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Easy and Fun
What do you like best about the product?
There are many useful features, such as Milestones, Groups, Workspaces, and 2Do-s, among others. I also appreciate the user interface. All the members of our small team were able to handle the implementation easily. While working on a side project, we used it frequently, and it never felt disruptive or annoying—which is something we really appreciate.
What do you dislike about the product?
Actually we used GitLab for small team and all was perfect - so we didn't faced with difficulties or something to dislike.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
GitLab provided our team with a seamless environment to spark ideas, begin coding, deploy, and test, all while quickly receiving clear results for our MVP. During this fast-paced and hectic period, using GitLab made the entire process feel smooth and efficient.
GitLab review by Jannatul
What do you like best about the product?
GitLab CI/CD is seamlessly integrated and not an afterthought. Its flexibility allows for YAML-based pipeline configurations, making it adaptable to a variety of workflows. This results in fast, customizable pipelines that are effective for tasks ranging from simple builds to complex, multi-stage deployments.
What do you dislike about the product?
The sheer number of features and options can feel overwhelming, particularly for teams that are new to GitLab or DevOps. Additionally, GitLab offers limited built-in granularity when it comes to permission settings, especially in comparison to tools like GitHub Enterprise or Bitbucket.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
GitLab manages both our infrastructure and application deployments efficiently, with built-in security checks ensuring everything runs smoothly. We have also been able to integrate it seamlessly with various cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Very Efficient and Structured Solution for the whole Workflow from Management to Deployment
What do you like best about the product?
It started out with a very minimalistic approach, but over time, they have consistently enhanced their features and addressed bugs with better support for customer satisfaction. The platform is now easier to use and less complicated. It also integrates with all the popular mailing, communication, collaboration, and alerting applications. We use it for all our work tracking and releasing. Very easy to implement and build upon.
What do you dislike about the product?
Still has less features compared to peers. But it has everything we really need.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It can be integrated seamlessly with all the popular apps for coding, releasing, testing and alerting logs and all the management workflows too.
DevOps Operations are Easy
What do you like best about the product?
Source Code Management, Issue Tracking and Project Management are self hosted process.
What do you dislike about the product?
Costing is too high,Roadmaps are undefinable.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Currently we are storing our Source code inside the Gitlab, and easy to use by command prompt.
Gitlab is strong & cool open-source alternative of Github
What do you like best about the product?
The all-in-one setup is probably its biggest win. You get Git repos, CI/CD, issue tracking, and project management in one place. No jumping between tools. The CI/CD pipeline system is solid once you get it running. The YAML config gives you good control, and the built-in runners work well for most projects. Issue tracking integrates nicely with merge requests. You can link branches to issues automatically, which keeps things organized. GitLab's pretty straightforward to get running. The community edition has good forum support, and paid tiers get direct help. Once your team gets used to it, GitLab becomes the everyday tool for everything.
What do you dislike about the product?
The interface can feel cluttered. There's a lot going on, and finding what you need sometimes takes too many clicks.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Less context switching between tools like Jira, Jenkins, GitHub. Faster setup for new projects because the CI/CD and repo are ready from day one. Easier for the whole team to stay aligned since planning and development are connected. Saves time and reduces errors because everything is integrated and automated in one workflow.
All in one platform for code and project management.
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.
GitLab: A Complete DevOps Platform
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.
Complete DevOps Platform with Powerful CI/CD
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.
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.
Freedom and collaboration without the mess
What do you like best about the product?
Gitlab starts of as feeling like a clone of github. But that misses the point. Gitlab gives you way more freedom to work as you please, to install and run on-premise or work with SaaS in the hosted gitlab.
I'm a bit OCD maybe but "merge request" is more accurate than "pull request" as github calls it. So it feels more 'technically correct'. All the usual integrations exists, very easily links to IntelliJ products, as command line of course still remains there for the die hards. I use gitlab every day, multiple times a day. It's part of my software engineering workflow.
To get started, there's some clicking around to find your way, but it becomes natural to understand when youknow the basics. Especially good are the features to resolve merge conflicts by editing online and running interactive merge tools online, as well as the interactive CI configuration editor.
I'm a bit OCD maybe but "merge request" is more accurate than "pull request" as github calls it. So it feels more 'technically correct'. All the usual integrations exists, very easily links to IntelliJ products, as command line of course still remains there for the die hards. I use gitlab every day, multiple times a day. It's part of my software engineering workflow.
To get started, there's some clicking around to find your way, but it becomes natural to understand when youknow the basics. Especially good are the features to resolve merge conflicts by editing online and running interactive merge tools online, as well as the interactive CI configuration editor.
What do you dislike about the product?
Gitlab is not a slick and "fun" as Github. But it's way better to use than running a "pure git" repository over ssh connection or shared filesystem with your colleagues.
Self-hosted, while that brings it's benefits, can be slow, and combined with the clicking around to figure stuff out, makes it feel a bit clunky. SaaS cloud hosted is much better and faster, but of course you pay for that.
As an "end user" it's easy to get going with gitlab, and there's endless community support as well as customer support. Though you can see some feature requests do lag for a long time until getting resolved.
As an admin, integrating Gitlab could be worse than it is, but it's way better to maintain and operate than doing without it.
Self-hosted, while that brings it's benefits, can be slow, and combined with the clicking around to figure stuff out, makes it feel a bit clunky. SaaS cloud hosted is much better and faster, but of course you pay for that.
As an "end user" it's easy to get going with gitlab, and there's endless community support as well as customer support. Though you can see some feature requests do lag for a long time until getting resolved.
As an admin, integrating Gitlab could be worse than it is, but it's way better to maintain and operate than doing without it.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Gitlab ticks many boxes. Managed software development and version control of course. QA and test automation incuding peer review. This is a really strong point including inline code suggestions to reduce the burden of change and re-review. The CI and CD elements of Gitlab are newer to me, but are super powerful, and once I established a pattern that worked in my company, re-implementing it over multiple projects was then a very quick job.
I am now very happy that my pipeline, after merging can build, release and the deploy new services in one click - fire and forget. And as a bonus optional one-click to deploy a merge request into a dev environment for testing. Really sweet.
I am now very happy that my pipeline, after merging can build, release and the deploy new services in one click - fire and forget. And as a bonus optional one-click to deploy a merge request into a dev environment for testing. Really sweet.
Excellent all-in-one solution for code hosting, CI/CD, and team collaboration
What do you like best about the product?
I appreciate that GitLab provides an all-in-one solution for version control, continuous integration, and project management. The built-in CI/CD features are powerful and easy to set up, and I love being able to track issues, merge requests, and deployments without switching tools. The documentation and community support are also excellent.
What do you dislike about the product?
GitLab is very powerful, but the learning curve can be steep, especially for teams that are new to DevOps tools. Some integrations or third-party apps don’t always work as smoothly as expected, and occasionally there are minor bugs or delays when running pipelines.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
GitLab solves the problem of managing the entire software development lifecycle by bringing everything—code hosting, issue tracking, CI/CD, and code review—into a single platform. This integration has made it much easier for our team to collaborate, automate builds and deployments, and track progress on projects. As a result, we spend less time switching between tools and more time focusing on development.
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