We performed a comparison between GitLab and Harness based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about GitLab, Jenkins, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and others in Build Automation."This product is always evolving, and they listen to the customers."
"The solution has an established roadmap that lays out its plans for upgrades over the next two to three years."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"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."
"CI/CD and GitLab scanning are the most valuable features."
"The solution is stable."
"GitLab offers a good interface for doing code reviews between two colleagues."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the CI/CD pipeline and code management."
"It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
"Atlassian offers more products than GitLab. GitLab offers source control management, version control and collaboration between developers. Atlassian offers features on top of this as well as more integration points for developers."
"It can be free for commercial use."
"The only thing our company is really waiting on in terms of features is the development of metrics."
"The integration could be slightly better."
"When deploying the solution on cloud and the CI/CD pipeline, we have to define the steps and it becomes confusing."
"It would be better if there weren't any outages. There are occasions where we usually see a lot of outages using GitLab. It happens at least once a week or something like that. Whatever pipelines you're running, to check the logs, you need to have a different set of tools like Argus or something like that. If you have pipelines running on GitLab, you need a separate service deployed to view the logs, which is kind of a pain. If the logs can be used conveniently on GitLab, that would be definitely helpful. I'm not talking about the CI/CD pipelines but the back-end services and microservices deployed over GitLab. To view the logs for those microservices, you need to have separate log viewers, which is kind of a pain."
"I would like to see security increased in the future. A secure environment is very important."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"There's also room for improvement in debugging pipeline issues, which can sometimes become complex."
GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews while Harness is ranked 8th in Build Automation with 1 review. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Harness is rated 7.0. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Harness writes "Provides a good graphical interface, but the initial setup process needs improvement ". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Harness is most compared with Tekton, Jenkins, Bamboo, TeamCity and AWS CodePipeline.
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