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."A user friendly solution."
"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."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and deployment."
"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."
"CI/CD and GitLab scanning are the most valuable features."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the automatic merging of code."
"I have had no problem with the stability of the solution."
"CI/CD is valuable for me."
"There is a good community around the product that makes troubleshooting possible."
"The most valuable feature of Spinnaker is the rollback."
"The documentation is confusing."
"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 tool should include a feature that helps to edit the code directly."
"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."
"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required."
"GitLab can improve the integration with third-party applications. It could be made easier. Additionally, having API control from my application could be helpful."
"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."
"We'd always like to see better pricing on the product."
"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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