We performed a comparison between Bamboo and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two Build Automation solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI."One of the big things that made us choose Bamboo, is it seamlessly integrates its APIs into NetSuite, which is our main ELP system."
"The most valuable features of Bamboo are its performance and UI. Additionally, there are a lot of useful plugins, integration with other solutions, such as Bitbucket and Jira, and a helpful online community."
"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."
"Bamboo's integration with the rest of Atlassian's tech tools, like Jira, helps manage the end-to-end development and release process."
"It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services."
"The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration."
"The most useful feature of Bamboo is its integration with other solutions such as Jira and BitBucket, also offered by Atlassian. It is easier to use tools all provided by one vendor."
"One of the significant benefits of Bamboo is its built-in support for numerous clients and the ability to tailor its capabilities to your specific requirements. This high level of customization enables you to create pipelines that are ideally suited to your needs, making it an invaluable tool for conducting advanced testing."
"Everything is easy to configure and easy to work with."
"I find the features and version control history to be most valuable for our development workflow. These aspects provide us with a clear view of changes and help us manage requests efficiently."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"As a developer, this solution is useful as a repository holder because most of the POC projects that we have are on GitLab."
"It is very useful for reviews. We are using branch merging operations and full reset operations. It is also very useful for merging our code and tracking another branch. The graph diagrams of Git are very useful. Its interface is straightforward and not too complex for us."
"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."
"GitLab is being used as a repository for our codebase and it is a one stop DevOps tool we use in our team."
"CI/CD is valuable for me."
"The solution needs to support more customization in the training. What's offered is pretty generic. They need better training and should offer more guidance."
"The performance around the deployment feature could be improved."
"Scalability depends on the use case. If it is really a big customer with a lot of tests, it might not be a scalable option for them."
"Bamboo could improve by having compatibility with GitLab. It would be better to have this platform for deploying code and storing container registries. Bamboo does not have a container registry. Additionally, there could be more features added."
"It would be great if Bamboo could introduce a more containerized deployment model."
"Bamboo is a bit complicated to use compared to other solutions, such as GitLab. You have to integrate different actions that are difficult that could be made easier."
"Bamboo’s technical support services, in terms of speed of response, need improvement."
"It's a little outdated. It's three years old."
"It would be really good if they integrated more features in application security."
"The solution could be faster."
"It should be used by a larger number of people. They should raise awareness."
"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."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly. We do most of our operations through the website interface but it could be better."
"GitLab's Windows version is yet not available and having this would be an improvement."
"Perhaps the integration could be better."
Bamboo is ranked 5th in Build Automation with 20 reviews while GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews. Bamboo is rated 7.4, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Bamboo writes "High availability, helpful support, and plenty of plugins available". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Bamboo is most compared with Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Harness, Tekton and AWS CodePipeline, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline, Tekton and TeamCity. See our Bamboo vs. GitLab report.
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