GitLab Credits

What do you like best about the product?

It’s a very good DevOps platform tool. We can maintain and deploy code easily, and it automatically builds, tests, and deploys. It also has very strong security and provides complete SDLC coverage.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don’t have any dislikes to mention; overall, the tool is very good.

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

With a single platform, we can manage code, CI/CD, security, and project activities. The built-in CI/CD pipelines automate much of the workflow. It also provides merge requests, issue tracking, and better collaboration across the team.

What do you like best about the product?

The new AI features, especially the autocomplete for VSCode really blend well with other AI tools and really speed up the development. The UI is neat, I love the ability to check the reviewed file and the fact that it will uncheck when a change is pushed. We've built custom integration for Gitlab, the API and the documentation really make this platform a powerful, customizable tool to achieve all of our complex needs. For the price, it is hard to go elsewhere.

What do you dislike about the product?

Sometimes the UI is buggy and the data is not refreshed correctly, I have to manually refresh the page.

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

It helps organize our monorepo, keep a clean history of the code, write code review and plug in QA envs and CI/CD

What do you like best about the product?

The biggest upside is having a single, unified interface that covers the entire project lifecycle. Being able to move from issue tracking straight into repository management, and then directly into CI/CD pipelines without ever leaving the application, really reduces friction. It also drastically simplifies toolchain complexity and centralizes visibility, which is especially helpful in large environments.

What do you dislike about the product?

The pricing model can be a drawback, since many advanced enterprise features like deep security scanning, vulnerability management, and certain compliance controls are locked behind the highest-priced tiers. As a result, scaling full DevSecOps practices across a team or organization can become expensive.

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

GitLab addresses the challenges of decentralized infrastructure management. We moved from manually tracking scripts to a fully version-controlled CI/CD pipeline. With this unified approach, deployment times for server configurations have dropped significantly, and every change is clearly documented, tested, and kept secure.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about GitLab is how it brings the entire DevOps workflow into one platform. From source code management and branching to CI/CD pipelines and issue tracking, everything is centralized, which makes collaboration much easier. I especially find the built-in CI/CD pipelines very useful because they automate testing and deployments directly from the repository, reducing manual effort and speeding up delivery. The merge request workflow also helps with better code review and team collaboration.

What do you dislike about the product?

What I dislike about GitLab is that it can feel a bit complex at times, especially when setting up CI/CD pipelines or managing advanced configurations. The flexibility is great, but it also means there’s a learning curve before everything works smoothly. I also find that the interface can feel slightly heavy or cluttered when working across multiple projects, which sometimes slows down navigation.

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

GitLab solves the problem of fragmented development workflows by bringing source control, CI/CD, issue tracking, and collaboration into a single platform. This benefits me because I don’t need to switch between multiple tools to manage the full development lifecycle. I can handle code reviews, automate builds and deployments, and track issues in one place, which improves efficiency and reduces context switching. It also makes collaboration smoother since the entire team works within the same system.

What do you like best about the product?

Irs one place where you can store your git repositories, while also having CICD

What do you dislike about the product?

I am satisfied with most of the features i currently use

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

It solves a business continuity problem and helps automate pipelines easily

What do you like best about the product?

The best thing I like about GitLab is that it provides an all-in-one DevOps platform where I can manage code, CI/CD pipelines, issue changes, code reviews, and security scanning. GitLab also helps me push code from my local environment to staging and production. It supports different stages, such as build, our company environment stage, and production, and it improves security by scanning the code.

What do you dislike about the product?

I don’t have any major dislikes about GitLab; it’s a good product overall.

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

GitLab solves problems related to software development collaboration, code management, CI/CD automation, and deploying code to different stages more easily. For me, it addresses the difficulty of managing code across different teams and keeping everyone aligned. Overall, GitLab helps solve the major challenge of organizing development work in one place and making the process smoother from code changes through deployment, which benefits me by reducing confusion and improving coordination.

What do you like best about the product?

I like that GitLab is easy to use and has a more flowy UI that's not cluttered with unnecessary features. I also appreciate using GitLab to check code diffs, deployment status, and receiving alerts about failed or successful deployments, as well as viewing deployment logs. Additionally, the initial setup of GitLab was easy enough, especially since the setup portion was documented.

What do you dislike about the product?

It's hard to switch between organizations. Repository search can be a little chaotic sometimes and the entire codebase search even more so. Better filters there would make it streamlined. When searching for a function or string, it would be helpful to specify the parent function, the return type of the function containing that string, or the parameter signature of the parent function.

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

I use GitLab for running automated CI/CD pipelines and providing a shared repository space for code collaboration.

What do you like best about the product?

Gitlab has got a user friendly interface which makes our tasks easier, they provide instructions to work with our code easing the task of pushing and pulling into repos, further they offer wide range of APIs which help us in the integration with various softwares for example recently I have developed a fastApi application to integrate gitlab with basecamp and these APIs got very beneficial

What do you dislike about the product?

There’s only one thing that really needs to be fixed: each individual project has its own webhooks option. I think it would be better if there were a parent project, under which all the sub-projects could sit, so that webhooks could be managed in one place.

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

This platform provides a safe container to store our codes under the safe repos, they offer indication with titles which help in identifying the version of code and makes our work easier, further the integration part using APIs is very smooth and offer wide uses.

What do you like best about the product?

Gitlab is a platform for managing code and version control. All the CICD pipelines are in one place. I use it regularly for pushing code, tracking changes, and also managing branches. The built in feature of it makes deployment really easy.

What do you dislike about the product?

The interface is sometimes complex for new users, mainly while working with advanced settings. If the logs are not very clear, pipeline debugging may take a little more time.

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

The main thing that GitLab benefits me is combining code management and the automation in a single platform. This really reduces manual effort and makes deployments easier.

What do you like best about the product?

I really value the ability to self-host a fully capable code repository and CI/CD environment.

What do you dislike about the product?

Hosting GitLab requires a lot of resources compared to some other solutions (which makes sense given its feature set)

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

GitLab allows me to own my data, locally, on my own servers. For me, it works as a complete GitHub replacement. I don't have to worry about the platform immediately changing or breaking; I can control that by only performing GitLab upgrades as I see fit.
GitLab also saves me money - I run it on server hardware I already had.