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."GitLab is kind of an image of GitHub, so it gives us the flexibility to monitor our changes in the repos."
"GitLab is being used as a repository for our codebase and it is a one stop DevOps tool we use in our team."
"The merging feature makes it easy later on for the deployment."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"It's a great toolbox where the CI/CD pipeline is the fundamental component, but there are so many other features that you can pull from, which makes it a very powerful tool. My current client is using AWS, and they can, of course, use AWS CodePipeline, but GitLab is much more mature than that, and it also gives you the freedom to decide to go to another platform or have a multi-cloud strategy and things like that. That freedom for me is also very valuable."
"CI/CD is valuable for me."
"It speeds up our development, it's faster, safer, and more convenient."
"Git hosting has an integration with ACD which is why we liked this solution in the first place."
"It's a highly customizable DevOps tool."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"I used Spring Cloud config and to connect that to GitLab was so hard."
"Merge conflicts and repository maintenance could improve. If there is someone new to the system they would not know if there is a conflict."
"I would like to see better integration with project management tools such as Jira."
"Even if I say I want some improvement, they will say it is already planned in the first quarter, second quarter, or third quarter. That said, most everything is quite improved already, and they're improving even further still."
"I would like more Agile features in the Premium version. The Premium version should have all Agile features that exist in the Ultimate version. IBM AOM has a complete Agile implementation, but in GitLab, you only have these features if you buy the Ultimate version. It would be good if we can use these in the Premium version."
"I would like to see security increased in the future. A secure environment is very important."
"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."
"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, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Harness is most compared with Tekton, Jenkins, Bamboo, GitHub Actions and AWS CodePipeline.
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