We are not using the community version of GitLab, but we are using it for ticketing and publishing the tool versioning.
GitLab Ultimate
GitLabExternal reviews
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Efficient version tracking saves time and money while leaving room for potential improvements
What is our primary use case?
What is most valuable?
The best features of GitLab are versioning and keeping track of the versions.
GitLab helps me save time and provide financial benefits, as keeping track of the updated version and the changes is money and time-saving.
GitLab has CI/CD pipeline capabilities.
What needs improvement?
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with GitLab for probably six to seven years.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I am satisfied with GitLab's security, and we have not experienced any problems so far.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Regarding scalability, I did not face any issues with GitLab supporting my projects.
How are customer service and support?
I have not contacted GitLab's technical support.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Neutral
What was our ROI?
I have seen benefits from using GitLab, since my directors and the team are using it, they must be happy with it.
What other advice do I have?
I rate GitLab seven out of ten because nothing is perfect. I think we have to finish the conversation. I have told you what I could tell you.
As a DevOps Engineer for personal project gitlab is easy to use and has a smooth deployment process.
All in one DevOps Platform with Powerful CI/CD
The interface is clean and user-friendly, and managing repositories, merge requests, and issues is very straightforward. The built-in CI/CD is one of GitLab's strongest features — it's easy to configure and works reliably in most cases.
That said, there are moments when pipeline performance slows down, especially under heavy load, but it's nothing deal-breaking. Also, for beginners, the platform might feel a bit overwhelming at first due to the wide range of features.
1. It is difficult to learn for new users
2. Occasional performance slowdowns
My Gitlab Review
Project management integration and development simplicity drive efficiency
What is our primary use case?
My most common use cases for GitLab are development and managing repositories, primarily focused on code development work.
What is most valuable?
The features that are really useful for my use case generally include pulling, merging, and ensuring the pipeline is upright, which are very intuitive.
It helped me personally and my team to save time and money.
In terms of impact from using GitLab as an all-in-one DevOps platform, it helped with my project development life cycle.
What needs improvement?
Regarding improvements, making task management is something that GitLab can potentially make easier, similar to what DevOps or Jira does.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been working with GitLab for about two years.
What was my experience with deployment of the solution?
The deployment and initial setup were not difficult for me to complete. The pipeline management was easy.
The setup process took less than an hour.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
In terms of project management overall, I haven't faced any issues such as downtimes or losing the repository.
How are customer service and support?
I haven't contacted technical support of GitLab.
How would you rate customer service and support?
Which other solutions did I evaluate?
When comparing GitLab with GitHub, I haven't really seen any noticeable difference.
What other advice do I have?
I have worked with Azure DevOps before and found it really intuitive to use.
I have used GitHub and GitLab as well, and I find that they've been fairly intuitive to use.
Regarding GitLab, I purchased an enterprise license, though I'm not aware whether I or my company bought this license from AWS Marketplace or elsewhere.
I'm not aware of any integration with other tools or third-party applications.
I haven't faced any difficulties with user interface or deployment.
On a scale of 1-10, I rate GitLab an 8.
Gitlab- Best in class tool for source control and CI/CD
GitLab provides container registries, dependency proxy to pull container images, manages the Kubernetes environments etc.
The implementation of GitLab self-hosted runners is also very easy, and GitLab has enough documentation for the setup.
The integration of GitLab is pretty simple.
I am using GitLab daily for day-to-day operations.
We are creating GitLab repositories/projects using Terraform and that explains the amazing documentation of GitLab Terraform provider.
The next thing that GitLab is helping us is the CI/CD. GitLab has the abillity to create downstream pipelines that helps us in managing deployment pipelines for various environments originating from a single CI pipeline.
The GitLab Admin POV: One Tool to Rule Them All?
Enforce DevOps policies at scale utilizing the group-level CI templates, compliance pipelines, and audit logs.
Improve security position with built-in code scanning and DAST/SAST capabilities — all automated within the Gitlab pipeline.