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

What do you like best about the product?

I like the below features:

1) Reduce cost.

2) Reduce developer time thus increasing productivity.

3) we can see the changes before pushing the change.

4) ui is quite good.

5) approval process can be setup to ensure changes are correct for the purpose of review.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don't think I can dislike any feature right now.

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

I am solving below problems:

1) I am able to save time.

2) productivity is increased.

3) quite simple process to push the development changes.

4) I can see what changes I have made before pushing the changes to branch.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

I would definitely recommend this tool.

What do you like best about the product?

The self-managed version of GitLab lets you control your repository management the way you need. It has so many functionalities that allow your company to customize your repository management securely. I love the kanban integration and especially all the CI/CD that it has. It makes my job much more manageable.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes some of the bugs take longer to fix but is nothing that you can get a workaround for.

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

It's the tool we use to manage all of our repositories at the company. I've been able to streamline the entire process of deploying the applications with its powerful CI/CD integration.

What do you like best about the product?

Useful for git repo, code reviews, CI/CD

What do you dislike about the product?

It works fine for my needs. No complaints.

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

Code Repo, CI/CD, code reviews

What do you like best about the product?

Notification alert, cherry-pick, Generate Merge request and assign to superior, add comments and many more features provided by GitLab.
GitLab is easy to configure with CI/CD pipeline.

What do you dislike about the product?

I have been using GitLab for more than 3 years but till now I could not find any issue with this feature-rich tool.

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

My whole team was able to work on the same feature using GitLab. Also, the peer code review feature allowed us to solve several issues before we integrate with the Master branch. Moreover, we have done security penetration testing using the Application Security Testing tool. We have been using this tool as a primary security validation process because it provides a holistic view of our security profile.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

This tool is an essential component of our security hardening and validation procedures.

What do you like best about the product?

I like the full functionality which is available even for the free plan. Besides the must have code hosting support, you can configure runners and build jobs. Register your own server to build and deploy your product, so for hobby developers and small companies it is the universal solution for the first years.

What do you dislike about the product?

The website for mobile is not optimised at all, so if you get the notification that your build failed, it is hard to check the result from your mobile. It also has a tricky login button location from mobile, so that part what they could put focus on.

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

We are hosting our entire code base on GitLab and also using the CI/CD for building and deploying the application.

What do you like best about the product?

its branching feature, compatibility, opensource, speed, secure

What do you dislike about the product?

it will take some time to get flow into it, sometimes reverting the commit is tedious, commands are little bit tough to remember

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

I work in a concurrent software development team, we use git in parallel code management. we also maintain task, bug in git

What do you like best about the product?

When a project is employee-only it is just best to have it behind a system that only allows access by single sign-on and separate from the main public repository until it is ready to become live or discarded. This means no accidental pushes to the wrong remote branch or mistakenly making it public since it works in a completely different system.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some projects that eventually get canned are actually very good but since its outside of the public eye they just get forgotten and no chance that someone else takes over them and if you are planning to go job hunting since the commits are private that means that no exposure to potential employers.

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

It is our internal tool for managing git projects before they go to GitHub

Recommendations to others considering the product:

The public version of Gitlab is not bad, but there are better options, but the actual system can be mounted separately and work as a private repository for repositories, and that it is actually great in an enterprise.

What do you like best about the product?

For open source it's my second favorite tool after Github, for code in an enterprise it's my favorite tool, for anything that is not highly confidential it's the best tool since it can be easily hosted inside an organization and shared companywide without fear of sharing things that should not be shared or worrying about the platform being hacked by an outside attacker.

What do you dislike about the product?

It is a really nice tool for anything that isn't too important, but for code that is critical for product functionality and protected as a trade secret is not an option, it is flexible and very useful with many features, and a system with a lot of features is harder to fully secure. It is a tradeoff I would love to use this for all our internal code, but the possibility of an internal attacker increases with a tool as open and feature rich as GitLab.

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

All my company code that is not highly confidential goes into GitLab.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

Keep your GitLab implementation besides a company intranet and you'll fend against 90% of the attackers.

What do you like best about the product?

The best thing that I like about GitLab is that it is open source. Moreover it offer unlimited private repositories without limitation of contributors, when compared to GitHub. GitHub offers only 3 contributors to private repositories. It also supports continuous integration, delivery and integration with Jira. It also supports import using Git. It also supports different programming languages.

What do you dislike about the product?

The one thing that I hates most about the GitLab is it's UI. It may be attractive for many of you guys, but I love the GitHub interface rather than GitLab interface.

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

It helped me to keep a centralized repository for my projects. It also helped me and my friends to work on the same project from different places. Since it is open source, I believe it more than anything. GitLab helped me to organize all my projects in a proper manner.

Recommendations to others considering the product:

From my point of view, if your organization is looking for a place where all the repositories can be organized without having any doubt regarding the platform, then you should opt for GitLab. Since it is an open source platform, we can trust it more than anything.