We performed a comparison between AWS CodeDeploy 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."You can easily integrate AWS CodeDeploy with multiple services."
"The product's initial setup phase is easy."
"The product is easy to use."
"It is very flexible."
"It's just like every other AWS resource I use. It gets the job done."
"AWS CodeDeploy operates on an on-demand basis. This means that you only pay for the exact duration of the deployment process. Whether it takes one minute, two minutes, or even longer, you're only charged for the time it takes to complete the deployment. You're not locked into paying for dedicated servers."
"I found the default settings of AWS CodeDeploy to be highly beneficial for my deployment workflows. For instance, when deploying a Node.js application, I manually installed the necessary components on my AWS instance, such as the web server required by developers. Then, I created deployment scripts for starting and stopping instances and performing the deployment itself. These scripts were stored alongside my code in GitHub, ensuring they executed seamlessly with the CI/CD pipeline. Since the project wasn't overly complex, I opted for the default settings, which proved to be efficient and straightforward for deployment."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and deployment."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its security."
"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are ease of use and highly intuitive UI and performance."
"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"I like GitLab from the CI/CD perspective. It is much easier to set up CI/CD and then integrate with other tools."
"Everything is easy to configure and easy to work with."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the CI/CD pipeline and code management."
"I faced some stability issues."
"AWS should provide its own templates in the console so that I don't need to go anywhere else to get the template for AWS CodeDeploy or AWS CodeBuild."
"We have faced some issues and bugs along the way when it comes to stability."
"Deployment and stability should be improved."
"Improvements could be made to AWS CodeDeploy in terms of its agent's compatibility across different operating systems. Currently, there are instances where the agent may not work seamlessly with certain integrations, leading to issues with registering protocols on authorized servers."
"AWS CodeDeploy doesn't provide multiple plugins like Jenkins, which is a shortcoming where improvements are required."
"Perhaps the integration could be better."
"GitLab could improve the patch repository. It does not have support for Conan patch version regions. Additionally, better support for Kubernetes deployment is needed as part of the package."
"We'd always like to see better pricing on the product."
"Based on what I know so far, its integration with Kubernetes is not so good. We have to develop many things to make it work. We have to acquire third-party components to work with Kubernetes."
"GitLab doesn't have AWS integration. It would be better to have integration with other container management environments beyond Kubernetes. It has very good integration with Kubernetes, but it doesn't have good integration with, for example, AWS, ETS, etc."
"I would like to see better integration with project management tools such as Jira."
"I would like to have some features to support peer review."
"GitLab could improve by having more plugins and better user-friendliness."
AWS CodeDeploy is ranked 4th in Release Automation with 7 reviews while GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews. AWS CodeDeploy is rated 8.4, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS CodeDeploy writes "The default settings of AWS CodeDeploy are highly beneficial for my deployment workflows". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". AWS CodeDeploy is most compared with AWS Amplify, AWS CodeStar, Microsoft Azure DevOps and Octopus Deploy, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our AWS CodeDeploy vs. GitLab report.
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