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."As a developer, this solution is useful as a repository holder because most of the POC projects that we have are on GitLab."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are ease of use and highly intuitive UI and performance."
"The solution has an established roadmap that lays out its plans for upgrades over the next two to three years."
"GitLab is being used as a repository for our codebase and it is a one stop DevOps tool we use in our team."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"It is scalable."
"GitLab's best features are continuous integration and fast deployment."
"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."
"Deployment is valuable. It deploys well."
"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."
"It's more related to the supporting layer of features, such as issue management and issue tracking. We tend to always use, for example, Jira next to it. That doesn't mean that GitLab should build something similar to Jira because that will always have its place, but they could grow a bit in those kinds of supporting features. I see some, for example, covering ITSM on a DevOps team level, and that's one of the things that I and my current client would find really helpful. It's understandably not going to be their main focus and their core, and whenever you are with a company that needs a bit more advanced features on that specific topic, you're probably still going to integrate with another tool like Jira Service Management, for example. However, some basic features on things like that could be really helpful."
"GitLab can improve the integration with third-party applications. It could be made easier. Additionally, having API control from my application could be helpful."
"Some of the scripts that we encountered in GitLab were not fully functional and threw up errors."
"I would like to have some features to support peer review."
"I believe there's room for improvement in the advanced features, particularly in enhancing the pipeline functionalities."
"As a partner, sometimes it's difficult to get support. They have a really complicated procedure for their support."
"We are having a few problems integrating with Jira at the moment, which is something that our IT department is investigating."
"GitLab could add a plugin to integrate with Kubernetes stuff."
"There could be scope for more integration with other platforms."
"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."
"This solution could be improved by making it easier to divide variables in YAML file or JSON files."
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, SonarQube, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline and Tekton, whereas Octopus Deploy is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, UrbanCode Deploy and AWS CodeDeploy. See our GitLab vs. Octopus Deploy report.
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