We performed a comparison between GitLab and Octopus Deploy 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."CI/CD and GitLab scanning are the most valuable features."
"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."
"It is a speedy platform compared to the others I have used. I have also enjoyed using the platform as this solution offers a good user experience."
"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."
"Key features allow creation of well-presented Wiki that includes ideas, development, and domains."
"The stability is good."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are ease of use and highly intuitive UI and performance."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"The UI is very intuitive."
"The rollback feature has been most valuable. We can write scripts from scratch. Octopus maintains an independent package for every deployment."
"Deployment is valuable. It deploys well."
"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."
"As GitLab is not perfect, what needs improvement in the solution is the Wiki feature of the groups or the repertories because currently, it's not searchable by default. You'll need an indexing service such as Elasticsearch to make it searchable, and that requires too much work, so for me, it's the main feature that should be improved in GitLab. In the next version of the solution, from the top of my head, the documentation could be improved. Besides the Wiki, it would be good if there's documentation that would be automatically generated based on the code repository. In other words, there should be some tutorials from GitLab for developers in the next release."
"It is a little complex to set up the pipelines within the solution."
"GitLab can improve by integrating with more tools, such as servers with Docker."
"The integration could be slightly better."
"The tool should include a feature that helps to edit the code directly."
"GitLab can improve the integration with third-party applications. It could be made easier. Additionally, having API control from my application could be helpful."
"It would be really good if they integrated more features in application security."
"This solution could be improved by making it easier to divide variables in YAML file or JSON files."
"You've got to jump through a few hoops to get some things configured, but if set up, you can do so many different things in it. So, there is complexity."
"There could be scope for more integration with other platforms."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews while Octopus Deploy is ranked 8th in Release Automation with 3 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Octopus Deploy is rated 8.0. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Octopus Deploy writes "Easy to set up with intuitive UI and good reliability". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Octopus Deploy is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, UrbanCode Deploy, AWS CodeDeploy and Spinnaker. See our GitLab vs. Octopus Deploy report.
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