We performed a comparison between Bamboo 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."It can do the CI pipeline well."
"The most valuable feature of Bamboo is that it is a good tool for CI/CD integration."
"In Bamboo, build and deployment have been segregated. The build plan and deployment plan are different. When comparing Bamboo to other solutions, the native feature you will not find in another tool, such as Jenkins. They have segregated the build and deployment plan. This means, building the application and deploying it are two separate parts in Bamboo, they have segregated it apart from the UI. This makes the tool a bit better compared to other tools."
"One of the significant benefits of Bamboo is its built-in support for numerous clients and the ability to tailor its capabilities to your specific requirements. This high level of customization enables you to create pipelines that are ideally suited to your needs, making it an invaluable tool for conducting advanced testing."
"The most valuable features are compiling and deployment."
"In my experience Bamboo is scalable."
"The platform helps us with automated and timely backup. It provides data replication as well."
"It's one of the best solutions in this line of work. We have many Atlassian products. We use Bamboo, JIRA, Service Desk, and some other Atlassian plugins. We like that it's easy to integrate into each other. It's a suite of services."
"The most valuable feature of GitLab is its convenience. I am able to trace back most of my changes up to a far distance in time and it helps me to analyze and see the older version of the code."
"I have had no problem with the stability of the solution."
"We like that we can have an all-encompassing product and don't have to implement different solutions."
"The user interface is really good so that helps with huge teams who need to collaborate."
"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."
"GitLab's best feature is Actions."
"It scales well."
"The marketing strategy of Bamboo is an area of concern where improvements are needed."
"It's a little outdated. It's three years old."
"Bamboo is a bit complicated to use compared to other solutions, such as GitLab. You have to integrate different actions that are difficult that could be made easier."
"It would be great if Bamboo could introduce a more containerized deployment model."
"The performance around the deployment feature could be improved."
"It should be much easier to use. It shouldn't require a lot of reading to be able to use it. It should have just two or three screens rather than hundreds of screens requiring a lot of clicking. It also requires a lot of integration. It has a steep learning curve. It takes a lot of time to understand and put in the data. There is also no proper training."
"The solution needs to support more customization in the training. What's offered is pretty generic. They need better training and should offer more guidance."
"Bamboo can improve by providing more with scripting, such as they have with Jenkins. Bamboo is more UI-driven at this time, Jenkins is going in that direction too."
"This solution could be improved by adding modifications such as slack notifications."
"I rate the support from GitLab a four out of five."
"The tool should include a feature that helps to edit the code directly."
"We would like to have easier tutorials. Their tutorials are too technical for a user to understand. They should be more detailed but less technical."
"As GitLab is not perfect, what needs improvement in the solution is the Wiki feature of the groups or the repertories because currently, it's not searchable by default. You'll need an indexing service such as Elasticsearch to make it searchable, and that requires too much work, so for me, it's the main feature that should be improved in GitLab. In the next version of the solution, from the top of my head, the documentation could be improved. Besides the Wiki, it would be good if there's documentation that would be automatically generated based on the code repository. In other words, there should be some tutorials from GitLab for developers in the next release."
"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."
"I'm new to GitLab, so I would appreciate more documentation about the code and commands."
"The only thing our company is really waiting on in terms of features is the development of metrics."
Bamboo is ranked 5th in Build Automation with 6 reviews while GitLab is ranked 1st in Build Automation with 49 reviews. Bamboo is rated 7.4, while GitLab is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Bamboo writes "Useful connector marketplace, customizable, and highly scalable". On the other hand, the top reviewer of GitLab writes "Powerful, mature, and easy to set up and manage". Bamboo is most compared with Jenkins, Tekton, Harness, GitHub Actions and Microsoft Azure, whereas GitLab is most compared with Microsoft Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, SonarQube, Tekton and TeamCity. See our Bamboo vs. GitLab report.
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