We performed a comparison between AWS CodeBuild 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."It works seamlessly with AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)."
"The solution provides good integrations."
"The integration is a good feature."
"The integration is a good feature."
"The integration with other AWS services has streamlined our workflow."
"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"The solution is stable."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"CI/CD is valuable for me."
"GitLab is very well-organized and easy to use. Also, it offers most features that customers need."
"It is scalable."
"I have found the most valuable features of GitLab are the GitClone, GitPush, GitPull, GitMatch, GitMit, GitCommit, and GitStatus."
"We use the Git repository and tagging feature. We are a product-based company and use this solution to move to a forward or backward tag."
"They can further improve the integration of the Bitbucket for CodeBuild."
"While working on building images for multiple applications within a single script, I encountered an issue where looping functionality was not supported as expected."
"The deployment fails sometimes."
"There is no persistent storage or preservation of workspace between the builds."
"We would like to generate document pages from the sources."
"We'd always like to see better pricing on the product."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"The solution should again offer an on-premises deployment option."
"For as long as I have used GitLab, I haven't encountered any major limitations. However, I think that perhaps the search functionality could be better."
"When deploying the solution on cloud and the CI/CD pipeline, we have to define the steps and it becomes confusing."
"The documentation is confusing."
"I would like to see better integration with project management tools such as Jira."
AWS CodeBuild is ranked 9th in Build Automation with 4 reviews while GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews. AWS CodeBuild is rated 8.8, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of AWS CodeBuild writes "Provides good integrations, is flexible, and has a comparable price". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". AWS CodeBuild is most compared with Jenkins, CircleCI, GitHub Actions, Tekton and AWS CodePipeline, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton. See our AWS CodeBuild vs. GitLab report.
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