We performed a comparison between GitLab and UrbanCode Deploy based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, GitLab, Red Hat and others in Release Automation."We're only using the basic features of GitLab and haven't used any advanced features. The solution works fine, so that's what we like about GitLab. We're party using GitHub and GitLab. We have a GitHub server, while we use GitLab locally or only within our team, and it works okay. We don't have any significant problems with the solution. We also found the straightforward setup, stability, and scalability of GitLab valuable."
"The solution's service delivery model is fantastic."
"The user interface is really good so that helps with huge teams who need to collaborate."
"It is very useful for reviews. We are using branch merging operations and full reset operations. It is also very useful for merging our code and tracking another branch. The graph diagrams of Git are very useful. Its interface is straightforward and not too complex for us."
"I like GitLab from the CI/CD perspective. It is much easier to set up CI/CD and then integrate with other tools."
"GitLab is kind of an image of GitHub, so it gives us the flexibility to monitor our changes in the repos."
"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"I have found the most valuable feature is security control. I also like the branching and cloning software."
"The most valuable functionality is the ability to define the deployment process, schedule the deployment and automatically execute the deployments to different environments."
"Stable solution that's good for automating the CI/CD pipeline: from development to production."
"The most valuable feature is the snapshot functionality, which allows us to access previous versions of the artifacts."
"It is very easy to make a software release. It used to take us at least a couple of hours to make a release, now we went to production with a new one last night. This new release took me five minutes."
"The solution handles complex deployments very efficiently."
"The stability is good. I haven't experienced any issues."
"The integration and storage capabilities could be better."
"We would like to generate document pages from the sources."
"The pricing model of GitLab is an issue for me."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly. We do most of our operations through the website interface but it could be better."
"The documentation could be improved to help newcomers better understand things like creating new branches."
"The tool should include a feature that helps to edit the code directly."
"We do face issues in our company when we run out of disk space."
"There was a problem with the build environment when we were looking at developing iOS applications. iOS build require Mac machines and there are no Mac machines provided by GitLab in their cloud. So to build for mobile iOS application, we needed to use our own Mac machine within our own infrastructure. If GitLab were to provide a feature such that an iOS application could also be built through GitLab directly, that would be great."
"I certainly would like to have a better way to pass information between deployment steps using UrbanCode Deploy because that's really difficult to do."
"The scalability of this application needs improvement. Changes and variations in the application become bottlenecks as they need to be more seamless and comfortable."
"The interface allows access in a number of ways but that can be confusing."
"I would like to see more reporting for container architecture."
"The technical support of the solution could definitely be improved as PMRs take long to resolve."
"I would like to have the agent up and running at all times, as opposed to only while it is in the DevOps pipeline."
GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews while UrbanCode Deploy is ranked 6th in Release Automation with 27 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while UrbanCode Deploy is rated 7.8. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of UrbanCode Deploy writes "It offers OOTB plugins for middleware". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, whereas UrbanCode Deploy is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Octopus Deploy, HCL Launch and BMC Release Lifecycle Management.
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