CI/CD. GitLab allowed us to streamline and automate our development workflow.


    Computer Software

Gitlab is such an essential tool for us that every employee, not just engineers, work with it daily

  • July 05, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
We've been using Gitlab CE for ~5 years. I initially chose to migrate to GitLab from GitHub because of its, then unique, offering of built-in CI/CD functionality with the ability to use one's own servers as runners which was much more flexible and cost-effective compared to other alternatives. Since then, Gitlab has evolved, each month bringing new functionalities and improvements.

Initially, it was mainly used by our engineers/developers writing code, with a couple of other people using GitLab's issue tracker. All engineers/developers loved it immediately, with its unified simple interface to manage git repos, issue trackers, and CI/CD pipelines.

Sysops was the next logical step. By moving shell scripts, ansible/chef/puppet, docker files, helm charts etc to GitLab and authoring pipelines for their build, execution, and deployment, management of our entire infrastructure was now documented, automated and revision-controlled.

At pretty much the same time, our company was struggling with what, at first glance, seemed like a completely unrelated issue: We had to maintain and constantly update extensive official documentation, like Software Product Technical Files, our Quality Management System, internal procedures, and a plethora of other documents. These are essentially very large, mostly-text, files or collections of files that need to be version-controlled while any changes to them need to be reviewed and approved under strict policies. And effectivily managing them in Google Docs was quickly becoming untenable. It was then that, being a software company, we noticed the similarities between the requirements of handling such documentation and handling software code. We ported all these documents to GitLab, organized in a few projects containing several markdown files. Git provides us with a clear audit log of all changes. All employees use Gitlab's Merge Requests and its integrated simple editor or web IDE to propose changes to these documents. Changes can be discussed by everyone and merged/approved by authorized personnel. Automated CI/CD pipelines build the documentation files in PDFs and websites deployed via GitLab Pages.

We now also create GitLab Projects for several work projects, even if there's no coding required. They may contain issue trackers or wikis and help to organize, gather and share information. And this way, GitLab is now our most essential tool, used daily by every member of our team.

And please note the fact that all this is by using the free and open-source edition of GitLab, not its more feature-rich paid edition.
What do you dislike about the product?
There's honestly nothing I dislike about GitLab, I'm very happy with it. A dark them was a long-standing request of mine, but it has now been taken care of.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Software development, project management, documentation management, single tool used by the entire company


    Farhan A.

I have more than 3 years of years of experience using GitLab

  • June 27, 2021
  • Review verified by G2

What do you like best about the product?
Integration with all primary IDE like PDSOE (Progress Developer Studio) and IntelliJ. Cloued based UI supporting Git for version control. As a developer my code always will be safe. Less code conflicts since it allowed local checkout and multiple developer can work simultaneously in one program file. It supports both large-size projects and small-size projects.
What do you dislike about the product?
It is vibrant in functionality, so tricky to understand. Help documentation can be improved. Integration with other tools is a bit complex. Member permission implementation can be better.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Version controlling for our project. Cherry-picking is very easy using a web-based application.
Recommendations to others considering the product:
It is best tool availbale in market for version control and project monitoring.