We performed a comparison between Automic Continuous Delivery Automation and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Release Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."I would say our headwind, or our time to market, is reduced considerably. We get more consistent results out of it, because you write one time and once it's automated you expect it to behave the same way every time. And it cut down a lot of re-work for us."
"It is an umbrella system that allows us to integrate many different systems into our heterogeneous environment."
"It can support very complex environments and dependencies."
"The capability to provide visibility to the stakeholders, to management, is the biggest piece that showcases what the solution is about."
"It provides a wonderful user interface which is easy to use."
"The event monitor is very good. You can monitor when the file is created so you can pick up the file once it's done."
"The metrics gathered after deployment, for example, the rate of success versus the rate of failure."
"The main benefit is you can deploy everything with it."
"The important feature is the entire process of versioning source code maintenance and easy deployment. It is a necessity for the CI/CD pipeline."
"We like that we can create branches and then the branches can be reviewed and you can mesh those branches back. You can independently work with your own branch, you don't need to really control the core of other people."
"It is scalable."
"Everything is easy to configure and easy to work with."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are ease of use and highly intuitive UI and performance."
"The solution is stable."
"This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the CI/CD pipeline and code management."
"If you have a technical problem and need development of the tool, the support team is terrible, because they cannot help with the technical details."
"The dashboard should allow you to see the current state of packages in each environment, not only on an individual application basis, but across the entire application platform."
"One of the biggest features I've been asked by my team to put in there is opening more scripting languages to be part of the platform. There is a little bit of a learning curve in learning how to code some of the workflows in Automic at this time. If widely used languages like Perl and Python were integrated, on top of what's already there, the proprietary language, it would make it easier to on-board new resources."
"key thing is support for cloud-based deployment. That is lacking."
"It would be very beneficial for us to see integrations into cloud environments, especially into the Google Cloud environment because we are heading towards cloud."
"Not a perfect ten because the user interface is brand new and it needs improvement."
"There is an issue with the stability in the tool. The process of agent will stop, then the monitoring agent can't be recognized because the process is running, but you can talk with the system."
"I would like to see more support for WebSphere."
"It is a little complex to set up the pipelines within the solution."
"I would like to see security increased in the future. A secure environment is very important."
"This solution could be improved by adding modifications such as slack notifications."
"GitLab's UI could be improved."
"The integration and storage capabilities could be better."
"We would like to have easier tutorials. Their tutorials are too technical for a user to understand. They should be more detailed but less technical."
"The pricing model of GitLab is an issue for me."
"There is a need to improve or adopt AI into the ecosystem like a co-pilot, which Microsoft has done with GitHub."
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Automic Continuous Delivery Automation is ranked 17th in Release Automation while GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews. Automic Continuous Delivery Automation is rated 8.0, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Automic Continuous Delivery Automation writes "Reduces our time to market considerably with automated and consistent results". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Automic Continuous Delivery Automation is most compared with , whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our Automic Continuous Delivery Automation vs. GitLab report.
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