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."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."
"It works seamlessly with AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)."
"As a developer, this solution is useful as a repository holder because most of the POC projects that we have are on GitLab."
"I like GitLab's security and SAS tools."
"It is very flexible and easy because you can store data on cloud."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"The best thing is that as the developers work on separate tasks, all of the code goes there and the other team members don't have to wait on each other to finish."
"The most valuable features of Gitlab are integration with CIE and the ability to rapidly deploy solutions, projects, and applications. It is very easy to use, and there are no complaints."
"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."
"The solution's service delivery model is fantastic."
"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."
"I've noticed an area for improvement in GitLab, particularly needing to go through many steps to push the code to the repository. Resolving that issue would make the product better. My team quickly fixed it by writing a small script, then double-clicking or enabling the script to take care of the issue. However, that quick fix was from my team and not the GitLab team, so in the next release, if an automatic deployment feature would be available in GitLab, then that would be good because, in Visual Studio, you can do that with just one click of a button."
"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."
"We would like to generate document pages from the sources."
"It would be really good if they integrated more features in application security."
"In the free version, when a merge request is raised, there is no way to enforce certain rules. We can't enforce that this merge request must be reviewed or approved by two or three people in the team before it is pushed to the master branch. That's why we are exploring using some agents."
"Expand features to match other tools such as a static code analysis tool so third-party integrations are not required."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"Merge conflicts and repository maintenance could improve. If there is someone new to the system they would not know if there is a conflict."
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, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton. See our AWS CodeBuild vs. GitLab report.
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