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 integration with other AWS services has streamlined our workflow."
"The solution provides good integrations."
"It works seamlessly with AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR)."
"The integration is a good feature."
"The integration is a good feature."
"The solution has an established roadmap that lays out its plans for upgrades over the next two to three years."
"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"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."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is the automatic merging of code."
"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."
"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 most valuable features of GitLab are the CI/CD pipeline and code management."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are ease of use and highly intuitive UI and performance."
"There is no persistent storage or preservation of workspace between the builds."
"They can further improve the integration of the Bitbucket for CodeBuild."
"The deployment fails sometimes."
"While working on building images for multiple applications within a single script, I encountered an issue where looping functionality was not supported as expected."
"GitLab could consider introducing a code-scanning tool. Purchasing such tools from external markets can incur charges, which might not be favorable. Integrating these features into GitLab would streamline the pipeline and make it more convenient for users."
"The initial setup was quite challenging because it takes some time to understand how to pull out or push the code."
"The solution could improve by providing more integration into the CI/CD pipeline, an autocomplete search tool, and more supporting documentation."
"When deploying the solution on cloud and the CI/CD pipeline, we have to define the steps and it becomes confusing."
"The only thing our company is really waiting on in terms of features is the development of metrics."
"We have only seen a couple of issues on Gitlab, which we use for building some of the applications."
"The tool should include a feature that helps to edit the code directly."
"The integration and storage capabilities could be better."
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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