We performed a comparison between Automic Continuous Delivery Director and GitLab based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about Microsoft, GitLab, Red Hat and others in Release Automation."The most valuable feature for me is the fact that you can easily design a pipeline to promote applications from a development environment up to a production environment, and the team can become autonomous in designing those pipelines."
"Its extensive range of available connectors eliminates the need for manual code writing when implementing solutions, thus reducing coding efforts."
"CDD is primarily used for showing end users (managers, business teams, project managers, and release managers) what is happening with each release. The status and reporting features are very important. Automation reduces time to deploy. It also allows us to do more with releases and testing prior to production, better guaranteeing a smooth deployment."
"Its ability to automate release deployments, streamline release scope, and reduce the cost of and time for deployment."
"The most valuable features of Automic Continuous Delivery Director are the UI, release planning, and tracking, and you can do your soft and hard freeze through CDP."
"The second valuable aspect is its capability to drive external systems like deployment automation engines or to integrate with Agile Central."
"Of all available products, it was the easiest to use and easy to install."
"GitLab is a solution for source code management, container registry, pipelines, testing, and 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."
"We have seen a couple of merge requests or pull requests raised in GitLab. I see the interface, the way it shows the difference between the two source codes, that it is easy for anyone to do the review and then accept the request; the pull request is the valuable feature."
"The most valuable features of GitLab are the review, patch repo, and plans are in YAML."
"I have had no problem with the stability of the solution."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its security."
"The scalability is good."
"Automic Continuous Delivery Director can improve the integrations. We have 25 but would like more."
"CDD and RA should be two modules in the same product. They do not automatically “talk” to each other. and they require endpoint definition."
"Reporting and dashboarding could be improved. Release pipelines should be creatable via templates as well as easily integrable/chained together. Visual navigation could also be improved when the pipelines become too large."
"The product's development has been stopped. It focuses on maintaining existing products."
"We have rolled out the SAFe model, but what we would like to have is better integration with Agile Central, for instance, or at least at the plugin level, where we would select only certain stories instead of many stories in the sprint."
"We would like to have a more user-friendly interface. It is already very friendly, but as soon as you start to have many applications with many tasks, the applications should be easier to manipulate on the screen."
"This solution could be improved by adding modifications such as slack notifications."
"The solution should be more cloud-native and have more cloud-native capabilities and features."
"The solution could be faster."
"The user interface could be more user-friendly. We do most of our operations through the website interface but it could be better."
"It would be really good if they integrated more features in application security."
"It can be free for commercial use."
"Based on what I know so far, its integration with Kubernetes is not so good. We have to develop many things to make it work. We have to acquire third-party components to work with Kubernetes."
"Even if I say I want some improvement, they will say it is already planned in the first quarter, second quarter, or third quarter. That said, most everything is quite improved already, and they're improving even further still."
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Automic Continuous Delivery Director is ranked 15th in Release Automation with 5 reviews while GitLab is ranked 2nd in Release Automation with 70 reviews. Automic Continuous Delivery Director is rated 8.0, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Automic Continuous Delivery Director writes "An automation solution to automate the entire release process but lacks development". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Automic Continuous Delivery Director is most compared with , whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, Bamboo, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube and Tekton.
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