We performed a comparison between GitLab and Spinnaker 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."This is a scalable solution. We had around 200 users working with it."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and deployment."
"I like that you can use GitLab as a double-sided solution for both DevOps and version management. It's a good product for working in these two areas, and the user interface makes it easy to understand."
"The initial setup of GitLab is pretty simple, with no complications."
"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"A user friendly solution."
"GitLab is very useful for pipelines, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. It is also stable."
"The most valuable feature of Spinnaker is the rollback."
"There is a good community around the product that makes troubleshooting possible."
"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required."
"There is a need to improve or adopt AI into the ecosystem like a co-pilot, which Microsoft has done with GitHub."
"The integration and storage capabilities could be better."
"I rate the support from GitLab a four out of five."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"The solution could be faster."
"The solution does not have many built-in functions or variables so scripting is required."
"GitLab's UI could be improved."
"Log-wise, we need to understand why something has failed so that we can understand and try to fix it the moment the issue is reported. The solution could use more robust monitoring."
"Spinnaker's configuration setup is too complicated and should be made easy."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews while Spinnaker is ranked 7th in Release Automation with 2 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Spinnaker is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Spinnaker writes "Good integrations, a helpful user community, and good reliability". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Spinnaker is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, AWS CodeDeploy and UrbanCode Deploy. See our GitLab vs. Spinnaker report.
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