We compared GitLab and Tekton based on our user's reviews in several parameters.
Users find GitLab to offer competitive pricing, flexible licensing options, and positive ROI, with room for improvement in user interface, speed, and performance. They appreciate robust version control features and strong customer support. On the other hand, Tekton is praised for its ease of use, reliable customer service, and seamless integration, with users highlighting the customizable features and positive impact on productivity and efficiency. Both tools have varying feedback on the time required for deployment and setup, showing differences in user experiences.
Features: GitLab stands out with its robust version control capabilities, comprehensive issue tracking system, and seamless collaboration tools. On the other hand, Tekton excels in its ease of use, extensive customization options, and great reliability.
Pricing and ROI: In terms of setup cost, users find both GitLab and Tekton to be easy and straightforward. GitLab offers flexible licensing options for individuals and businesses, while Tekton users have not expressed any difficulties or dissatisfaction with licensing., The ROI for GitLab has been positively rewarding, providing users with valuable investment for their projects. Tekton has also shown positive ROI, improving productivity, efficiency, accuracy, cost savings, and customer satisfaction. Users appreciate its versatility and ease of use.
Room for Improvement: Some areas for improvement in the GitLab product include its user interface and navigation, performance and speed for larger projects, project management features, and the code review process. Meanwhile, users of Tekton expressed the need for improvements in certain aspects of the product.
Deployment and customer support: The user reviews for GitLab and Tekton differ in terms of how they define and separate the deployment and setup phases. Some users see them as separate phases, while others consider them as the same period., In terms of customer service and support, GitLab's product is highly praised for its prompt assistance, effective troubleshooting, and helpful guidance. They are known for going above and beyond to resolve issues and have a strong community. On the other hand, Tekton's customer service is also highly praised for its promptness, helpfulness, reliability, and efficiency. Both products ensure a positive experience for customers.
The summary above is based on 53 interviews we conducted recently with GitLab and Tekton users. To access the review's full transcripts, download our report.
"The most valuable functionality of GitLab, for me, is the DevOps. Besides the normal source control based on Git, I find the Auto DevOps features most important in the solution."
"The dashboard and interface make it easy to use."
"The tool helps to integrate CI/CD pipeline deployments. It is very easy to learn. Its security model is good."
"Their CI/CD engine is very mature. It's very comprehensive and flexible, and compared to other projects, I believe that GitLab is number one right now from that perspective."
"The SaaS setup is impressive, and it has DAST solutioning."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the review, patch repo, and plans are in YAML."
"We like that we can create branches and then the branches can be reviewed and you can mesh those branches back. You can independently work with your own branch, you don't need to really control the core of other people."
"Tekton is serverless and runs on OpenShift, and we leverage Tekton to take full advantage of the Kubernetes features such as running and scaling the solution in PaaS."
"Tekton is an orchestrator. It provides seamless integration for our pipelines. It offers robust support for executing tasks within the pipeline, allowing us to set up and run pipelines quickly."
"Its seamless integration with Kubernetes, being built on top of it and utilizing Custom Resource Definitions, ensures a smooth experience within Kubernetes environments exclusively."
"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."
"We'd like to see better integration with the Atlassian ecosystem."
"GitLab doesn't have AWS integration. It would be better to have integration with other container management environments beyond Kubernetes. It has very good integration with Kubernetes, but it doesn't have good integration with, for example, AWS, ETS, etc."
"I don't really like the new Kubernetes integration because it is pretty focused on the on-premise environment, but we're in a hybrid environment."
"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 pricing model of GitLab is an issue for me."
"I would like to see static analysis also embedded in GitLab. That would also help us. If there's something that it does internally by GitLab and then that is already tied up with your pipeline and then it can tell you that you're coding is good or your code is not great. Based on that, it would pass or fail. That should be streamlined. I would think that would help to a greater extent, in terms of having one solution rather than depending on multiple vendors."
"We do face issues in our company when we run out of disk space."
"Configuring Tekton requires a deep understanding of Kubernetes, which can be difficult for developers."
"There might be occasional issues with storage or cluster-level logging, which can affect production."
"It tends to occupy a significant amount of disk space on the node, which could potentially pose challenges."
GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 70 reviews while Tekton is ranked 4th in Build Automation with 3 reviews. GitLab is rated 8.6, while Tekton is rated 6.4. The top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". On the other hand, the top reviewer of Tekton writes "Provides seamless integration for pipelines, allowing easy setup and execution of tasks but working with YAML files in Tekton can be challenging to modify ". GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, SonarQube, AWS CodePipeline and TeamCity, whereas Tekton is most compared with GitHub Actions, Travis CI, Harness, Jenkins and CircleCI. See our GitLab vs. Tekton report.
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